China's 2019 law further restricts loot boxes - thoughts on crown crates?
Darth_Trumpious
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China used to force game companies to make the odds of loot boxes visible to players (i.e. % for different type of rewards) so the consumers are aware of the potential cost.
Effective in April 2019 all games companies in China are now forced to revise the visible "odds" to "exact number of openings required" to make it more transparent. Should the players failed to get the reward within the number of "openings" suggested, they have the rights to report to regulators and companies will face potential penalties.
Thoughts?
Effective in April 2019 all games companies in China are now forced to revise the visible "odds" to "exact number of openings required" to make it more transparent. Should the players failed to get the reward within the number of "openings" suggested, they have the rights to report to regulators and companies will face potential penalties.
Thoughts?
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SFDB✭✭✭✭✭
✭If anyone has the moral high ground on the subject of exploitation, then we can all agree that it's China!7 -
Mathius_Mordred✭✭✭✭✭
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Gythral✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭lol
All it means is they remove RNG for the listed items and you WILL open 10000000000000000000000 boxes to get that Golden Unicorn and 10000000000000000000000-1 junk items until them!
(and the odds will get worse to pay for the servers and storage holding all the extra data)“Be as a tower, that, firmly set,
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy0 -
SaintSubwayy✭✭✭✭✭
✭we arent in china..so nothing will change much.PC EU
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Ash_In_My_Sujamma✭✭✭✭✭Reality check. Loot crates are unethical. It's about time they become illegal as well.2 -
BomblePants✭✭✭✭✭
✭Funny how China are so strict on loot crates; it’s like they have some standards. Then you look at their animal rights policies and realise their priorities are way off....2 -
Genomic✭✭✭✭✭Weird that it's coming from China, but more transparency from gaming companies, particularly with regards to all the shady monetization practices that are becoming the standard, can only be a good thing.
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