Hawaii moves to ban the sale of games containing loot boxes to people under 21, big red label on all boxes

[jason1637]

monocle_layton said:

jason1637 said:

The government is controlling how you spend your money? No thank you.

...That's completely incorrect.

They aren't 'controlling' your money. They still allow microtransactions but make companies state the odds of randomly generated results (loot boxes and whatnot) and place limits to prevent addictions or whales from being common. 

This isn't 1984 - we aren't going to die because Japan realizes how dangerous microtransactions are.

I like the part of them releasing the odds like they do in China but I'm not very fond of this part of your post.

"For example, a game will have 5000 'points' that you can use to buy microtransactions with. Once you spend the equivalent of X points (typically hovering around equal values), then you have to wait until the beginning of the next month."