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Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo Team Up to Demystify Loot Boxes

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Geekz Snow
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo Team Up to Demystify Loot Boxes

Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony will start requiring new and updated games that sell randomized loot boxes on their consoles to reveal the relative odds of getting individual in-game items through those loot boxes.

The announcement came during an FTC panel on loot boxes taking place in Washington, DC, today.

Entertainment Software Association chief counsel Michael Warnecke said that the three major console makers "have indicated to ESA a commitment to new platform policies with respect to the use of paid loot boxes in games that are developed for their platforms."

"And it would require the disclosure of the relative rarity or probabilities of obtaining randomized virtual items on their platforms."

Warnecke did not go into detail on which ESA publishers specifically were joining in on the move.

[Update: In a press release, the ESA says "Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bethesda, Bungie, Electronic Arts... Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Wizards of the Coast" are among the major publishers that will start disclosing loot box odds "by the end of 2020."

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