Belgium May Classify Overwatch and Star Wars Battlefront 2 as Gambling

gambling? fre they kidding?

It kinda is gambling when they have kids spending tons of money for a small chance at something they want. Overwatch is just skins but for SWBF2 it's more than that.

This could be the beginning of something special.

This could hurt a lot of games, I don't see it stopping with just these titles. I hope it'd force them to publish odds but I can't imagine that would be enough to satisfy the powers that be. 

Cross-referencing with this article: "Disney's Diablo-Style Game, Marvel Heroes, Shutting Down"  https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/show/1811265/boards/gaming-news/News/disneys-diablo-style-game-marvel-heroes-shutting-down?replyPage=2#post-3140974 I can see why.

You buy the game with real money. You then buy unlocks for crates that give you random stuff with very poor chances on rare items using real money. And then the company pulls the plug on the game and you're screwed out of all that real money you spent.

It is gambling... and if the truth be told, it is criminal bait-and-switch fraud being perpetrated upon video gamers to farm them for real money.

The video game industry needs to drop this business model, or else the Law truly does need to step in and put a stop to the video game industry altogether... and seriously consider laying criminal charges against the companies committing  this fraud.

Meanwhile, knock yourselves out:

10 Effective Ways to Complain About a Company Online

https://www.desk.com/blog/10-effective-ways-complain-company-online

Doubt this will do anything but we can hope

I don't know about including Overwatch in this. Overwatch and Hearthstone both get so much flak, but they're probably the least predatory loot box systems out there- Gwent, too. They're games where you don't have to spend a lot of money, because the game doesn't make it too hard to get the loot boxes, and they give you some degree of control about what rewards you get by allowing you to get rid of things you don't want, to make the things that you do (or, in the case of Overwatch, giving you gold as a sort of "wild card" for crafting). I do kind of like the idea of this, to force companies to stop being so predatory, but I'm worried they'll throw the baby out with the bathwater.