European Commission plans to ban Free-to-Play games that are not actually free

[vivster]

globalisateur said:

vivster said:
God I hate the EU. By that definition they have to ban everything free because nothing is free in life.

They won't ban "free to play" games. Those games will still exist but the publishers could not use anymore the word "free" to promote them.

This is a good thing. Some children are easy target and begin to play those games because they've being told by their friends it's "free". But then after 6 months the kids are addicted (for real) to the game and parents realized the kid had bought (by stealing credit cards number mainly) hundred or thousands (yes thousands) of euros of virtual stuff (better weapons, virtual gold etc). Not really free I would say.

I have seen it before my own eyes. It really happens.

So they don't label it as free to play anymore but it's still free. So people will have access to it.

This will be as effective as the warning labels on cigarette packets.