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

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vivster said:

GribbleGrunger said:
I wonder where they were with mobile games? I'm totally against lootboxes and I'm glad people are talking about cracking down on it but I find it really odd people are talking about it now.

Probably because a certain kind of consumer constantly disregards and suppresses anything mobile gaming. It's not "real gaming" after all.

OT: I'm interested in what's gonna happen with TCGs and CCGs, the grandfathers of all lootboxes and traditionally exclusively marketed towards children.

TCG's are boosters of X physical cards. They still give you a physical product. Game lootboxes give you abstract rewards. Just electronic numbers.

So, they will likely be unaffected.