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http://www.pcgamer.com/belgium-says-loot-boxes-are-gambling-wants-them-banned-in-europe/Belgium confirms loot boxes are gambling, and is pushing to ban them from Europe altogether.
US waking up against loot boxes as well:
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As seen here:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/star-wars-battlefront-2/battlefront-2-loot-box-gambling-belgium-gaming-commissionI would just say it's about time, perhaps this will be the first steps that will start to regulate the unregulated gambling extravaganza that we know as Loot Boxes.
You can see that EA already came in defensive saying their loot crates are not gambling, Blizzard still to comment on it. I hope this goes forward because only legal regulations can defeat the paid RNG monetization trend.
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so online casinos and more recently CS:GO item wagering is considered gambling in belgium because one can lose what they wager and walk away with nothing
in loot boxes one never walks away with nothing, one can get something undesirable, but one will always get something.
so by current law in belgium loot boxes are not gambling. . .
If this growing trend continues, the future will be something like... Remember those days where we could buy what we wanted via microtransactions instead of gambling for it?
it is not a review of the gambling laws themselves.
belgium is not changing law to get rid of loot boxes.
and nice slippery slope fallacy at the end there. . .
Lets get a ruling on whether they are legally considered gambling. If so... get them the fuck out of kids games.
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. . .it is that simple, I don't write law. . .but I know how to read.
maybe you should go read the relevant belgian laws??
And I think people would agree the way these loot crates are presented in many games can create one addiction that we could call gambling.
It's a big reason of why I feel it should be properly regulated.
Don't you think the Belgian officials have read the relevant laws before launching the investigation. Whether they rule it as a gambling or not, they wouldn't be investigating if there weren't anything to investigate.
So if I open a casino, and always give people apples when they don't win money, and put the apples as of equal value to your cost... Am I excluded from gambling regulations?
You purchase a loot box at $5.
Anything that is in the loot box has precisely same cost $5.
Not all items in the loot box will have same value.
Therefore no gambling.
the study is not to find the effects of loot boxes on consumers or if it leads to real gambling, and therefore the law needs to be changes to include it. like they did with CS:GO item wagering.
P.S. I am sorry you are so sensitive that facts and reasoned discourse seem aggressive simply because they challenge your worldview. . .