Literally Gambling

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When you buy a lootbox, or a card pack, or a key to open a crate, you are purchasing the chance to get some sort of reward that you, the player, wants.

In some games, like Counter strike and squad Fortress, these rewards can literally have real world monetary value because of the trading system. So when you do get really lucky with your lootbox, you can actually make your money back, or even make a profit.

And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to compare that interaction with literal gambling in online Online Casinos Netherlands all across the internet

Which is why many, many people have made this comparison.

governments around the world have slowly but surely been catching onto the fact that in that location are games marketed towards children that sell pre-packaged gambling addictions to the user. And they want to do something about it.

And I think more and more as time goes on, consumers want to do something about it too. But why are lootboxes, as good as other microtransactions like In-game Currency and the Battle pass system, so bad?