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"Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 18 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/steam@programming.dev

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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to excuse Valve's involvement as they definitely shouldn't have joined on the wagon, but Valve jumped on an already existing wagon, they didn't create it. MapleStory did it like 6 years before Valve, and EA did it with FIFA almost a year before Valve with TF2.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The first FIFA game with lootboxes was 09 which came out in 2009. MapleStory's apparently did predate TF2's; but only by 3 years (2004 vs 2007), and it was only available in the Japanese version of the game.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

TF2 didn't originally have lootboxes though. They weren't added until the Mann crates in 2010

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 16 hours ago

Riiiiight.... Man, was it really that far away? It didnt feel like it back then.