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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?"

XD

That's not the fault of the company.

It just seems like more stupid laws.

And agreed @Maw

If anything they are good

because it allows companies to market in gambling free areas

What does that even mean?

most states are anti gambling

It sounds like a whole lot of nothing.

XD

If lottories were deamed gambling none of those games would be allowed

Lotteries are not an argument

And the rather profitable for schools state lottos would be shut down

That is moneyfor money

directly

This came up many times before, and it was ruled that it's not considered gambling as long as the company doesn't actually give monetary value to anything.

This came up in the *60s*