Is Loot a Roguelike Feature?

Loot is going to be mostly concentrated in games like Farmville or these consumption based kind of you know slot machiney social games and stuff like that the loot mechanism is not something that comes from long long history of games. I came into roguelikes from playing RPGs such as Fallout and Baldo's Gate so for me loot is very much not a roguelike feature. Items that change the way you play the game that give you a new ability that you can't use are potentially very interesting this is one of the reasons why still stick by net hack after all this time because many of the items there do give you special and unique abilities  that can't really be made up for