Nintendo / Sony / Microsoft policy to obligate “probability disclosure of gacha”


by

Hello I'm Nik GB

Entertainment Software Association (ESA), an industry group in the US computer game industry, created a new policy to obligate the disclosure of the probability of the root box (gacha) by three major game machine manufacturers, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft Revealed that they are working on.

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft to require loot box odds disclosure | GamesIndustry.biz
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-08-07-nintendo-sony-microsoft-to-require-loot-box-odds-disclosure

Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo won't allow loot boxes on consoles unless publishers disclose drop rates? Eurogamer.net
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-07-microsoft-sony-nintendo-wont-allow-loot-boxes-on-consoles-unless-publishers-disclose-drop-rates

Michael Warneck, who works in ESA's technical policy department, was in charge of an in-game gacha hosted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in August 2019. We revealed that we are working to make Gacha's probability disclosure obligations.

“We are pleased to announce that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have agreed to the new platform policy for paid gachas that exist in games developed for each platform. `` For new games that add gacha functions or new gachas that are implemented through updates, it is necessary to disclose the emission rate of items that can be obtained with gacha. '' I am revealing that.

“Similarly, many of ESA's leading video game publishers have implemented a similar approach at the publisher level, providing consumers with gacha emission information and additional information to help users decide whether to buy. Was decided to offer. '


by Rosie Kerr

In addition, ESA has announced details regarding the mandatory obligatory disclosure of gacha, and each platform is aiming to implement a new policy by 2020. The ESA member companies that promised to release a release on Gacha's probability disclosure are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bethesda, Bungie, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros., Wizards of the Coast.

ESA publishers who have not received consent for Gacha's probability disclosure are 505 Games, Capcom, CI Games, Deep Silver, Disney Interactive Studios, Epic Games, Focus Home Interactive, Gearbox Publishing, GungHo, Intellivision Entertainment, Kalypso, Konami , Magic Leap, NCsoft, Natsume, Nexon, Rebellion, Riot Games, Sega, Square Enix, THQ Nordic, Tencent, Marvelous.

In addition, the App Store, an iOS app store provided by Apple, made it mandatory to disclose the probability of Gacha in December 2017. Google Play, an app store that Google also offers for Android, has made obligatory disclosure of the probability of gacha early in 2019.

Apple obliges `` Gacha's probability disclosure '' with root box measures-GIGAZINE



in Game, Posted by logu_ii