• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ooh. I like that. We should do that too. Just the microtransaction-based ones, not all online games. Decent subscription-based games should be exempt.

    And I say that as someone that wishes he could be a Supercell fan. Used to be a huge one.

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      1 year ago

      To be clear, this ruling seems to be online gaming as in gambling, not video games

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        1 year ago

        Ah, well, that’s not bad either. Frankly they should just expand it though. It’s not like gatcha games aren’t a sort of gambling enterprise.

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          1 year ago

          This is frankly fantastic news. You just need to classify gacha as gambling and you’re done. This is probably way easier than to legally define what a gacha game is.

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    1 year ago

    Did not expect India to be the one to push back on the predatory behavior of micro transactions. Having lived in India for a long time, I’m not sure how much of it is greed but still a positive outcome I guess!

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      1 year ago

      From what I read, the tax is on online gaming as in gambling, apps, not gacha-style microtransactions. Still a good thing though.

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      1 year ago

      Modi is least bothered by financially predatory behaviour, his govt is desperately trying to raise funds.

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    1 year ago

    But where else are they supposed to spend all that hard-earned money from scamming senior citizens

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      1 year ago

      I hope you know the small population of people doing this are considered scum by the rest of India and even if you meant it as a joke it sucks to categorize a country filled with many kinds of people as scammers.

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      1 year ago

      These days? Buying tomatoes which have become super-expensive in India (prices are almost 10x the usual). Fuel (petrol, diesel, and cooking gas) are also very expensive. India is facing runaway inflation coupled with high unemployment.