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Wish we had this law in NA and Europe.
Chinese law now requires that all game makers reveal the odds of item drops. We could use this in NA and Europe.
http://www.pcgamer.com/new-chinese-law-forces-riot-to-publish-league-of-legends-loot-box-drop-rates/?utm_content=bufferfb0e9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamerfb
Write to your local congressperson.
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Not a US person. But it would be great to force Anet to reveal the odds for all of their drop rates. They will have to make public the drop rates of the chinese version of the game. I haven’t been able to find them yet.
Can you obtain those LoL boxes without paying money for them? Because if you can’t, then there’s a chance this law only applies to stuff that requires a cash purchase, and technically GW2 NA/EU games has nothing like that since you can acquire BLCK in game.
Not a US person. But it would be great to force Anet to reveal the odds for all of their drop rates. They will have to make public the drop rates of the chinese version of the game. I haven’t been able to find them yet.
It’d be better to look somewhere in Europe, online games in China are required by law to have their own client separate from any other region, and because of that they can, and frequently do, have different drop rates.
China can make laws like that because they literally control the internet there, meaning they could easily disable access to specific servers baring companies from business. The US does not control the internet, no matter how much both side of Congress would like to, so they really have no legal way to force a company to provide private proprietary data. The EU is a different beast since it is a binding of multiple nation so they have to get the law passed in each nation, as they don’t control the internet as well.
All in all it is a really stupid idea but hey change the stats at the start of the month and what the drop rate was for the month at the month, simple way for the law to be bypassed.
I think I’d wait to see how the Chinese law actually affects game publishers before suggesting that do something like it in other countries.
I’m always in favor of more data. I’m always in favor of such data being able to everyone, which is why the GW2 TP and associated API makes the game more fair for more people than its predecessor and many of its competitors. I’m not, however, convinced that the ‘more data’ mandated by the law is the sort of thing that would actually be helpful to us.
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In theory there’s no reason we couldn’t have a law like this in the EU. There’s already plenty of laws requiring companies to make some information public and to keep other stuff private and secure – for example registered charities are required to make basically all their finances public and there’s been a lot of fuss recently about new regulations for collecting personal information.
The governments don’t need to have direct control over a companies ability to operate to enforce it, they enforce it the same way as any other law. You don’t need a police man standing outside of your house to prevent people breaking in.
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The Chinese game is different, in that you have to buy everything (cash shop x 1 million). In the US, you DO have to post the odds if you have gambling involved, but since you can participate in every aspect of GW2 for free (no cash required other than buying the game), none of it constitutes gambling.
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You can get it parsed in europe, if you have a year with nothing else to do. But it would only work for the items that include money directly or indirectly, since thats called gambling