Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Belgium: Loot Boxes Are Gambling

quote [ Last week, Belgium's Gaming Commission announced that it had launched an investigation into whether the loot boxes available for purchase in games like Overwatch and Star Wars Battlefront 2 constitute a form of gambling. Today, VTM News reported that the ruling is in, and the answer is yes. ]

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Google translated text of VTM news article:
Reveal
Minister of Justice wants to ban purchases in video games, if you do not know what exactly you are about with that purchase. "Mixing gambling and gaming, especially at a young age, is dangerous for the mental health of the child."

The fuss arose last week around the new game Star Wars: Battlefront. In it you could first buy so-called 'loot crates', virtual boxes that could provide certain benefits for the game. Only you do not know in advance what the content of such a lootcrate entails.

"The mixing of money and addiction is gambling", the Kanspel Committee then ruled. VTM NIEUWS brought the news and a few days later removed maker Electronic Arts the function from the game, including after criticism from Disney, which has the rights to the Star Wars merchandising.

Geens now wants to prevent such functions from being able to occur in games at all. "But that takes time, because we have to go to Europe. We will certainly try to ban it. "

Hawaii is also investigating: Hawaii Wants To Fight The "Predatory Behavior" Of Loot Boxes

Washington Post overview of the whole loot box situation (wherein they feel the need to explain it in terms of playing chess, because old people): How a Star Wars video game faced charges that it was promoting gambling
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[by Ankylosaur]
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Ankylosaur said @ 12:10am GMT on 23rd November
A FDA rule from the 1930s about "non-nutritive" inclusions in food, that was probably originally written to address things like using wood to make artificial pips in jam or using sawdust as sausage filler, has been interpreted to outlaw the large, unchokeonable capsules Kinder puts inside chocolate.
Ankylosaur said @ 12:12am GMT on 23rd November
A FDA rule from the 1930s about "non-nutritive" inclusions in food, that was probably originally written to address things like using wood to make artificial pips in jam or using sawdust as sausage filler, has been interpreted to outlaw the large, unchokeonable capsules Kinder puts inside chocolate.

Why fortune cookies aren't also prohibited is a mystery.

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Ankylosaur said @ 12:10am GMT on 23rd November
A FDA rule from the 1930s about "non-nutritive" inclusions in food, that was probably originally written to address things like using wood to make artificial pips in jam or using sawdust as sausage filler, has been interpreted to outlaw the large, unchokeonable capsules Kinder puts inside chocolate.

Why fortune cookies aren't also prohibited is a mystery.

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