Nintendo Faces Loot Box Lawsuit Over 'Immoral' In-Game Monetization

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The video game goliath shut down its randomized 'gacha pipe' micro-transaction system in October 2022, but the company is still facing flack.

Mario Kart Tour“Plaintiff almost never received any valuable reward from the Spotlight Pipes he had purchased during his time playing Mario Kart Tour and would not have made the amount of in-game purchases that he did had he known the true odds of his being able to obtain any reward from the Spotlight Pipe, or that he would not be allotted a refund,” noted the legal filing.

Gizmodo reached out to Nintendo for comment, but did not receive a response as of publication time.This is not the fist lawsuit filed against a video game company for sketchy in-game purchase systems. Google, Apple, Valve Corp., and others have all faced legal complaints for the promotion and creation of games that included microtransaction systems essentially indistinguishable from gambling.

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