Belgian & Dutch gambling commissions are investigating Battlefront II, Overwatch and loot boxes in general

[poklane]

Birimbau said:

poklane said:
The Dutch gambling authorities are also investigating loot boxes in general: https://www.nu.nl/games/5009924/nederlandse-kansspelautoriteit-onderzoekt-lootboxen-in-games.html
We also don't have any laws allowing online gambling here. If the authorities find loot boxes to be online gambling the publishers have simply broken Dutch law. They might have to pull the games (or the microtransactions themselves) from the various online stores permanently if that's the case.

Or they simply give the middle finger and stop supporting their game and shut down the servers for the country. Which is not a problem at all, with VPN, I currently play a bunch of games via VPN because they are not supported in my country.

VPN isn't exactly a thing on consoles. I'm Dutch, if publishers would shut down their servers here because of this I and all other Dutch players would be fucked.