Steam is acting bewildered, as if it didn’t know what was coming. It’s also playing dumb about how to fix it.
Nevertheless, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2 had to disable trading in the Netherlands because two outta ten loot boxes are gambling there. Oh well.
Didn’t you just post this?
One small step for CSGO, one giant leap for gaming
Who got a notification to a video that wasn’t public?
The worst thing is that so many people victimize valve when it’s all their fault
Netjes netjes, bedankt regering ^~^
(Translated: nice nice, thanks government ^~^)
Also kansspelautoriteit means gambling authority
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OMG I love the Dutch SO MUCH!
“We broke the law, we got notified weeks ago, and now we’re removing your ability to trade stuff you paid for without any prior notification to you. Oh, and that’s totally all their fault for not telling us how we can get around the law soon enough, and not us.”
“No views”
Great I’m a Jim Sterling Hipster now.
They didn’t notify customers that their inventory is now useless because that would flood the market, reducing prices, and making valve less money. All of this is slimey and Valve deserves no sympathy
Truly the Dark Souls of gambling.
Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I think the events of the past year or so may mark the end of some of these anti-consumer practices. I don’t think publishers ever expected these things to garner the kind of public attention that they are. Hopefully, a good thing for consumers.
How about they put an age restriction on the games ? And display a big tag saying “this game contains gambling” ? These things are engineered to train people to be compulsive buyer and gamblers, then exploit them until their bank accounts bleed. Therefore, they should be regulated, as should happen to any business who refuses to police itself.
We can only hope EA keeps up their illegal lootboxes in fifa so they can get fined 10% of last years revenue and may face prison sentences.
Jim Reupload Sterling.
There’s one part at the end which Jim doesn’t actually end up reading I find even more flabbergasting than the rest of the letter!
_”…they may refine their legal demands…”!??!_ Really? You’re hoping a country changes their laws to accommodate your shitty lootbox practices?! Wooow… gl with that.
“We can’t make extra money off people with our gambling system? Can’t you just change the law to allow it?” – that ol’ ingrain dictatorship-mindset is confusing the poor guys at Steam.
God damn Jim is still so salty about Valve and the Steam regulations thing.
I still can’t believe there are people who defend Valve’s awful practices out there. At this point, Loot Boxes and the like should be called “Predatory Exploitation” instead of gambling. Has a nicer ring to it too if you ask me!