Legislation is being promoted to ban the sale of complete gacha in the game. It is a view that it is necessary to regulate because there are no related regulations while it promotes excessive speculation.
In addition, Democratic Party lawmaker Yoo Dong-soo proposed an amendment to the Game Act (Act on Promotion of the Game Industry) on the 5th. ▲ Prohibition of selling complete Gacha ▲ Disclosure of probable item information ▲ Penalties for disclosing incorrect information are the main points.
Complete Gacha is a type of probability item that allows users to get rewards by collecting all the parts of the puzzle, as if filling the bingo board. Gacha is Japanese, meaning a random box where you can’t know what content will appear when you open it.
Suppose one of the numbered pieces from 1 to 10 appears randomly in a probability item. The item that can be used in the game is provided only by opening this probability item and collecting all the number pieces.
The controversy over the speculative nature of Complete Gacha is steadily raised every year. Recently, Nexon has been pointed out by offering a high-performance vehicle as a complete gacha reward in the mobile racing game’Kart Rider Rush Plus’.
There is also a case where the Fair Trade Commission imposed a penalty on game companies for related issues. Nexon presented a complete gacha manipulation through a paid item in the PC FPS game’Sudden Attack’ until 2018. At the time, Nexon marked this piece as’randomly paid’, but it was revealed that there was a certain probability, and a penalty was imposed.
However, this was a case of sanctions due to’disclosure of incorrect probability information’, and the speculative problem of Complete Gacha was not reflected.
What kind of sanctions will game companies impose when selling Complete Gacha overseas? Regulations are already underway in Asia, where there are relatively many game companies that choose probabilistic items as their main business model. In Japan, such probabilistic items are handled by the Prizes Act, and administrative dispositions are imposed upon sales.
In China, complete gacha is allowed, but you must indicate how many times it will take to obtain the desired item.
There are no reports of regulations directly prohibiting complete gacha in the Anglo-American or major European countries. However, in 2018, gambling committees in each country violated gambling laws such as’Battle Ground’,’FIPA 18′,’Dota 2”Rocket League’, and’FIPA 18′,’Overwatch’ and’Counter Strike: Global Offensive’ in Belgium. I took action.
In the UK and Germany, high-intensity regulations are being introduced to prevent game companies from selling probabilistic items to minors.
Rep. Dong-soo Lee, who proposed the revision of the game law, said, “There is no provision in the current law to disclose information on probability-type items, so consumers do not know exactly the expected utility of the probability-type items they purchase.” , Mabinogi and other famous games are suspicious that the probability of the item’s appearance has been manipulated in a’unfavorable direction for consumers’.”
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