15 Countries, Plus Washington State, Investigating Loot Boxes And Gambling

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15 European gambling committees, alongside Washington State, are investing loot boxes and their links to gambling. While mainly focused on skin betting sites commonly associated with CS:GO, the in-game gambling of Overwatch, FIFA, and NBA 2K are also being eyed.

In addition, Australia has recently published a study determing that loot boxes are indeed hard to distinguish from gambling, and exploit those with associated problems. Ouch.

Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-09-17-15-european-gambling-regulators-unite-to-tackle-loot-box-threat
https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/17/loot-boxes-australian-study/



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