New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes
The lawsuit aims to โstop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws.โ
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 Iโve 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 donโt trust our government not to fuck this up in the worst way possible right now.
Iโll admit I have marginally more trust in steam for ages verification than a lot of the other options.
As a parent of a small child, Iโm very impressed with the options available via steam. Just the fact I can let them play games from my personal library surprised me. I donโt need to buy them a copy.
The gambling thing is definitely something that needs addressing. Itโs one of the few black marks I have against valve.
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