The Government of Spain is working on a new regulation on betting houses, their advertising and location. It appears that the Government has considered adding an appendix to the rule regarding loot boxes. This type of checkout box that 'gives you' a random object could be considered gambling and therefore could be illegal.
Remember that all this comes from Electronic Arts in one of their games he went through braking with the loot boxes. You had to spend a lot of money on microtransactions, more than 4.000 euros, to have all the elements of the game. But above all the problem is that all free games add it and generate more money than the sales of the games itself.
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Loot boxes could be regulated in Spain
Virtually all current games have loot boxes built in as they are highly lucrative. The problem is that children have very easy access to them and there is not the slightest control. All this could lead to a problem of gambling, since it encourages you to spend money to obtain rare or complicated objects.
These instruments, widely used by the video game industry to retain the user by unlocking achievements or objects that allow progress in the development of the game, are equivalent to a game of chance and can incite compulsive consumption behaviors associated with chance, similar to those of a slot machine.
This may represent a new gateway to the consumption of games of chance by children and adolescents, often with the ignorance of parents, who are unaware that the video game, free to access, incorporates such harmful dynamics.
According to the Spanish Association of Videogames (AEVI), in 2018 only 1.530 million euros were generated in Spain in microtransactions. And is that all free games have integrated micro-payment systems such as loot boxes, tricks, improvements and others.
Source: ED
