Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted March 12 Diamond Member Share Posted March 12 Last month, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up accusing the company of promoting "******** gambling" through its randomized in-game loot boxes. On Wednesday, Valve This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , comparing its digital loot boxes to randomized real-world purchases like blind-bagged toys or packs of trading cards. "Generations have grown up opening baseball card packs and blind boxes and bags, and then trading and selling the items they receive," Valve wrote. "On the physical side, popular products used in this way include baseball cards, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu." Though that may seem like an apt comparison on the surface, Valve's loot boxes differ from these real-world examples in large part because of Valve's control of the Steam Marketplace, which serves as the only legitimate way to exchange or resell those items. While owners of real-world items are free to trade or sell them however they want, Valve has cracked down on many third-party sites that enable the exchange of in-game items— This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up when those items are This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/304533-steam-valve-compares-its-loot-boxes-to-labubus-in-lawsuit-defense/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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