Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34368958-20190510023202/@comment-34050211-20190605163302

PolishW wrote: Enforcability won't go down the the personal level. They aren't going to start knocking down the doors of 18 years that use a VPN to play Dokkan. They will either enforce it by targetting the companies that make these games or the app stores themselves. The former isn't very likely because a lot of those companies are overseas, and some of them aren't really "companies", some are just small teams cash grabbing. It would be much much easier to make the app stores enforce it then for the government to chase down every app company that uses microtransactions.

It would be ideal if the app stores added age verification to accounts (which parents could pass for their children if they so choose), which functionally wouldn't change much for Dokkan players unless they're spending their parents money without permission (in which case shame on you). The steam behind this bill is "children are being financially exploited" so my hope is that the app stores add some extra protectection for it and that's the end of it.

iirc Dokkan pulled itself from the Belgian stores which was very rash. Dokkan and DBZ in general tend to be marketed towards teens, but the majority of Dokkan's revenue is probably coming from adults with jobs. I think Dokkan could still be very profitable even if it is 18+, but whether or not anything changes is largely on the app stores and Bandai. Enforcablility will always happen company side on a matter such as this. I'm just pointing out way the US could easily regulate this to such an extent that it will make it harder for companies to rely on workarounds that users could implement to still pay for these.