The regulatory battle against loot boxes and card packs in games continues. Just a week or so after reports that The Belgian Gaming Commission is hitting EA with a criminal investigation for not removing FIFA’s card packs from the game in that country, several gambling regulators have unified to tackle the problem.
Belgian and Dutch lawmakers have decided that Loot boxes and their ilk are no different to gambling, which is why we’ve seen sweeping changes regarding the things in Benelux regions. Just recently 2K has changed the Loot box structure in NBA 2K18. Players in Belgium can no longer buy that game’s MyTeam packs with real money. The same now goes for Overwatch.
"The mixing of money and addiction is gambling," says Belgium's Gaming Commission, who now wants predatory loot boxes in games banned throughout Europe.
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