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Loot Boxes, Pension Compensation and Bank Closures

Money Box

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Two years ago, a House of Lords report recommended loot boxes be reclassified as gambling. Another two universities, Plimis and Wolverhampton, claims that they had robustly verified a link between loot boxes and problem gambling. Do you accept there's a problem with them? I think what we see is that there's some correlation in that behaviour, but that's quite different to causation. In the families that I work with and speak to, it's pretty rare that you have these kind of outlying cases. That's not to say it doesn't happen. The important thing really is to help parents understand what loot boxes are and connect them with the really clear information of the Peggy ratings

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