Children can’t chat online but they can play digital pokies. Sounds legit.
Wonder how much money went under the table here. FIFA is an enormously powerful organization.
EA, not FIFA. The games are nowadays not even called FIFA anymore.
The loot boxes require skill? How?
Found this study, but no mention of skill influencing the outcome of opening a loot box.
That quote caught my eye, too. I can only hope it’s either a mistranslation or clumsy wording, because there’s no way clicking a button labeled “open” requires any kind of skill.
The decision does not apply to every game, instead the courts would have to look at each game to see if loot boxes would be considered gambling or not.
From the article:
The Supreme Court of Austria has ruled that the loot boxes in the FIFA games do not constitute gambling as they do require some skill.
GamesMarkt reports that the justices in Vienna have decided that the specific game mechanic in FIFA Ultimate Team is not gambling, but they also state that loot boxes can be gambling. To be specific, loot boxes and the games they are part of need to be taken together on this matter.
“In this video game, despite the random allocation of individual digital content from the Packs, the human player can use their own skills to control the course of the game with a probability suitable for success, thus establishing a rational expectation of winning,” the court concluded.
Apparently it’s not about the loot box itself but that what you get out of it is used in a game that involves skill.
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