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The Law Finally Caught Up, EVERY AAA Is In Trouble (i.ytimg.com)
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[–] JovialSodium 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Clickbait title is unhelpful but did it's job in making me curious. Guessing it's this for those that don't want to watch a video.

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/european-union-makes-legislative-change-that-will-change-in-game-purchases-forever-3167394/

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's still clickbait. Is there no honest source?

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 21 points 2 days ago

Best you can do is read the actual text they published. It's just eight pages.

The actually useful bit of that article is the link to the press release. Oddly, the press release does NOT say what that article says it says.

The article:

Europe’s CPC (Consumer Protection Cooperation Network) confirmed that they’re calling for changes in the way games present their currency.

The press release:

the CPC Network is presenting today key principles to help the gaming industry comply with the EU consumer protection rules related to in-game virtual currencies. (...) The key principles and the Common Position are based on the existing general rules of EU consumer law directives that apply to digital services and digital content provided to consumers, including video games.

I don't know if it's a problem with reading comprehension, the increasing deprofessionalization of games journalism or what, but the reporting on this is consistently... bad.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Clickbait is just 100x more effective, unfortunately. Anybody not doing it is throwing money away.

Back in the day you paid for newspapers and they were already paid for by the time they were written and reached your lawn so there was no need.

Today the only way to make money is to dangle a carrot and get a click to drive advertising revenue.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

These are indeed great news! I hope next they will age gate games with gambling mechanics, its absurd the amount of games listed as PG3 that have tons of them, from loot boxes to roullete spins. Its atroucious these practices are allowed in games for children.