"The mixing of money and addiction is gambling," says Belgium's Gaming Commission, who now wants predatory loot boxes in games banned throughout Europe.

A tale of two galaxies apart, Star Wars Battlefront II is a big stride forward in the right direction that's yanked strongly backwards by overly complicated and predatory business decisions.

It wasn’t meant to be like this. Slipstreaming off the success of 2015’s successful reboot of the Need For Speed franchise (after a few months of patching, much to the chagrin of fans who pined endlessly for the return of a pause button), Need For Speed: Payback should have been a winner. It should have been a V8 heart-stopper in …

Star Wars Battlefront II is out today, bringing FPS combat from a galaxy far, far away to your consoles and computers. Its microtransactions have been a contentious issues, nearly setting the internet on fire – mostly because they’re predatory, and they directly impact progression through the game. It appears your voices have been heard, at least for now.

Lootboxes (and their associated microtransactions) are a contentious issue. While many appear to have no issues at all with the systemsome find them analogous to gambling. In Belgium, any sort of gambling - digital or not - needs to have a permit from the country’s gaming commission. They’re now investigating whether Star Wars Battlefront II (and Overwatch) lootboxes are akin to gambling.

Need For Speed Payback is a game built around the most cringe-worthy of dialogue, quotes so shockingly cheesy that your eyeballs are in danger of rolling out of your head with enough force to puncture your skull. Nowhere else in the game is that fact more apparent than in the Street Leagues. You’re racing around the city of Silver Rock to gain allies, leaders of gangs who each operate according to a certain discipline and spout out lines that reads like bad fan fiction.

Reddit might have you assuming that EA is doing damage control to prevent players from refunding Battlefront II orders. But that's not the case at all.

Amid a large storm of backlash following pricing during the game's Early Trial, EA have adjusted how much Hero characters are to cost in Star Wars Battlefront II.