Belgium says loot boxes are gambling, wants them banned in Europe

[jason1637]

Ka-pi96 said:

jason1637 said:

Most games aren't AO because publishers don't allow them and retailers won't stock them. This can easily change IMO. For one Sony and Microsoft make games with loot boxes so they will just change their regulations. And retailers will follow because they will miss out on big blockbusters like CoD.

Why would retailers change their regulations instead of publishers? We've had decades without loot boxes in games... it's not exactly hard to start making games without them again...

If publishers change their regulations then gamers would just buy all the AO games digital and I doubt retailers like GameStop would want something like that to happen because it would destroy their business so they would have to follow what the publishers are doing.