fc9006 No.14664908
The gambling authority in the Netherlands has declared that some forms of lootboxes are gambling. Ten popular games were researched, and four of them are in violation in gambling law.
If the randomized rewards of the lootboxes can be sold to other users (for real currency), then they're considered to be items of value. This also applies if the items are being sold on third parties not affiliated with the developer/publisher.
The developer/publishers of the four violating games are given up to 8 weeks to fix their shit. After that they will be given fines and/or sale may be prohibited.
The games researched are not officially named by the gambling authority, but news sites seem to claim that the four violating games are FIFA 18, Dota 2, PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds and Rocket League.
Source in dutch http://archive.is/Ej0L4
Source in google translate http://archive.is/cgwf1
fc9006 No.14664919
Whoops I'm bad at formatting
adc68d No.14664940
>>14664908
>Dutchland gambling authority declares lootboxes gambling
>FIFA 18, Dota 2, PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds and Rocket League.
NETHERLANDS NO!
d324cf No.14665010
And TF2 or Payday 2 don't fit the bill?
Best case scenario is that the publishers just change their lootboxes globally because they're lazy, worst case is that they only block lootbox trading for the Netherlands with some half-measure and the rest of the world won't really care.
14e051 No.14665026
>>14665010
It's not announced which games are researched. But we do know they're picked on popularity.
bc6f68 No.14665083
Dit kan nog interessant worden. Alvast één stap in de goede richting.
>>14665054
FIFA is super popular with the lower-educated half of the population. Playstations and that stupid online game (FUT, FIFA Ultimate Team I think?) are really popular for these reasons.
dc619f No.14665090
>when you're EA and you fuck up so badly you ruin the best money making scheme the industry has ever devised for everyone involved
7902d6 No.14665092
>>14665083
Doesn't it pull in like seven hundred million dollars a year from microtransactions? That's a big fucking deal.
dc619f No.14665095
>>14665010
Politicians will jump on this likes flies on shit. It's one of those no-brainier issues that makes you popular no matter the demographic.
>>14665054
FIFA lootboxes getting regulated would be on the level of IT'S HAPPENING to EA, since nearly half of their entire profits come from FIFA lootboxes.
55a178 No.14665105
>FIFA
Refresh my memory, but weren't sportshit games the first ones to create lootboxes through packs where you get random players? Glad those fuckers are finally.getting hit
dc619f No.14665112
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>>14665092
>Doesn't it pull in like seven hundred million dollars a year from microtransactions?
Billions anon, they make upward of 3 billions of lootboxes from their sport games.
This is a pretty good video that breaks down EA profits and goes to show just how dependent they are on lootboxes and how disgustingly pathetic sportfags are. These fuckers would put weebs to shame with how much money they throw at worthless shit.
f36fe1 No.14665115
Neuken in de keuken
>>14665090
>when you're chaotic evil and accidentally shoot yourself in the foot and take everyone else with you
It's been a long time coming and I hope they get their shit pushed in even more.
dc619f No.14665129
>>14665115
Here's hoping that this burns them to the ground. EA has fuckall besides sports and lootboxes, I hope to God they fucking die already.
c2c92f No.14665132
>when you Jew so hard governments pass legislation to stop you
BRAVO EA
aced92 No.14665136
>>14665132
Funny enough the government of The Netherlands is pure kikery in itself.
bc6f68 No.14665138
>>14665105
According to (((Wikipedia))) the first one who did it were the Chinks, so like pottery. The first big one was apparently TF2, which I predicted at first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box
>>14665092
Yeah, the pull in a fuckton. The Netherlands must be a major share in this scheme.
>>14665115
TREK DE NEDERMEMES MAAR UIT DE KAST
3bafe2 No.14665146
STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT 2
BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY
26b7a6 No.14665172
>>14665138
Verse originele inhoud
1a38e9 No.14665180
Dutch guy here. This just means the government can put a tax on it. Its 30%.
bc6f68 No.14665184
>>14665180
Even then it is a step in the right direction.
a1cfee No.14665188
I'm not celebrating just yet, this can easily go both ways.
b6ead6 No.14665189
I wonder why cs:go isn't on there but dota 2 is
b86b53 No.14665196
Good.
May normalfags and anons push for the complete purge of microtransactions.
c2d51c No.14665198
>>14665184
>bork-bork-borkHOLDMABEERbork-bork
fascinating culture
f36fe1 No.14665221
>>14665184
>dit vraagt om een bijbel!
Top koek
bc6f68 No.14665233
>>14665221
>>14665200
>>14665198
ARE YOU ASKING FOR MORE NEDERMEMES?
Laatste tweetalige schijtpaal, sorry Mark
fc9006 No.14665245
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>>14665180
I doubt it, it would make the game illegal for sale to minors. Don't forget that many publishers have their EU branch in the Netherlands for tax dodging purposes as well.
c653e8 No.14665246
>>14664908
>can be sold to other users (for real currency)
So not FIFA or Rocket League then.
4e14a7 No.14665250
>>14665189
The mentioned games are just popular games that are certainly to be investigated. Only when the offending games don't comply to the rules are their names actually made public.
fc9006 No.14665259
>>14665246
I think you missed this:
>This also applies if the items are being sold on third parties not affiliated with the developer/publisher.
Both games allow trading and have third party sites where you can buy/sell items for real money.
fc9006 No.14665271
>>14665188
>I'm not celebrating just yet, this can easily go both ways.
This isn't a new law being introduced. This is the gambling authority finally getting of its ass and applying the law. This is already happening.
I'm not sure how it can go the wrong way.
a3656f No.14665283
>>14665259
What the article mean is
>can you buy it in loot box only?
<yep
>gambling
>can you buy it separately for more cost?
<yep
>not gambling
Rocket league you buy keys to open the chest and it’s full on random and then you can exchange siege you can buy some cosmetic on lootbox or pay more to get it singularly
c2c92f No.14665298
>>14665245
>Super Bunnyhop
fc9006 No.14665361
>>14665283
No. It doesn't mean that.
>"Doordat de prijzen te verhandelen zijn, krijgen ze een economische waarde. Spelers kunnen geld verdienen als ze een zeldzaam voorwerp krijgen. Daardoor overtreden de spellen de kansspelregels."
Because you can trade them, the items have economic value. Players can earn money by [opening a chest to] obtain a rare item. Because of that they are in violation with gambling law.
c653e8 No.14665371
>>14665259
You mean the kind of sites they already want rooted out but have absolutely no means of stopping? That's fair.
This is a slippery slope waiting to happen where trading and any kind of random drop in any game is taken out because you'll always find the means to sell anything you own.
>>14665283
Waar op die pagina gaat het over dit verschil?
fc9006 No.14665492
>>14665371
>they already want rooted out but have absolutely no means of stopping?
Although I'm not sure about other companies, Valve has done fuck all to stop third party gambling sites.
They only started sending C&D's to third party sites recently because they were threatened with legal action.
>This is a slippery slope waiting to happen where trading and any kind of random drop in any game is taken out because you'll always find the means to sell anything you own.
I think that's still quite a few steps away. Before we get there, lootbox cancer will have to be completely purged first.
b2e633 No.14665675
I like muh free market and muh vija gaems but I hate jew boxes.
I don't know how I feel.
dd7312 No.14665693
2d44f9 No.14665700
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>>14665675
deutschland uber alles is how you feel
5e9d71 No.14665888
>>14664908
>posts picture of shadow of war
>its not on the list of banned games
>>14665675
you should get into politics then so you can argue free market when it benefits you like getting paid by companies for gambling and loot boxes and then for regulation when it doesn't you indecisive shitter
e2b7e3 No.14665903
>>14665371
>You mean the kind of sites they already want rooted out but have absolutely no means of stopping
Just banning trade bots would kill those sites. They have all the power to do it but won't lift a finger because they profit from them.
aced92 No.14665926
d66aa2 No.14665979
Can't wait for the Soros astroturf candidates that run on a "free gibs and legalizing lootboxes" platform.
02ae89 No.14665986
>>14665172
>Thread getting colonized by Dutch menes
I'm ok with this
570f7d No.14666040
>>14665986
fucking mongoloid
c2c92f No.14666057
>>14666040
>mongoloid
That's the Finnish, not the Dutch.
962238 No.14666068
>>14665675
An unregulated free market doesn't work, and this industry is proof of it. The only way it could work is if everyone was intelligent and principled, but that is obviously not the case. To defend a free market is to defend the extreme kikery that goes on in the video game industry, with things that used to be part of the default package being sold for many times more than the (now raised) default price. Can't blame this on some vague regulations forcing people to do this either, nothing's forcing people to be hyper kikes.
Instead of trying to maintain a "free" market that kikes will just abuse, we should be working on creating good regulations to stop jewery.
d66aa2 No.14666079
>>14666068
Video games aren't unregulated.
c653e8 No.14666095
>>14665903
>Just ban trade bots
They'll make new ones.
26b7a6 No.14666108
>>14666040
Just use "fucking mongool" next time you're in a Dutch thread, ok? Or mongol, if you want to sound like a kutmarrokaan.
962238 No.14666109
>>14666079
They aren't regulated in any way that forces developers and publishers to do all this hyper jewish bullshit. They do that because they get away with it because people are morons.
e2b7e3 No.14666113
>>14666095
its very easy to prevent them from doing that, especially nowadays.
9b88c5 No.14666128
>>14665180
That's even better.
It means all the companies with games with lootboxes that take a cut of player to player sales (and they all do) owes the dutch government 30% of back taxes + interest on said cut.
And that all the players that did sold shit are all guilty of tax evasion…
This kills the steam market.
b6ead6 No.14666147
>https://translate.google. nl/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=https://nos.nl/artikel/2228041-populaire-games-overtreden-gokregels.html&prev=search
>dota 2 as well as pubg being lined up to be outlawed by dutch courts for violating gambling laws
OH NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO
WHAT WILL ADELAIDEFAG DO NOW THAT SINGSINGS STREAM WILL BE DEAD?
a172aa No.14666217
>>14666147
>doto and pubg both banned soon
God I hope so
kankerland doet eindelijk eens iets goeds
d848a0 No.14666221
>>14664908
Sadly doesn't mean shit unless all of the EU or US bans kikeboxes.
bbe675 No.14666230
>>14666221
It sets precedent.
bc6f68 No.14666285
>>14666217
DANSEN STELLETJE VERREKTE KOEKWOUZEN
898bdb No.14666320
>>14665233
No, we're asking for you to explain what the hell is happening in these nonsense videos.
bc6f68 No.14666361
>>14666320
What is happening in >>14665184 is the following: during Carnaval (about the same as any other country, we dress up as something stupid, wear silly clothes or Brabantian attire and go party and drink beer for four days straight. Only the southern parts of the Netherlands celebrate it, and it is the best time you can have.) a fight has broken out on a popular clubbing (more pubs actually) area and some dude dressed up as a monk says "This asks for a Bible". Next thing that happens is that he gets punched in the face by a dyke who says - in a heavy Brabantian accent - "Here y'are boy, a Bible on your trap!".
What happens in >>14665233 is that a clown in an amusement park is roasting a sandnigger. He is too proud to see the humor in it however.
abf75d No.14668163
>>14665083
thierry is een autist
geen grap
8981be No.14668178
>>14666221
All storms start with a few drops of rain