Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32616717-20190420051352/@comment-34507698-20190513140832

Casinos and casino games have been outlawed in Japan for a very long time. Like the entire reason why pachinko exists is to act as a grey area surrogate to them because there are purely technical differences between pachinko and slot machines that the Japanese government is turning a blind eye to. I heard some stuff about them getting rid of some gambling restrictions due to the upcoming olympic games in Japan but that's a much more recent development.

And the there's a lot of legal talmudry related to what can or can't be done with legislature and we live in the era of late stage capitalism so I don't think we're actually going to see the death of gacha or lootboxes, just a retooling in accordance to the new legal ramifications. Which, don't get me wrong, will probably kill some games but I still think it would affect a game like CS:GO way more because it has weird and scummy trading going on that probably has some underlying money laundering. Like a game like Dokkan is just a virtual trading card game, and in a way I would argue that the onus is more on the payment systems not having good enough child safety locks than it is on some phone game based on a 30 year old chinese cartoon for 12 year olds.