Before the summer, it was the Swedish horse-themed MMO that had placed egregious microtransaction practices firmly within the EU's crosshairs. As the consequences are set to ripple across the industry, industry leaders are speaking out!
Chaos reigns as with a single update to Counter Strike 2, Valve have wiped out nearly $3 billion in player inventory values.
Microsoft asked Xbox to proportionally make as much profit as Nintendo, and three times as much as PlayStation. And then they started cutting.
They said players didn't want it, that things would never go back to how they were... Despite that, Activision (scared by BF6?) have not only rolled back "Fortnite-/enshitification" of their cosmetics, but they've gone ahead and removed Skill-Based Matchmaking AND disbanding lobbies too?!
In April, the EU tried to regulate in-game monetisation. Six months later, the EU games industry is trying to warn just how badly it could go.