On a more serious note, it's all too common nowadays, particularly with tech companies, for Europe to regulate the US. If EA is specifically 'marketing to children' they're ignoring two-thirds of their customer base. If the US government feels the need to regulate the former, I don't know why they'd accept the latter.Īlso, way too much talk concerning 'marketing to children' in that video. On the other hand, I couldn't walk into a casino as a 16 year old, but I could blow all my savings on video game loot boxes. On one hand, I generally don't like the government stepping in, or parents telling the government that they need their help raising their kids. Its funny though, this never would have happened if it wasn't EA.
The threat of this should be enough action for companies to straighten up about this stuff, but at some point these problems tie into issues with the industry at large, and then those tie into the system that we have as a country altogether.
I don't like the idea of the government, and especially people who very likely aren't players themselves, reaching into actual games development.
