ESRB finally adds paid lootboxes on labels

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ream-headlines-as-teen-blows-gbp3000-on-packs
FIFA and the thorny issue of loot boxes have once again hit the mainstream headlines after a UK teen revealed he had blown £3000 on Ultimate Team packs.

The BBC 5 Live Investigations Unit today published an investigation into FIFA loot boxes based on the testimony of a 21-year-old Brit called Jonathan Peniket who, as a teenager, spent the savings his parents' had given to him for his future on packs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53337020
Like many teenagers, Jonathan Peniket enjoyed buying random player "packs" to build up his team on the Fifa football video game.

But when his mum was diagnosed with cancer, his spending on these packs, or "loot boxes", became - as he sees it - an addiction he couldn't control.

As the whole story lacks of EA's response "we do think... surprise mechanics... ethical" I'm not placing this in the bs thread.
 
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