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

55 pointsby Daizover 7 years ago

5 comments

Artemixover 7 years ago
Thanks to premii, I was able to read the actual article, but fuck pcgamer.<p>If you try to access the website with disabled javascript or while blocking ads, you&#x27;ll be redirected to a HTML page that kinda only says &quot;We know you are using a blocking script and want you to disable it&quot;.
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baszalmstraover 7 years ago
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?
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manfredoover 7 years ago
This is interesting. What&#x27;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&#x27;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?
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rad_gruchalskiover 7 years ago
Like Kinder eggs. They should ban them too.
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adityapurwaover 7 years ago
Gambling is always bad, should ban them everywhere.