Valve posted a statement on the New York lootbox lawsuit

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• GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A few points from the reply:

  NYAG proposes to take away users’ ability to transfer their digital items from Valve games. Transferability is a right we believe should not be taken away, and we refuse to do that.

  They probably don’t want to remove it because they get a cut of each sale, but I do appreciate the option to sell old items.

  And, what people actually care about:

  The NYAG also proposed to gather additional information (beyond what we normally collect in the course of processing payments) about each game user on the off-chance someone in New York was anonymizing their location to appear outside of New York, such as by using a VPN. This would have involved implementing invasive technologies for every user worldwide. Similarly, the NYAG demanded that Valve collect more personal data about our users to do additional age verification—even though most payment methods used by New York Steam users already have age verification built-in.

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