NBA 2K20: My Team Mode displayed as a casino

NBA 2K20 has had the audacity to pull a MyTeam mode ad using casino games when lootboxes are being watched. The criticism against the game is being immense.

In recent years the issue of lootboxes is being closely watched. Overwatch popularized them and over time has made more than $ 1 billion, but they have faced accusations that compare these techniques to those of an online casino, only without being able to win money. 000K Games is not exempt from these controversies of wanting to exploit its players with a My Career mode that made you pay to advance and now they have raised the fury of the players with the recent announcement of the My Team mode of NBA 2K2.

NBA 2K20's My Team mode and it's practically a casino

Last Monday, an announcement of the My Team mode of the next NBA 2K2 was published on the UK 20K channel. One of the ways that players spend a lot of time, and also their money. But in that ad they have been so transparent that they have directly shown games typical of an online casino.

Throughout less than two minutes of video you can see how the protagonists of the advertisement excitedly open several lootboxes with cards for the game and play with joy a slot machine, a pachinko and a roulette wheel. Of course, they show how they get great prizes. Just showing the lootboxes shows the consumer's exploitation techniques, but the games taken from a Las Vegas casino round it out.

Users have been quick to criticize them for showing games related to gambling in NBA 2K20. In the video of the 2K account from the United Kingdom you can see how it has hardly any positive votes compared to negative votes.

This trailer couldn't come out at a more unfortunate time. Since Star Wars Battlefront II came out with a very abusive lootbox system a few years ago, people have been looking at whether it's legal to charge for opportunities to get random items in video games because it's almost gambling. The only thing that separates them from a casino is not being able to redeem the prizes for money as the UK legislators say. True, I cannot individually sell the legendary Overwatch skins that I have obtained over the years, but it does not mean that I am not buying the skins directly with my money and they are only obtained through chance and having to buy lootboxes.

Source: 2K UK Channel