An anti-loot box bill will hit the US Senate today, and it already has bipartisan support
May 23, 2019 Josh Hawley's anti-loot box bill will be introduced to the US Senate today.
Earlier this month, Republican Senator Josh Hawley, of Missouri, announced that he is seeking to ban the sale of pay-to-win microtransactions and loot boxes. The bill is set to be formally introduced to the US Senate today, but Hawley has already garnered support from across the aisle, as two Democratic Senators have also expressed support for the measure.
Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, and Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, have both signed on. "Today’s digital entertainment ecosystem is an online gauntlet for children," Markey says (via The Verge). ”Inherently manipulative game features that take advantage of kids and turn play time into pay time should be out of bounds"
The bill Hawley has proposed specifically targets "games played by minors... whose developers knowingly allow minor players to engage in microtransactions", or games playable by children under the age of 18 - a rather broad label that basically encompasses all games. The bill is called 'The Protecting Children from Abusive Games Act.'
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