The European Union is banning the use of virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases.

1) Price indication should be clear and transparent
2) Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided
3) Practices that force consumers to purchase unwanted in-game virtual currency should be avoided
4) Consumers should be provided with clear and comprehensible pre-contractual information
5) Consumers’ right of withdrawal should be respected
6) Contractual terms should be fair and written in plain and clear language
7) Game design and gameplay should be respectful of different consumer vulnerabilities

Long overdue. This should be a 10 year old law. There is a whole generation addicted to fucking crystals.

holy based

yet another EU W

EU defending consumers again, love to see it from loot boxes to phone repairs to this. Rest of the world need to follow suit.

Gaming companies: These policies are going to hurt our sales!

Literally everyone:
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So… instead of stuff like “2500 wacky coins” we’ll start to see like, $15?

BASED EU AS ALWAYS

W decision

Is this only about Star Stable Entertainment AB?

its been getting more and more tempting to be a part of the EU lately xD

Goated EU regulations moment

It’s misleading. They’re not banning the use of in-game currency. They are requesting the following:
The key principles outline the minimum requirements for the purchase and use of virtual currencies, including:

– clear and transparent pricing and pre-contractual information;
– avoiding practices hiding the costs of in-game digital content and services, as well as practices forcing consumers to purchase virtual currency;
– respect of consumers’ right of withdrawal;
– respecting consumer vulnerabilities, in particular when it comes to children;

Not only that, but this whole thing is coming after there was a complaint against Star Stable Entertainment AB, the one behind Star Stable Online (a game for young children), and they’ve “identified” a number of practices that violate EU consumer protection legislation and that could be particularly harmful to children. Let’s see if they actually go all the way to ban it, which I’m not sure about.

This report from the commission only concerns Star Stable Online, and not the other games as far as I know. However, the things that they’ve  “identified” as violating the EU consumer protection legislations should concern all games. I don’t know how bad it is on Star Stable Online… but if the EU Commission gets on top of things, it’s clear enough to me that things *are bad*…

Honestly, based choice.

well, it doesn’t disguise the price of in game purchases if you have to buy the currency in the first place. Also a lot of games have battle passes that you buy once and then when you complete it you literally have your currency back (plus an extra in some cases). Do I have to pay for every tekken fight pass from now on?

EU is so based.