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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Go EU!
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:16:17 +0100
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On 10/04/2025 03:22, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Now, of course, the EU Consumer Protection Commission's
> recommendations don't have force of law; this still needs to be voted
> on by the EU first. But the EU has been very pro-active in consumer
> protections and privacy and it isn't that unlikely that the EU will
> push these suggestions forward. And unlike the piecemeal
> anti-lootbox/MTX laws that have already been passed individually by a
> few member states (most notably Belgium), if the whole EU stands by
> these recommendations, it won't be something that can be ignored.
> More, the EU doesn't give slap-on-the-wrist fines to violators either.
> This won't be something that publishers can just disregard, short of
> abandoning the EU market (and 1/3 of their revenue) entirely

Well firstly, that saves me making a post about it. So on to the meat, 
the legal status seems slightly vague as I believe the CPC Network* have 
picked a target (some horse game aimed squarely at kids) and are using 
the interpretation of existing EU consumer protect laws to say these 
type of practices go against them. My assumption is that if you get a 
case in one member state then you've basically given the green light to 
all member states.

One of the funny parts was that organisation that represents the games 
industry (which doesn't include consumers of course) have said that this 
may disrupt games for users. Yes how awful having some of your games 
disrupted by removing parts of MTX - won't anybody think of the grande 
fromages yearly bonuses!

*As far as I can tell that's really there to give more bite to 
authorities at national level and increase cooperation between member 
states.