Hawaiian lawmakers have introduced 2 bills that would ensure that games which feature loot-boxes or loot-crates will prohibit sales to only those who are over 21 years old. The legislature defines loot boxes/crates as “a randomized in-game reward that can be bought for real money”. A further two bills, if passed, will require games with such systems to be prominently labelled as having such systems and to disclose probability rates of receiving each reward in the loot-box.
In similar news, United States Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) called on the ESRB to review their practices on games that feature predatory loot-box systems. In a letter to the video game ratings board, Senator Hassan urged the organization to take into consideration to take loot boxes into account when rating games. She specifically took umbrage to the fact that games with such systems were still being sold to minors.
