• Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    No. I mean when the cap of a bottle of coke has prices or find the golden cookie and win a trip to NY. Those have a purchase required, and you can’t write to the company and get the to send you the price token for you ro exchange it for the price.

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      2 days ago

      Yes even the “collect the cap” ones have to provide a free alternate method of entry. The FTC at the federal level and all 50 states have these laws. Edit: just search on the phrase “free alternate method of entry” and you’ll get many hits explaining this.

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        2 days ago

        The US is truly a very weird country. In any case even if that’s the rule CS is a free game, so no purchase required to participate in the loot boxes. So I’ll ask again, how is that any different?