Loot crates are okay, but anything that’s obviously and explicitly gambling, like a slot machine, is not okay. Just avoid it. Don’t roll the dice for DevEx in the future. 6 Likes TUS_2 (TUS_2) July 6, 2020, 5:19pm #3 According to Roblox community rules, Dangerous, unethical and illegal activities.
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Loot boxes are common in many games, including FIFA, Overwatch, Roblox and Mario Kart Tour, and while the loot boxes are called different names depending on the game, the premise behind them is the same.
Since then, handfuls of publishers including Nintendo, Blizzard, and Konami have stopped sales of loot boxes in Belgium, as well as other territories that no longer permit it under law.
Although there have been efforts in the United States to regulate loot boxes through legislation —and a Federal Trade Commission workshop raised the issue of loot box regulation—currently no legal consensus exists in the United States around the illegality of loot boxes.
Regulation and legislation Because of their use of random chance to gain items after committing real-world funds, games using loot boxes may be considered a form of gambling.
Learn more. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency (which is similar to the United States' Federal Trade Commission) has declared the once-ubiquitous mobile-social game mechanic of “complete gacha” to be illegal, according to a report today from Andriasang. The ban officially goes into effect on July 1.
Loot Crate was founded in 2012 by Chris Davis and Matthew Arevalo, who aimed to create a "comic-con in a box". By 2014 the company had over 200,000 subscribers in 10 countries.
Despite the common misbelief under some western game developers, loot boxes (“gacha”) are not prohibited in Japan under gambling or consumer laws. In fact, Japan is the birthplace and "Eldorado of loot boxes".
Are Loot Boxes Legal? Today, with a few exceptions, most forms of loot boxes remain legal and unregulated worldwide. However, proponents of loot box regulation argue that the chance and rarity mechanics make loot boxes akin to gambling and constitute predatory practices toward minors.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says yes. Recently, the WHO officially recognized "gaming disorder" as a mental health condition — adding the disorder to the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11, the organization's official diagnostic manual, according to CBS News.
Loot boxes are liked more by console gamers (59%) and mobile gamers (58%) than PC players (41%). PC players (42%) expressly dislike loot boxes more than console (35%) and mobile (23%) gamers.
The Gambling Commission has said the Gambling Act 2005 doesn't cover loot boxes and it therefore cannot use any of its regulatory powers to take action.
A report by researchers at the universities of Plymouth and Wolverhampton has found strong links between loot boxes and gambling. The research has concluded that loot boxes are “structurally and psychologically akin to gambling” and that large numbers of children are spending real and in-game currency on them.
A Loot Box is a crate that will spawn only in the Darkzone, it can contain raw materials up to celestial rarity.
It can drop practically any ore/wood currently existing in the game (Not including event ores/wood)