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http://themediaplex.com/loot-boxes-gambling/ I wrote this during the EA shenanigan

if the writing feels a little stilted it's cause the editors are rigorous as hell

yeah ea and their dlc grinds my gears

by the time we're done with edits and rewrites any personal voice in our writing is more or less squished to make room for being objective and neutral

why isnt the font comic sans? triggered

heck u

Loot boxes are annoying, but, I don't understand why a law needs to be passed about it. (what I last heard)

gambling is illegal for minors, and if loot boxes are gambling, they are illegal for minors

Yeah, but that is a rather loose application of the word.

Honestly, I hate the damn things too.

i don't think it's loose

some lootboxes are straight out gambling

i dont understand loot boxes personally

i play videogames for the videogames not the cosmetics

In the past gambling was more about money being waged to get money back.

Under that thinking raffles should be banned. Not the exact same thing, but is paying money to maybe win something.

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Besides, if you are under 18 you are probably taking your parent's credit card, parents need to learn how to lay down some law themselves. XD

If the lootbox has no monetary value in the end, it can't be considered gambling.

That's in terms of actual law and implementation/lawyer interpretation.

true

You run into grey area with 3rd party markets tho

like for cs go

If the service itself allows you to sell items you win through a lootbox system, it will be considered gambling.

its a gray area

because the item is essentially valueless

Now, if people do this interaction themselves, against a terms of service between the lootbox company, then it's not considered gambling.

however 3rd party market sets a seperate value

As long as the third party is generally against the first party terms of service.

which is as simple as there is no in game market

parents need to control their own money anyways. PSN and XBox both let yet you place a seperate password to purchse. I dont know about blizzard, steam i think you can

I defenatly know it has a failsafe if the persons account is under 18

Parental controls have been a thing for quite a while.

PSN and XBox has it on over 18 accounts too

it helps against fraud. Like a purchasing 2 factor

My parental password would be something like: "Ibangedyourmom."

lol

You could use that argument with literally anything

My boys arnt old enough for it to matter yet

"What if they sell the prize to a random person?"