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Esrb will add a special tag for games that have micropayments

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Currently there is a trend widely used by the most important video game developers, which is to use micropayments or microtransactions, which add some type of utility, such as skins, loot boxes or experience bonuses in exchange for real money. This is not only used in online gaming, as in the beginning, it has also been moved to games that are exclusively for single player, such as Assassins Creed and many others.

ESRB to add logo for micropaid games

'American Entertainment Software Rating Board' (ESRB) is already on the lookout for this issue and will stamp a logo on games that carry some form of micropayments. The In-Game Purchases logo is placed on physical packaging and in digital stores.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an American organization that usually regulates the age ratings and content of consumer video games. The new label is a direct reaction to protests over loot box systems in games like Star Wars: Battlefront II, Need for Speed: Payback, or Destiny 2, and has signaled a willingness to legislate on them.

There is a hot debate on whether to buy loot boxes can be considered as a 'game of chance', since when you buy loot boxes, you do not know exactly what is going to happen to you, operating in a very similar way to ' slot machines '.

The new logo is expected to begin adding to games to be released this year.

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