Immersive and addictive technologies report 09/13/19

Katarina Softpaw·Sep 14, 2019·1 votes·4,123 views

Immersive and addictive technologies - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport - House of Commons

Riot, just curious on your thoughts regarding this report from the EU. It's actually very thorough. I do have a few questions to get things started!

What is Riot games official public stance regarding Immersive and addictive technology?
Does Riot games plan to be proactive or more self governing with how this technology is used to monetize in game content.
Does Riot has an official response to the quotes regarding its own uses of this technology found in the report?

5 Comments

ModUlanopoSep 14, 20193 votes

As has been mentioned, this really doesn't belong here. It would be a much better fit for General Discussion.

That said, there isn't going to be a Riot response to this, ever.

11.In contrast, we were struck by how difficult it was to get full and clear answers from some of the games and social media companies we spoke to and were disappointed by the manner in which some representatives engaged with the inquiry. We felt that some representatives demonstrated a lack of honesty and transparency in acknowledging what data is collected, how it is used and the psychological underpinning of how products are designed, and this made us question what these companies have to hide. It is unacceptable that companies with millions of users, many of them children, should be so ill-equipped to discuss the potential impacts of their products.

When a legislative body turns to a corporation and basically demands they describe in detail the ways in which they not only collect data, but monetize their product, that's not going to end well. Between that and the highly confrontational tone, if I were Riot, I would not respond to anything short of the UK equivalent of a subpoena.

GatekeeperTDSSep 14, 20191 votes

This is a place to discuss the boards. Riot is not going to come here and answer these questions for you. Even if they did, it would be a fucking PR nightmare to go on record with any statements regarding this political horseshit.

SEKAISep 14, 20191 votes

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This is a place to discuss the boards. Riot is not going to come here and answer these questions for you. Even if they did, it would be a fucking PR nightmare to go on record with any statements regarding this political horseshit.

There is no political horseshit.

What they're doing is no more different to calling regulation at the time when smoking was everywhere, even children were smoking packs per day (or you can look at the recent issues regarding vaping being unchecked). There's nothing wrong with regulating things being abused, and things tend to be abused when it isn't regulated since people just can't keep their hands to themselves and behave when there is no law.

GatekeeperTDSSep 14, 20193 votes