Developer Honesty, Loot Boxes and Regulation

This week, we talk about some of the practices we see with developers misrepresenting, misleading, or outright lying about their games before launch. This comes at the heels of 2 PCGamer articles regarding a mobile game that is a Witcher knockoff and a Kotaku Article for God of War clone for Xbox. Loot boxes come into the picture with some of this and we focus on how the EU is backing off making legislation for loot boxes and how Belgium is unable to enforce the loot box rules they have implemented. We then move to China with their loot box rules and begin the conversation with how difficult it is to release a game in china due to some of the barriers involved along with the 80+day review period. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:47 Developer Honesty 27:26 Loot Boxes 41:43 Regulation 53:36 Close