They often can't. A dozen people dying because they bought shitty chinese liquid marijuana vape cartridges is enough to get clamoring to ban nicotine vapes in the US, and have banned and are banning in a number of municipalities states.
Talk is talk, will they actually do it? I'd guess they will "gratiously compromise"on taxes and regulation. Meaning more money and power for them. Banning gives them neither. Just a bunch of votes from the people who wanted it. Maybye. In few years they will forget about it, and the bureaucrats will be stuck with a big, fat nothing.
I think microtransactions are nothing more than a good way to part dumb people from their money.
So are ponzi schemes, gambling, club priced alcohol (or alcohol in general if you push it), nicotine, and emails from nigerian princes. See the pattern there?
All either of questionable legality, or regulated and heavily taxed.
It's a pure luxury good that the majority of the time does nothing but change the colors and patterns of guns and characters.
Cosmetic ones, yes. But cosmetics are the proverbial camel's nose. Have you watched the video? Pure cosmetics aren't a dominating part of the MtX income for the big earners. There are 4 types of MtX, and the trick to getting rich on MtX is to offer most or all of them.
And hilariously enough, the most benign and justifiable form of MtX, extra content, is mentioned to be the least profitable because it takes actual effort and resources to create, so may well not necessarily bother with that one.
Once a game is developed with the payment system to do cosmetic, the temptation to do the other things will be strong, as most of the challenge is already in the past, the infrastructure to pay for in-game stuff being already there.
The rest of the time it's on free to play games so its literally the only way they can make money for a free product.
It's a wide statement, but as we see in few recent big news scandals, like Battlefront, that is slowly ceasing to be true. The corporate execs are still learning the things hinted at in the video i've linked.
Its the height of greed, sloth, and selfishness to think otherwise.
Yup. In a way. And that, in turn, means the MtX pushers have met their match. It's an awesome way to see it. It's a pitched battle of greed, laziness and selfishness of the sides involved.