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grimmhelm So for those who didn't notice a few things changed this week. After EA's frankly disgusting Loot crate system more than a few people got upset, the fact that it was attached to a Star Wars game made this explode in a big way This morning Belgium made the legal decision to mark ALL loot crates gambling and have since taken the legislative action to the EU congresS what this means 1) If they receive at minimum 20 votes from the gathering of almost 200 all countries within the EU can make the switch over legally to making Loot Boxs gambling 2) If done so they simply have to make a single small court appearance and they do not need to announce that they are doing SO. 3) All game companies that sell loot crates or similar WILL have to PURCHASE a gambling license that will consist of 20% of their tax on the system from the last year, they must re-buy this every year 4) The companies may also be Taxed' for all previous years of selling the crates within the region of some countries, this would bea loss of literally billions in some companies cases This will be an almost certainty in places such as Italy that is currently going through a financial crisis at the moment and will cost the companies greatly if the regions choose to add a tax to the initial taking of funds, which is within there legal rights to do so 5) All drop rates and quality rating must be made Public and actively Updated. -the very thing Blizzard has been trying not to do since Overwatch launched Loot crates will become VERY unprofitable since all prices will also be regulated from outside of publishers and there can be up to (but not limited too) a 40% take on all crate sales within some areas Added to the purchase of gabling licenses this will be around a 60 -80% take from company profits each year There is also a special little note here. Hawaii have also jumped onto this little float boat, an area which has being confirmed as a primary seller of loot crates for the last year are now pushing it forth by the government as gabling, if it takes hold there six other states have vowed to follow suit. You can see the press conference here This has caused Blizzard to actively state on there Twitter this morning that meetings are currently underway about the replacement /modification to loot boxes in both Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch at this current time This after the Blizz-con 2017 event where they talked about expanding the loot crate system to a greater extend over the course of the loot panel held on the Saturday Link here EDIT: Apparently the tweet was removed VERY quickly after, teach me not to grab a screenshot. I'm reasonably sure someone at EA is getting screamed at right now and that other companies are watching this with the utmost attention, there is also a lot of people keeping that same attention on EA since they are being the ones pinned as responsible wildcardarcana I f------ hope they all get labeled as gambling. They function very similar to gambling and actively do prey upon gambling addictions and depressive/other mental illnesses that are prone to being exploited by microtransactions gholateg It IS f------ gambling. and it SHOULD be treated as f------ You know what it means really? For most games? They'll have to actually make f------ content we want to buy at a stable rate instead of giving us f------ R percent chances of giving us the things we want NG boxes with percentages of a I'd spend more money on OW and heroes if I didn't have to RNG that s--- every time. The only thing the RNG does is force us as consumers to shell out more money for chances. Make enough s--- and you'll still make money

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>Companies may be taxed for every year they sold lootboxes
>Companies that have been consistently shitty about this could well not escape their sins even if they dropped lootboxes today
>EA and the sort of mobile game companies (and others) that have shat on the game industry for years stand to lose literally billions for doing so

I am a terrible man for feeling so happy about this chaos that could well happen, because it's like being happy about a plane crash, but I cannot help it; I love the possibility still.

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