Agent_KaryoFeb 26

New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes

The lawsuit aims to β€œstop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws.”

New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes

The lawsuit aims to "stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York’s laws."

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Show threadπ•²π–‘π–Žπ–™π–ˆπ–πŸ”»π•―π–ƒ (he/him)Feb 26

On the one hand, good. Valve needs to be held responsible for this.

On the other hand, steam has the best parental controls of any platform I’ve ever seen. You can just not let your kid play those games. Parents should take responsibility for their kids. Games already have ratings and warnings and such.

On the third hand, I forsee this as being yet another means of forcing ID checks and face scanning into the platform. I don’t trust our government not to fuck this up in the worst way possible right now.

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ID checks are a solution used when there are different rules for both adults and children. I don’t see how that would apply here, since the rules in NY appear to be the same in this case.
Feb 26 at 10:44amWeb
Show threadπ•²π–‘π–Žπ–™π–ˆπ–πŸ”»π•―π–ƒ (he/him)5d ago

I am not physically walking into a liquor store.

I am not physically walking into a casino.

If I am a legal child, then I am supervised by my parent or guardian. Otherwise, I can do as I want.

I get that online casinos are a thing. Parents are supposed to parent their children.

I actually would be in favor of id checks at the OS level IF AND ONLY IF I could trust the government.