Quoting someone from another site:
Some key things:
The real world price must be displayed for the item, not just the currency (ie, an outfit should say $24 next to it, not just 2800 vbucks).
Currencies must be exactly matchable to purchase amounts, so no 1000 point packages for 800 point items to leave 200 extra
It’s nice to see some government documents that genuinely understand how these currencies are being used in manipulative ways.
This is long overdue
EU taking some big strides rn
Quite the big step for gaming rights in the EU. In the last page, the document also mentions “whales” as “vulnerable people”, adding that a game targeting them specifically may run afoul of EU legislation when precaution are not taken to protect them from their impulses.
This may have a gigantic ripple effect in the industry – or it may not, if the industry decides that targeting whales in the US and China is more profitable than bowing to the EU.
Honestly that sounds amazing, and would help a lot of people to not over spend.
I guess guidelines are a decent start, the part that’s gonna be tricky is getting the gaming industry to follow them.
rare EU commission W
