LogFAQs > #965401682

That is another point: Questions about regulating violence in games aside, paid loot boxes in games should absolutely mean it is as illegal to sell those games to minors as it is to sell that same minor a lottery ticket or welcome them into a casino. There's some (very little) room to debate whether or not loot boxes are technically gambling, given the lack of direct monetary reward, but it's unquestionably true that they have the same potential for mental and financial harm that real gambling has. Given that that potential for harm is the sole reason gambling is regulated, video games should see similar regulation. The only reason they don't is that those with the power to make those regulations understand nothing about gaming as a whole beyond "we get more lobbying money if we don't regulate them."