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.
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.
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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/
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.
That’s still clickbait. Is there no honest source?
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:
The press release:
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.