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New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For some reason, even though I have been using Steam for a long time, I am not privy to the "lootboxes" they talk about. And my account was never parented. I feel like I would actively need to look for what they are talking about.

disgorge all ill-gotten gains

Why is this the only lawsuit where I see this phrase?
Why do other companies go away with a few million $ in fine?

-> Now I want to know how much Valve has "ill-gotten" out of this thing.

I definitely prefer GoG and being able to play all my games with the internet off and don't consider Steam as some angel. But from what I see, the very fact that so many Gaming companies are trying to destroy Valve, tells me that Valve is giving value that these others don't want given to the customer.

So, using what laws to sue a group of companies for the malicious use of court to attempt to reduce the overall quality of product options available to the consumers?

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The lootboxes are a Counterstrike thing. They're like Labubus except with digital guns and knives.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Ok, so I looked into it further and looks like they also take a tax on every trade, meaning they are actually profiting off of people's auctions after they run their slot machines.

Seems to be quite a bit of ill-gotten gains to be found here.
Gabe might have to pass on a few of his future yachts.