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

[Nem]

vivster said:

Nem said:

No, a card is a physical toy. It's not about the value associated with it. 

A child buys a booster of cards and they 100% get a toy.

A child buy a lootbox, they get no toy. They keep clicking the button until they feel they do.

Has nothing to do with 21st century, just reality.

So you're saying it's impossible to play with digital goods? Oh god, somebody tell the people who buy their games digitally! Also someone should tell those stupid kids with their gameboys that they're not actually playing with toys and are actually having no fun whatsoever and completely wasted their money.

 

If this is not about value then your arbitrary line between paper and digital goods hasn't any value either. Everything is about value. And value can be applied to basically anything. And that's what it's about.

You are not making any sense. A gameboy IS a toy. Buying a digital game is NOT the same as gambling for upgrades in order to be relevant.

I think you are confused. This article talks about the connection between gambling and games on children. 

But if you want to go there, i disagree with what you are saying. It is gambling because you are spinning the roulette in hopes to get a prize. That prize doesn't necessarely need to have real world money value, just be necessary or wanted. It's the addiction it triggers through randomization and real life money cost with no fix value on an item that is not physical.

So, as you see we have a fundamental disagreement on the concept.