UK About to Ban Loot Boxes?

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i truly appreciate you being there brian. bringing in the darker jokes we need.

OK so what affect does loot boxes actually have on children, people keep saying "think of the children!" and "these are sooooo baaaddd!" but no one has said how they actually affect them, only what they think will happen. Has this ever translated, has any 15 year old started on loot boxes and then as a result of that "being trained to gamble" then gone off and lost every thing playing dice somewhere? If it has happened is it because of the loot boxes, or does that person have gambling tendencies so they liked the loot boxes more because of that. We keep insisting that violent games don't cause violence and we all really believe it, with good cause, but games definitely cause gambling addiction.... Think of this in different ways, imagine saying "kids are buying baseball cards and that's teaching them gambling" or "kids like toys so we have to ban them". People every where like games, and most people would like to add as much as they can to that experience, but kids are generally dumb and don't understand the concept of money so they haven't learned that loot boxes are a bad idea. May be before we start banning things we should try to teach them the value of money and loot boxes as well as the value of the games, just may be if kids had to earn the money for those packs (through chores and stuff, I'm not advocating child labor) they would choose to spend that money on something else. I keep saying it and I'm going to continue saying it, loot boxes are dumb and I don't like them and companies use some really bad methods to sell them but they are not gambling, you are buying digital goods, even if you don't know what they are. I'm also not going to try to tell people how to spend their money, I would never buy random loot boxes but if people do understand them and like them then why not? These government guys have been trying to destroy gaming for 30 years and while there really should be some regulation to it, you do NOT want the government to do it. They don't understand it and at best will screw things up, at worst will end up censoring and banning things that are not as bad as loot boxes and set the progress of games as art and as good things back years, if not decades. I guarantee that it will start with banning loot boxes and turn into banning violence, anything sex related, and if left unchecked right on down the line to stuff that makes you think, like the Hong Kong protest games. All that and there is the fact that if loot boxes are banned totally companies will find a way to get that money and it will likely be worse. It's a problem for sure but we need to find a way to deal with it that isn't giving assholes free rain to destroy gaming. This was another long one, weather you agree or not thanks for sticking with me.

I’ll make a petition to make Wales an independent country if the UK ban loot boxes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Thank you, Brian. I don't believe in the "New Year"

I appreciate that people are trying to ban loot boxes from PC and consoles games but no one has been pointing out mobile games with a good 90% of the games also have loot boxes

Wow,.. first world problems.

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