Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo demand loot drop rate revealed

Booties have been controversial since they were introduced. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) held a workshop on controversial loot boxes in games this Wednesday, August 7, to discuss issues related to this method of distribution in games. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo announced a new initiative at the workshop, one that will require all games published on their platforms to reveal the possibility of receiving rewards.

Odds of earning loot box rewards will be revealed in all games starting in 2020

Some of the top publishers have also come together to declare that they will support the initiative, including Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Bungie, EA, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. and Wizards of the Coast. However, all of these announcements and statements apply to consoles, not PCs.

The goal is to launch this program in 2020, but a timetable has not been published. The objective appears to be to avoid any government regulatory effort.

This should help provide greater transparency to the loot boxes that we obtain by paying, something that has become common in countless online video games, in which we can get a completely random object. Starting in 2020, we should know exactly the percentage of probability that we will get 'legendary' objects or whatever they are called, data that currently remains hidden in the code of the games that implement it.

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