Re: What is pay-to-win?

On 05/04/2024 12:55, Anssi Saari wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:
 

Our government looked at the report and, mad Nad as she's known,
basically went yeh whatever. We shouldn't burden companies with more
'red tape' that will in anyway negatively effect their profits. Why
set-up a committee in the first place if you're going to completely
ignore what it says.

 Isn't that just how politics works? Setting up a committee is usually a
delaying tactic to begin with and when they finally deliver something,
the choices are more committees for more delays or dismissal. Pretty
soon it's the end of the term and issues are forgotten or maybe the new
parliament sets up another committee about the same thing.
 Oh well, for a little international flavor, here in Finland we're moving
away from a government gambling monopoly towards some kind of a
licensing deal. Mostly because gambling's not a monopoly any more, in
practice people are free to stuff the online casinos' coffers with their
money. So the loot box question may come up at some point here but I'd
be surprised if anything happens this decade. Then again, Finland is a
small market, EU wide regulation might actually do something to
someone's bottom line.

Generally yes but we did have a change in regulation over something called fixed odds betting terminals which are gambling machines on steroids. They were so lucrative that even though they were limited to four per-shop the companies just opened more shops in the vicinity to get around that. Limiting the amount you could spend (there's some really horror stories of what happened when people became addicted to them) was kicked around in parliament but nothing actually happened which I'm sure was in no way connected to the massive increases in donations from these companies to our party of government. Why it changed was really down to a single MP who kept pushing the subject until after a couple of years the law was finally changed.