Valve has moved to dismiss the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against the company, which claims loot boxes in its games such as Counter-Strike 2 promote illegal gambling and threaten to addict children.
  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1 month

    The fact that California decided to sue Valve for Counterstrike and not sue EA for FIFA is just blatant targeted harassment. Valve’s right for pointing out that any precedent set here would make Pokemon cards and Baseball cards illegal, both of which are actually advertised directly to kids.

    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.orgEnglish
      1 month

      valve has a way to transfer money in your steam wallet into something with real world value: hardware.

      you can not trade pokemon cards with nintendo for game cartridges or money, that is the whole distinction, no secondary market required.

        • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.orgEnglish
          1 month

          only on a secondary market in which those companies don’t participate. it’s a paper thin line which keeps trading card game booster packs from beeing gambling in a legal sense