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I guess guidelines are a decent start, the part that's gonna be tricky is getting the gaming industry to follow them.
what's hard here, either you follow the rules or you get disabled in EU markets - your loss
The gaming industry is gonna fight this every step of the way. There's gonna be lobbying, kicking and screaming; and no it's certainly not as simple as "follow the rules or get banned". First off because you can't just ban games by flicking your fingers, there's thousands of games and dozens of distributing platforms. Secondly because the goal isn't to remove them from the market but to get them to play ball.
I mean they play ball when they are disabled until they comply with the law, no?
Similar to the loot case law change (belgium/netherlands iirc). Or was that handled differently?
If you look at how the EU is handling the Digital Markets Act - it's gonna be fines.
so lootboxes were never diabled?
Pretty sure I've heard users from these regions mention that they had their shops completely unavailable in certain games
But fines wouldnt be an issue here either to me, maybe Im missing something
Those were local measures that were not handled by the European Union.