Are lootboxes gambling?

Are lootboxes gambling?

Depends on why you buy them.
If you wish a specific item then sure you can call it a gamble.

forgot to add: should the be regulated as such?

yes

Don`t you need a certain age to purchase them,sure there is no actual check but i think its in the regulation.

Of course!

Yes. That being said, gambling should be legal.

I mean they're considered gambling in China, hence why Blizzard had to release information about their item drop rate IIRC.

>should they be regulated as such?

Yes, if only to spite the Jews who abuse them. The entire mobile games industry needs to be destroyed.

There's probably going to be another term created for buying digital items that have no value through and RNG system that's marketed toward children like how they refashioned the term of piracy to refer to copying intangible digital goods.

it would be gambling if anything you earned was of any value in real world currency. but it isn't, so it isn't gambling.

there are lots of laws and regulations defining what is and is not online gambling. if blizzard can get away with this, it's either because lootboxes are not gambling or because a giant company with millions of users somehow flew under the radar

maybe you should alert the authorities

In the same way Chuck E Cheese is gambling, there's an intermediate step that legally doesn't making it gambling

Money -> Money

Money -> Box(not exchangeable for money) -> Item(not exchangeable for money)

isn't gambling legal in america or what?

it is but there's myriad restrictions and taxes placed on online or interstate gambling that depends on what state you live in

Yes and they should be regulated and taxed by the government.

In the same way that booster packs for TCGs are gambling. If you are looking for one specific thing then yes, but the company also doesn't put monetary value on the items in the box. They just sell the box and say whatever you get is a bonus to you even if they have different rates for specific items.

absolutely.

Yes and no, no because moderation lies within the consumer at all times, this goes to all the sins of life, drugs, gambling, sex you name it.

It should be regulated and its called moderation.

For your health.

Great question!

>it would be gambling if anything you earned was of any value in real world currency.
but you can trade and sell the stuff on steam at least.

i think thats gambling.

that's an overwatch lootbox user. overwatch isn't on steam. steam games call them crates.

please STOP putting the state in everything you fucking assholes. we can't have anything good

if you don't like lootcrates boycott games that have it

Yes, but the habit of using them to gamble wouldn't be as great if getting them wasn't the only incentive to play the game.

Yes without a doubt.

If nothing else, developers should have to reveal rates and what can be obtained from a box.

yes because it kills EA's main audience of under 18s

No you bell ringing welsh fuck.

>if you don't like lootcrates boycott games that have it
a tiny percentage of people not buying the game or pirating it won't do anything. you can't change stupid.

Yes.

yes
yes

brb, gonna report them to EU Commission

No but they are cancer

Anything... as a service is ass-cancer and therefore faggotry.

Then it means the audience likes lootcrates, no need for the government to point guns at people

Is pic related gambling? Should this be regulated too?