Sentences with phrase «regulate loot boxes»

There's no word from the Google Play Store if it will regulate loot boxes similarly.

State senator wants to regulate loot boxes in Washington and proposed a bill for the gambling commission to study their effects.

Chris Hansford, the director of Consumers for Digital Fairness, a not - for - profit advocacy group lobbying governments in the US to regulate loot boxes, hopes Hawaii and Washington are the first of many states to follow.

If lawmakers go ahead and regulate loot boxes, I wonder how that will affect the various genres of games that depend on them, and whether we'll end up with something better or not.

Ranker said that the industry needs to figure out how to regulate loot boxes because it's unacceptable to have «predatory gambling masked in a game with dancing bunnies or something» (I'm pretty sure those bunnies feel unfairly singled out right now).

Now multiple countries are seeking to regulate loot boxes and virtual gambling, hopefully we'll see more progress on it in 2018.

Germany's USK rating board hasn't weighed in yet, but PEGI operations director Dirk Bosmans said in October last year that he believes it holds the same position: That «we can not define what constitutes gambling,» and therefore can not regulate loot boxes as such.

If lawmakers go ahead and regulate loot boxes, I wonder how that will affect the various genres of games that depend on them, and whether we'll end up with something better or not.

Ranker said that the industry needs to figure out how to regulate loot boxes because it's unacceptable to have «predatory gambling masked in a game with dancing bunnies or something» (I'm pretty sure those bunnies feel unfairly singled out right now)...

While we can easily share the concern on the potential classification of a «gaming disorder» by the World Health Organization or the possible bans faced by Augmented Reality games and apps, we can not say the same over the attempts at regulating loot boxes made, for example, by Hawaii State representatives Chris Lee and Sean Quinlan.

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Ever since then, lawmakers throughout the world have taken steps towards regulating games with loot boxes.

With more and more countries, agencies and government bodies rushing to have their say on loot boxes, it may be wiser for developers to just remove the darn things before the suits regulate them out of existence.

In a new blog post, the analytics firm argues that «the loot box controversy hampered Star Wars Battlefront II out of the gate» as shown by the game's monthly active users compared to its predecessor's, and that the resulting dumpster fire has caused publishers to rethink lootboxes and self - regulate or at least modulate their greed — an effect we've already seen in the MMO industry too.

But, we can see similarities between the way loot boxes affect players and how Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) operate and are regulated in the UK.

There were no loving alohas for loot boxes, with as much as four Senate and House bills proposed, regulating the sales and marketing of games that contain electronic gambling systems.

Now in a some - would - say - uncharacteristic and admirable display of follow - through, Hawaii has introduced bills that seek to regulate and possibly out - right ban the sale of games featuring loot boxes to minors.

One of the biggest stories of 2017 related to Star Wars video games (apart from the loot box fiasco that now has legislators looking into regulating premium loot boxes in commercial AAA games) and the unforeseen revival of Pandemic's 2005 outing of Star Wars: Battlefront 2.

Predatory loot boxes has become a serious issue in a lot of regions, with some regulatory bodies stepping in to classify and regulate them as gambling services.