alt Hacker News> Gacha games are also being recognized as thinly veiled gambling and regulated as such.
Where are they being regulated at all?
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catlikesshrimp • 01/17/2025
Amusingly, Apple and Google might be the first serious regulators of those.
https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hchsiao/pub/2024_ACSAC_lootbox....
"Verifying Loot-box Probability Without Source-code Disclosure"
Just read the abstract
https://screenrant.com/lootbox-gambling-microtransactions-il...
There was a bill introduced in the US that didn't go anywhere. Of course gambling has recently been heavily deregulated in the US so I suppose we can't expect much to be done about gambling in video games right now. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/162...
I vaguely recall it in at least one of those state bills to regulate social media for kids (listing it as an addictive behavior that's "harmful to minors" or whatever), but can't find specifics. I don't know whether something has passed anywhere in the US.