I was frustrated to seeing this (incorrect) framing here and I genuinely didn’t have the energy to get past the clickbait enough to see if the actual video reports accurately on what has been issued.
This is not new legislation, this is not a legislative change. This is an administrative body that coordinates existing national consumer protection agencies using already existing legislation that has flagged one example of what they consider to be infringement and issued guidance on what it considers infringement in general.
There is no legislative force to this. You could argue that they are just wrong in court and win. There is no court in the EU obligated to follow these guidelines, they are just more likely to keep you on the right side of these agencies, as far as I understand their role.
This is nominally better than the exceedingly crappy reporting that was doing the rounds this week saying that the “EU had banned MTX”, but not by much. The recommendations are very mild and while they’re positive and will block some usual dark patterns if applied they won’t change one bit of how modern games, AAA or not, are monetized.
I’m also less kind than the people downthread. It takes some serious hypocrisy to make a celebratory video about how the EU is finally going after dark patterns while clickbaiting so hard I can see multiple body parts prolapsing from here.
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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Thank you EU (not you Belgium) for clapping back against dark patterns✊🌻🫡
This problem has been cancerous for the gaming industry for far too long.
I was frustrated to seeing this (incorrect) framing here and I genuinely didn’t have the energy to get past the clickbait enough to see if the actual video reports accurately on what has been issued.
This is not new legislation, this is not a legislative change. This is an administrative body that coordinates existing national consumer protection agencies using already existing legislation that has flagged one example of what they consider to be infringement and issued guidance on what it considers infringement in general.
There is no legislative force to this. You could argue that they are just wrong in court and win. There is no court in the EU obligated to follow these guidelines, they are just more likely to keep you on the right side of these agencies, as far as I understand their role.
This is nominally better than the exceedingly crappy reporting that was doing the rounds this week saying that the “EU had banned MTX”, but not by much. The recommendations are very mild and while they’re positive and will block some usual dark patterns if applied they won’t change one bit of how modern games, AAA or not, are monetized.
I’m also less kind than the people downthread. It takes some serious hypocrisy to make a celebratory video about how the EU is finally going after dark patterns while clickbaiting so hard I can see multiple body parts prolapsing from here.
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.
I love Bellular’s content. I wish he would stop playing the clickbait game. I miss it when he didn’t do that. I know why he does, but I hate it.
The unfortunate reality is that the clickbait game works.
Agreed, although I have a feeling the clickbait problem will persist thoughout youtube until the EU comes in again
All you can do is not engage with it
Are mtx a requirement to be considered a AAA game now? Pretty sure a lot of games I though were AAA don’t have mtx.