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

[jason1637]

Ka-pi96 said:

jason1637 said:

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.

Gamers could buy those games digitally... they also could just buy different games instead, ones that aren't filled with shitty loot boxes and stuff. Seems like a big risk for game publishers just because they want to be stubborn.

Of course if governments could close the digital sales loophole as well. When I made my Skybet account I needed age verification to use it. Considering they are trying to class loot boxes as gambling... they should really enforce the same rules for them...

Gamers will still buy the games with lootboxes digitally because most gamers don't care about loot boxes. Micro transactions are starting to make more money than games and I doubt publishers are going to let go of that much revenue especially when the average gamer supports games like FiFA, CoD and Overwatch etc.