Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games

• utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Uno can be gambling too if you start to bet on round. Anything can be gambling if you want it to but poker with non convertible tokens isn’t gambling. Betting on players also would be gambling. Anything can become gambling. If you think that’s an overstatement look at predictive markets to see how broad bettable events can be it’s amazing scary.

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  • freeman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So it’s not about all decks being the same.

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    • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What I tried to express is that when decks are

      • NOT the same
      • AND are sealed
      • AND there is a distribution of the content (namely some rare and non rare items)

      then the purchase of that deck itself is gambling.

      That does not imply anything about other situation, namely decks that are all the same can still be used for gambling when there are played with rules that do introduce randomness.

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