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Topic	ESRB adds "In-game Purchases (w/ Random Items)" to their ratings.
ParanoidObsessive 04/16/20 8:48:42 PM #16:	Joker_X_II posted... If publishers are going to add in loot box features after release, they will have to repackage their games, perhaps send out rolls of label-stickers to retailers to cover up the old label. They probably won't. The "Hot Coffee" situation happened in a very different environment. These days, they'd probably just hide behind the legal loophole of "Game Experience May Change During Online Play", which has always been a handwave for "We're not responsible for anything the moment you interact with other players". But they could probably get away with using that to mean "online updates after the fact are not part of the core game experience", and avoid getting them rated. Though more likely, they're going to do what they've already started doing, and what's similar to how Japan has always handled gambling via Pachinko - add an extra step between purchasing in-game currency and the gambling aspect, so they can invoke plausible deniability and claim that their in-game mechanics aren't microtransactions or loot boxes, so they don't have to be part of the warning. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:937540747] in ESRB adds ... [t:78591158]...</cite> <quote><cite>Joker_X_II posted...</cite> <quote>If publishers are going to add in loot box features after release, they will have to repackage their games, perhaps send out rolls of label-stickers to retailers to cover up the old label.</quote> They probably won't. The "Hot Coffee" situation happened in a very different environment. These days, they'd probably just hide behind the legal loophole of "Game Experience May Change During Online Play", which has always been a handwave for "We're not responsible for anything the moment you interact with other players". But they could probably get away with using that to mean "online updates after the fact are not part of the core game experience", and avoid getting them rated. Though more likely, they're going to do what they've already started doing, and what's similar to how Japan has always handled gambling via Pachinko - add an extra step between purchasing in-game currency and the gambling aspect, so they can invoke plausible deniability and claim that their in-game mechanics aren't microtransactions or loot boxes, so they don't have to be part of the warning. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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