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Thread: EA's loot crate infringing upon gambling? Could future changes to gaming impact GSIV?

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    The only tie this kind of product has with legitimate gambling is the risk compulsive and erratic spending. It's no different than buying a pack of magic the gathering cards. You might get a rare card, you might not. Spend enough money and statistically you'll get a good prize, gain an advantage over someone else, and increase your level of entertainment.

    Unlike magic, however, you can't resell what you gain.

    I work in the casino gaming industry, and the types of regulations gambling has to adhere to is far more tied to monetary gains than just about anything else. Without the potential to win a currency or item that can be considered an asset, they would have a hard time making this fall under the gambling regulations.

    It does deserve some form of regulation, however. There needs to be a method of addressing video gaming addiction (which is really just obsessive behaviour), but the percentage of actual addicts is still fairly low.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maerit View Post
    The only tie this kind of product has with legitimate gambling is the risk compulsive and erratic spending. It's no different than buying a pack of magic the gathering cards. You might get a rare card, you might not. Spend enough money and statistically you'll get a good prize, gain an advantage over someone else, and increase your level of entertainment.

    Unlike magic, however, you can't resell what you gain.

    I work in the casino gaming industry, and the types of regulations gambling has to adhere to is far more tied to monetary gains than just about anything else. Without the potential to win a currency or item that can be considered an asset, they would have a hard time making this fall under the gambling regulations.

    It does deserve some form of regulation, however. There needs to be a method of addressing video gaming addiction (which is really just obsessive behaviour), but the percentage of actual addicts is still fairly low.
    Yeah but the difference here is fuck EA with a cactus jackhammer dildo.

    You too Simu with digs and also with your fake WPS stuff just because. Cunts.
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    Loot Boxes Are Not Gambling, New Zealand Says

    Loot boxes do not constitute gambling, according to New Zealand's gambling regulation group. The Gambling Compliance department of its Department of Internal Affairs told Gamasutra this week that "the Department is of the view that loot boxes do not meet the legal definition of gambling."

    In a statement, the DIA's Trish Millward said she is aware of the international discussion around loot boxes in video games in the wake of the controversy surrounding Star Wars: Battlefront II. The reasons loot boxes do not meet the legal definition of gambling, she said, is because "gamers do not purchase loot boxes seeking to win money or something that can be converted into money."

    Spending real money to buy a loot box that only gives you a chance to get something may "appear to be gambling," Millward admitted, but they do not meet the legal definition. As such, the DIA "has no ability to regulate the activity under the Gambling Act 2003.

    https://www.gamespot.com/articles/lo.../1100-6455608/
    Like I said, not gambling! New Zealand agrees with me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelston View Post
    Like I said, not gambling! New Zealand agrees with me!
    They should still consider it gambling even if only on EA games because EA.
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