Not a chance. One small market made a change, that will be (if not already) challenged in court. Since most of their games predate the change in law, even if enforced, they (and all companies) would be allowed time to make changes.
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Did you just call Belgium/Netherlands, plus the entire 500+ million continet of consumers, a small market?:)
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Compared to US, UK, China yes. Belgium has a total population of 11.35 million and Netherlands 16.94 million. California has more total population than both combined. This is not an EU law at this time, so it is at this time, a small market.
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Very true. But you know, what happens in Bruxelles, France, Germany, Netherlands trickles down in all EU member countries.
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then it will become cost issue, does the EU make up 4 BILLION in sales? Personally I do not know, but that is what Activision made on MTX in 2017. If it does not, Eu may just start losing access to AAA games. Companies are going to do what they need to do to protect profits.
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Edited by SanctifiedN7: 4/27/2018 5:14:33 PMAbsolutely good points. But EU is a complicated animal, who will compesate the loss of a few AAA companies and their revenues by accepting others, who do not use illegal like gambling mechanics that endanger young consumers(not that they give a s**t about the children). Just the optics. It's good politics to bash this devs/publishers.
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Personally, I prefer the Fortnite BR model, of sell outright but charge more for it. That way I know what I am getting and they still make their funds.
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Oh hell yeah. Even though, i consider FN for the stupids:) Just a matter of taste and useless personal opinion.
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I always stress the BR when talking about fortnite in mtx discussions as their PVE side is horrible, not only is it paid (near AAA prices on low end and well above on high end) early access, it is lousy with loot boxes (llamas). I don't care for the game myself, but I know they are making a mint off of 10-20 dollar skins in the MTX store.