*You have attracted 15 country suspicious of your activities* It seems like... gambling IS gambling... what a surprise.
Mobile games. A lot of those rely to lootboxes to make profit. Games like Lineage 2 revolution, PUBG mobile, Arena of Valor, Summoners War, and so on. If the lootboxes is illegal, developer have fewer incentives to make games like those.
Wow, this is great news. After all, lootboxes need to be consigned to oblivion in order for better and fairer business models which do not exploit consumers to be invented. As such, I hope lootboxes will become illegal as that would be greatly beneficial for the gaming industry.
Warframe motherfucker, ever heard of it? Every single f2p should adopt their microtransaction policy.
Pay2Progress faster/Accelerate( AKA P2A), not Pay2Win(P2W). Apparently, EA completely FORGET about this. Money grubber... -_- They should adapt some of the sucessful model on Mobile Platform, like Honkai Impact 3 over miHoYo( despite lootboxes we call Gacha, they do have the thing call" Guaranteed Drop", which after a certain ammount of scrap, there will be a guaranteed ones at the designated turn of rolls, which you can finds their drop rates in the chart they printed in the announcement screen). As for microtransaction & lootboxes, It's a option, not obligation to do so, you have the right to not gambling on things you consider bad. But if the game forces you to lootboxes to get the thing that you don't want, then scrap the game. I don't say loot boxes are bad, but if the game are freemium, then that's the only thing to keep the dev keep the game/product of theirs afloat. But 60$ total for unlock things exclusive to payers on top of 60$ buying the game? Screw you. =_=
I wouldn't be gambling if you could just buy the item directly instead of a chance for it to appear. Some loot boxes for example an armor set, one piece will only have something like 1% chance or being randomed and then you get those people that have all of them but that one piece and then end up spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to try and get that last missing piece. They are so focused on it they don't even think clearly about how much they have spent until they get it. One case I read some guy spend $15,000 to get a single miss item piece. Clearly that guy had a problem but this is the effects of gambling.