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Abstract
This Note addresses the predatory nature of video game microtransactions, the serious risks they pose, and why an improved plan of legislative intervention is necessary to protect young, vulnerable video game consumers. With loot box microtransactions driving a flourishing industry that has reached unprecedented levels of success, adequate consumer protection cannot properly be achieved through self-regulation. Senator Josh Hawley’s Protecting Children from Abusive Games Act is a step in the right direction, but its broad language will result in unintended consequences that can cripple the entire industry. Revising the bill’s language will protect the intended young consumer and allow for other forms of microtransactions that do not harm consumers.
Recommended Citation
Dominick Tarantino,
LET'S STOP PLAYING GAMES: WHY BETTER CONGRESSIONAL INTERACTION IS REQUIRED TO PROTECT YOUNG GAMERS,
15 Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L.
543
(2021).
Available at:
https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/bjcfcl/vol15/iss2/9
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