>ESRB President Patricia Vance has announced a new label. Physical copies of games will now have an additional label noting if they have in-game purchases. This is a measure to address issues people may be having with titles that include loot boxes. (Thanks, GamesIndustry.biz!) >The ESRB’s in-game purchases label will be like the “Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB” note on boxes with online multiplayer. If a game has any sort of add-on or subscription, it will carry this in-game purchases label. This means a title like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would get the label because of its season pass and DLC, even though it does not have microtransactions. It also means a game like Overwatch would have the label, due to its loot boxes. >Vance noted that the ESRB will not take action regarding whether or not companies should report loot box drop rates at this time. In China, a law was passed in 2017 that required games like Dota, League of Legends and Overwatch to reveal their loot box odds. >Vance did not say when the ESRB in-game purchases label will begin appearing on physical game boxes.
Exactly, it has paid content tho, so now normal games with normal DLC get the same stigma as Metal Gear Survive
Nolan Myers
>Physical copies
It's fucking nothing them
Levi Williams
>Intentionally hiding it behind games with more benign transactions.
Slimy fucks.
Lincoln Watson
Thats dumb not all ingame purchases are the same Way to miss the whole point
Parker Rodriguez
>dlc being lumped in with lootboxes This is their way of getting back at the us, isn’t it?
Leo Brown
OP roasting Nintenbabies incognito ;)
Gavin Wright
>games with gambling will now have a little icon on the box THAT'S IT? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? >"w-we did it!!!"
Jonathan Price
Normalfag parents can at least keep track of the things they buy as gifts or presents. Like if they saw an M rated game they obviously wont buy it for a child.
Isaiah Rodriguez
>no source
Cooper Ross
>if they saw an M rated game >they obviously wont buy it for a child LMAO!
So it's not a loot box label for games. Great headline.
Hunter Kelly
>Want to get rid of Lung cancer >Succeed >"Oh, btw, we're also getting rid of Pancreatic cancer" >user contemplates if this is some form of revenge. I don't look at gift horses in the mouth, you collossal faggot.
Ian Cooper
>want to rise awareness of how sugary foods make kids fat >succeed >"Oh, btw, we´re also getting rid of fruit, fruit has sugar in them"
Brody Clark
It's the first step of many. Read the tweet, user
Zachary Robinson
>Food analogy >Implying DLC has any sort of value. Silly user, I don't care if you have a dozen DLC packages that are good, when you have hundreds, if not thousands of bad DLC the entire thing is cancer and should be removed.
Might as well read fanfiction instead of reading books if that's your approach.
Luis Williams
Games like the Witcher 3 will be lumped together with SWB2 before of this label...
Isaiah Nelson
>mfw this makes the industry go back to releasing stand alone expansions
Robert Williams
Good, and I really don't care if this impacts ALL games with in-game puchases or not. Finally any steps taken towards excising 7th gen cancer.
Colton Baker
>>Vance noted that the ESRB will not take action regarding whether or not companies should report loot box drop rates Wow that's fucking nothing
Mason Gonzalez
This is in response to when an ESA representative wasn't able to say, during a bill hearing over lootboxes, "b-but we have a label! we do rate it!"
