Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34368958-20190510023202/@comment-38109189-20190513140158

Withy14 wrote: CakeBuu, Ni.Bäu:

as Seichan444 wrote it is gambling. You can check the youtubers (whales) and psychologically they fit into gembling role. It does not matter whether the game lets you get some SSR (on GSSR slot). The same way behaves casino, slot machines etc. They let you win sometime so you think that it is ok, but the more you play the more you loose but the more you are addicted. Then perhaps i have not worded my thoughts correctly. I agree with the classification of gambling completely. I agree with CakeBuu in the sense that including a guaratee in summoning would be a way to circumvent this. This is also the reason why the coins have been introduced in Japan i think. With the guarantee of i.e. the featured unit of your choice after 5 multis you know what you are buying in addition to the gambling part. Since you know at least something beforehand is guaranteed i think the bill would not classify this as gambling, eventhough i might not agree with this.

@DontTouchMyPepsi

I think the reason lawmakers are slowly comming after this is the fact that this practice of microtransactions in games is targeted directly towards children. Eventhough you and i might not fall under this category there is no doubt, that the target of the addictive nature of microtransactions is children. If games could be controlled as much as casinos in terms of audience, then there wouldn`t be an issue for me personally. However there is not and will most likely never be, hence some form of legislative ruleset to follow is appropriate i think.