EU can't stop regulate everything. Last week they say they should regulate a lot less but that was the same EU bureaucrats that talk talk, promise and don't do anything good, just make impossible to do anything in digital space.
When you have companies using every dirty trick in the book to generate more revenue from microtransactions and their product is specifically targeted to minors, I can't say this is surprising. [1]
If by “impossible to do anything”, you mean “anything that’s deeply anti-consumer”, then yes you’re right.
However having worked at several EU companies of various sizes, I can tell you that it’s very easy to operate in the EU if you don’t choose to exploit your customers.
This has the same vibes as BP talking about the co2 footprint and personal responsibility.
Like… why are you defending the companies that took the hobby of millions of people (video games) and turned it into the equivalent of selling drugs to little kids in the school yard using every dirty trick in the book you make them purchase something in their games.
