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Loot Boxes, Pension Compensation and Bank Closures

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Can in-Game Purchases Encourage Gambling in Children?

20 consumer groups in 18 European countries said they were exploitative. Loopbox is banned in Belgium and Japan, in Netherlands and China. Australia's heading that way. Shouldn't they just be banned here and that would solve all the problems? I think they are becoming rarer. You see them less often in console games,. In those games, they're always disclosed the chance of getting a particular item before you make that purchase. So if they would say it's a thousand to one or something like that, then why in earth do they want to buy it? It's because of that excitement of the chance ofgetting something.

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