"Except complaining wasn't directly responsible, Disney upset at what the backlash would do to their IP was."

Disney was upset because gamers blew up. Not because some Congressmen said something. At no point did the government actively do anything. It was the gamers that brought them to their knees...THE GAMERS.

The second regulatory bodies are brought in, the opinions of gamers won't amount to squat. No government listens to consumer wishes in the manner that a company does when it is under consumer fire. Governments do what they personally want and call it "for the good of the people" even though the people do not want it. It happens every day.

The people accomplish things in days or weeks. Governments, if they get something done, take for ever and what they do winds up as a case of the cure being as bad as the disease. Imagine them passing a law and stomping on the rights of gamers in a way impossible to estimate - and it is impossible to estimate. Are you so naive to think a law will state - no loot boxes and that is it. Oh no. How long do you think it would take, if ever, to get such law changed, adjusted, or reversed? Go ahead, screw gamers because that is what will happen when the government is invited to the party.

And the irony there is that government doesn't generally work because corporations are shoulder deep - if not deeper - into government. Between lobbyist and people who only insist that government doesn't work while wanting to get into government who then make it work less, yeah, we're pretty much screwed. I'm not naive.

Still, you're not doing much better in thinking gamers are having that much effect when there are at least three similar instances of what EA - not all of them done by EA mind you - much less that gamers have been dealing with less for years. From bugs becoming a standard accepted thing to DLC day one and acting as if it didn't effect overall game development. As many have defended as complained about that crap just as many are now.

And right now we are dealing with companies thinking that they're entitled to unlimited profits at the direct cost of game quality and content. We aren't going to stop that because "we" are not a group or a community, we are a market. One that the corporate gaming industry has reduced to formulas that get inserted into titles that often override their basic design which was meant for entertainment. Something needs to be put into place even if it becomes as bad as what it tries to fix. Cause at that point will do something and they will do it for the sake of the market as well as their profits.

I may not be doing much better but I am doing better period. At least I can see the cause and effect and I understand the danger of letting someone else wipe my butt.

You can call us a market if you want but it doesn't alter the fact one iota. The gamers, who happen to be the market (labels never alter the truth, just make some people that need them feel better) - they are selling games after all duh - moved on the issue and made a difference. They didn't need the government or some appointed government agency or representative. They, the gamers, the consumers (labels do not change the reality of who was responsible) made the difference necessary to affect matters. Government intervention is the nuclear option, a weapon of last resort, and one that wasn't and should not be introduced at this juncture. I can kill a fly with a hammer but I crack the table when I do. Now where am I?

Companies can think all they want about that to which they are entitled. As long as enough, not all, but enough gamers say no - in this case a 3 billion dollar no - then we can handle matters without legislative interference. The government that governs best is the one that governs least. Millennials may want those in power pushing a tit into their mouth because they are used to a life of babysitting but this latest incident proves such nursemaiding to be wholly unnecessary or welcome.