@goboard:I'm in for only for heavier gambling, the kind only M rated games like the first Witcher and virtual dice poker could give me
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@dudeglove: it's so weird seeing the first response of americans is to fear government intervention; as a EU citizien I tend (not always) to rejoice when the various commissions start to look into stuff like this. It really makes the different attitudes very apparent
Well if government intervention was free I think most people would be OK with it. However the model most governments follow is "OK, we're going to regulate X industry. It costs money for us to have employees enforcing these rules. Therefore there will be a special tax or fee on these companies to fund this oversight." On the face of it this seems fair. Except it has two effects in the end. 1) The company paying that fee passes the fee onto the consumer. 2) Smaller companies now have to pay even more money to develop their products and it is even more difficult to compete with the large companies.
Take, for example, the Food and Drug Administration in the US. This is a good service, it oversees products put on the market in an attempt to keep people safe. Let's put aside the argument if they even do this, let's just concede for the sake of argument they do their job 100% correct. OK well take a look at the processes in place to have a drug or product approved in the US. The costs and time are monumental. As a direct result drug manufacturers pass those costs to the people who need those drugs to live.
So consider that government intervention will make games more expensive for consumers at the very least.
@flashflood_29: We're currently trying to get our first match scheduled as @bollard and his team are operating on EU time. Right now we're probably gonna play this weekend!
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