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Belgium says loot boxes are gambling, wants them banned in Europe

by Daiz on 11/21/17, 11:54 PM with 20 comments

• by Artemix on 11/22/17, 10:13 AM

  Thanks to premii, I was able to read the actual article, but fuck pcgamer.

  If you try to access the website with disabled javascript or while blocking ads, you'll be redirected to a HTML page that kinda only says "We know you are using a blocking script and want you to disable it".

• by baszalmstra on 11/22/17, 7:58 AM

  How do loot boxes compare to all the different kind of booster packs out there in terms of gambling? I feel there is little difference, should they then be banned too?

• by manfredo on 11/22/17, 1:57 AM

  This is interesting. What's the difference between a lootbox earned in game, vs the act of killing a mob or raid boss and having the RNG determine what drop you get? You can't pay for the latter with real money, but you do need to put in more gaming hours (and thus pay more real money for a subscription) in order to get good drops. So in effect you still have to indirectly pay for the chance to get loot. Would this make all forms of random drops gambling?

• by rad_gruchalski on 11/22/17, 12:58 AM

  Like Kinder eggs. They should ban them too.

• by adityapurwa on 11/22/17, 2:01 AM

  Gambling is always bad, should ban them everywhere.