FTC has been on a crackdown this year, let’s see what else is going on

Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its gacha loot box monetization and is now banned from selling them to teens under the age of sixteen without parental consent.

It continues:

This comes after the FTC referred a complaint to the Department of Justice over the company’s unfair marketing of loot boxes to minors, obscuring their actual costs and misleading players about the odds of winning prizes. Cognosphere will be required to implement measures to prevent children under 16 from making in-game purchases without parental consent as part of the settlement.

Also,

“Genshin Impact deceived children, teens, and other players into spending hundreds of dollars on prizes they stood little chance of winning,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “Companies that deploy these dark-pattern tactics will be held accountable if they deceive players, particularly kids and teens, about the true costs of in-game transactions.”

It talks a whole lot about the gamein question, including loot boxes.

FTC cracks down on Genshin Impact gacha loot box practices was seen by me earlier but i’m getting around to blogging this.

I’m not going to take a lot of time with this one as it covers a lot I don’t think this affects most of us, which is why I almost didn’t cover it, but since the FTC is doing a bunch of things lately and its being published, let’s fix it and bring it to light.

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