Indie Dev Radar

A leaked draft of the EU's Digital Fairness Act would ban selling loot boxes, pay-to-win mechanics and paid virtual currencies to minors, and require parental approval for "pay-to-progress" and other compulsion-driving features. European games trade bodies Video Games Europe and EGDF jointly rejected the proposal as "unworkable, unjustified and disproportionate," warning it would damage the European games industry, and called for reassessment. The proposal now goes to the European Parliament and Council.

Mike Charniatsou of Flo explains on the Sub Club podcast that Flo keeps core cycle tracking free and converts users later, when they move into trying to conceive, pregnancy or perimenopause, so 40% of subscriptions happen six months or more after install. He argues that paywall conversion is not a monetization strategy and suggests auditing at year end whether reported experiment uplifts actually showed up in business growth.