Online gambling (including CSGO stuff), getting attention in Oz. Good article (not sure about the proposed policy yet), aside from the stupid URL
just-when-we-got-used-to-kids-dying-or-killing-on-screen
Seriously?
Legislation could make it illegal for games to seek payment for items of varying value according to chance, as is the case in Japan. There could be minimum age requirements on paying to play, and games could be required to carry clear warnings of gambling content
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The scale of eSports gambling in Australia is unclear but it is believed to be widespread. As a clue, 9000 people placed skin bets on a Counter-Strike match involving Sydney teams that 3000 people watched live on Thursday night. The match was equivalent in profile to a weekly NRL match.
NRL (Rugby) is our second largest football code, fyi, but those viewing numbers seem way low.