MudMan@fedia.io 4 days ago
Said this elsewhere, but it seems to me a bigger story that it also mandates age verification for 18 plus content, including porn and at the platform level.
Steam needs to verify your age now if it wants to carry porn games.
And I do have problems with loot boxes, in that it doesn't qualify the boxes having to be paid, so technically Diablo II should be a 18+ game, along with every single RPG in existence. I have to assume courts or downstream definitions will do a sanity check on that, because the law they passed makes zero qualifiers, it just says "loot boxes".
So... maybe look into what they passed before being too celebratory about it?
Goodeye8@piefed.social 4 days ago
I had to translate the law but it does seem to define lootboxes as something you purchase. But legal texts are very specifically worded so I can’t be sure some nuance didn’t get lost in translation.
MudMan@fedia.io 4 days ago
I wrote a first response referencing the one mention I had found of loot boxes, but you are correct, I missed that they did include one in the definitions section.
So yeah, you are right, they do define it as paid. Carry on.
MudMan@fedia.io 4 days ago
Not as far as I can tell. This translates to "Loot boxes offered in electronic games aimed at children and teenagers or likely to be accessed by them, in the terms of the corresponding age rating".
You can argue that "offered" here specifically implies "offered for purchase", but... I mean, my Brazilian Portuguese isn't perfect, but I don't think that's explicitly the case, the word means what you think it means in English. It'd be a problem of hermeneutics at that point.