From VG247: "Loot boxes must be classified as gambling, a UK commissioner’s new report insists.
In a report titled Gaming The System (due to be published today), Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield calls for authorities to include loot boxes in gambling legislation. Additionally, she also urges games introduce daily spending limits to curb spending sprees."
With Future Games Show 2024 taking place last week, certain indie titles truly managed to stand out from the crowd.
The owner of Steam has been accused of overcharging 14 million PC gamers in the UK and 'shutting out' competition in a new lawsuit.
"Valve, the owner of Steam, is being sued for £656m over claims it is abusing its dominant market position to overcharge players.
The collective action claim has been filed with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt.
In the lawsuit, Shotbolt accuses Valve of ‘shutting out’ competition when it comes to buying PC games and DLC, which has led to 14m people in the UK being overcharged for PC games as a result.
The claim is seeking up to £44 compensation for every UK player who has bought a PC game or add-on content from June 5, 2018."
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So they are trying to take the apple/sony/xbox approach were there is only one store without ever using a pc for gaming.
Anyone with a ounce of pc gaming knowledge knows steam did nothing when competition and the launcher war happened but now every publisher that had there own launcher with games only available on that platform are slowing coming back to steam.
This "lawsuit" should be directed to launcher's like rockstar's as they have games only available on there like the gta collection or ubisoft with xdefiant heck epic launcher exclusive games. There is no grounds in which steam has locked down content to there platform except there own games though there are disc versions of those except half life alex.
Pc players still have the best choice on game buying with multiple launcher's and site that offers keys like my fav humble bundle but on the same platform we have the worst drm along with those 3rd part launcher's that need to run in the background.
Steam allows 3rd party apps (which I hate) and...we all know that egs is the one that keeps buying exclusivity lol. A lot of devs and consumers rely on steam hence it's very heavy support.
If I get 44 pound from them I'll only be spending it in the steam store...fucking absurd ..one of the most ethical companies out there and largely due to them not being a public offering imo
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Those flowers coming from me would be dead. EA will never, ever again get accolades from me with how they have ran their business, killed developers, killed franchises, monopolized IP and licenses.
Nothing but dead flowers.
Hey our country did something right for once who'd have thought
These publishers will find something else. These greedy publishers are always looking for new ways
$60 isn't enough anymore to them neither does the quality that matters
Good as that’s all they are and to make it worse 99.5% of the stuff available through them is absolute guff and purely cosmetic. Like a colour of a car makes you faster 🤦🏻♂️🤷 🏻♂️ Skins and cosmetic items have no benefit other than draining your bank.
Aka nothing was done and it’s still not classified as gambling. 👏👏