Nintendo sued over "immoral" Mario Kart loot boxes and microtransactions.
A young gamer has filed a lawsuit against Nintendo in the US, calling out the "immoral" microtransactions within Mario Kart Tour. The suit calls for refunds for all minors in the US who paid to use the game's "Spotlight Pipes," which delivered in-game rewards using undisclosed odds. The suit claims that Nintendo intentionally made the game difficult to proceed without pay, using "dark patterns" and that the lootbox mechanism within the game reinforced addictive behaviors, likening it to gambling.