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New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve
📰 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
👤 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
🕒 2026-05-21 18:20:00
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Valve公司已提交文件要求驳回纽约总检察长的诉讼，指控其Steam平台战利品箱构成非法赌博。公司主张战利品箱使用虚拟货币且无实际价值，不满足州法律对赌博的定义。
Valve have moved to dismiss a New York attorney general lawsuit accusing them of
facilitating illegal gambling
by way of lootboxes on Steam, after first seeking to
try it in the court of public opinion
. In a memo filed this week, the company offered a largely familiar defence against the New York AG lawsuit, hinging on the idea that randomised lootbox rewards can't be defined as gambling under state law, because they are bought with virtual currency (which can be used for other purposes) and have no 'real' value as cash or property.
They also position the lawsuit as an attack on free speech, while - to my eye, anyway - skirting around the claim that lootbox design and presentation can be inherently manipulative.
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facilitating illegal gambling
by way of lootboxes on Steam, after first seeking to
try it in the court of public opinion
. In a memo filed this week, the company offered a largely familiar defence against the New York AG lawsuit, hinging on the idea that randomised lootbox rewards can't be defined as gambling under state law, because they are bought with virtual currency (which can be used for other purposes) and have no 'real' value as cash or property.
They also position the lawsuit as an attack on free speech, while - to my eye, anyway - skirting around the claim that lootbox design and presentation can be inherently manipulative.
Read more