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The same way we can revoke NetBet's gambling license, right? The government could easily require a gambling license (or a "random gaming" or a "f2p game" licen
by simiones 3y ago
The same way we can revoke NetBet's gambling license, right?
The government could easily require a gambling license (or a "random gaming" or a "f2p game" license or whatever form it takes) to be able to distribute a certain type of game which would be legally defined. Then, they could impose requirements like age checking for such games, and companies who failed to respect the requirements would lose the right to distribute these games in that country. International treaties could be used to extend this ban across a wider economic area.
Note that there already exist laws that define precisely what types of games require a gambling license, extending that to a new type of game has to be done carefully, but is definitely achievable. As just a low-effort pass at it, we could require a license for any game that includes a way for the player to pay to have some advantage in-game, where this advantage is obtained via random chance after the payment is made. An advantage could be defined as any change to the player that statistically increases the player's chances of reaching a win state.