Hot Takes on Lootbox and Legal Enforcement - #283 - Game Dev Local Podcast

About this episode

The episode discusses recent legal actions against game developers regarding lootboxes and the implications of these issues.

In this episode Oscar is once again joined in his podquest to 'learn everything about #gamedev you never dared to ask' by Stuart De Ville, fellow host and captain of the team here at GDL. We talk about the recent (at the time of recording) announcements of enforcement order by the CAP against game developers over Lootboxes; as well as New York going after Valve/Steam for similar reasons. What do we think of these issues being raised like this now?

People in this episode

Host: Oscar

Guest: Stuart De Ville

Topics covered

• lootboxes
• legal enforcement
• game development
• video game regulations
• CAP
• Valve
• Steam

Keywords

• lootboxes
• legal enforcement
• CAP
• Valve
• Steam
• game development
• video games

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CAP, Valve, Steam

Places: New York

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