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New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes (www.pcgamer.com)
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The lawsuit aims to "stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws."

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Valve doesn't make the games. You'll need to take this up with the game developers. They're the ones who inserted the "surprise mechanics" into the game.

[-] oerpi@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

this is about Counterstrike loot boxes, so Valve absolutely makes the game in question

[-] me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Valve did make CSGO and other games in the past which did have heavy microtransactions though yes I do agree that other companies such as Epic Games are much more liable for this

[-] ghurab@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Is this a joke or did you not read the article?

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