Meanwhile, across the globe in Hawaii, down-with-the-kids Democrat politician Chris Lee added more fuel to EA's fire by publicly calling for legislation to end the sale of loot boxes to minors. The chances of that happening seems very low.' Only if this becomes a concerted international movement against video games gambling would things change. Even if somehow it happens, I don't think it would actually change very much at all. 'TLDR - don't read much into Belgium news yet. Responding to the Belgian commission's latest statement, UK gaming lawyer Jas Purewal noted the country still had 'no considered policy position, no stated strategy' and that 'gambling authorities move slowly on the whole'. It sounds decisive, but it's worth treating with some caution. (Thanks to Eurogamer reader Daan for the full translation.) 'It will require time, because we need to go to Europe with this. 'The mixing of money and addiction is gambling,' a spokesperson for the commision told Belgian news site VTM. Now, the Belgian commission has weighed in with its findings - and deemed loot boxes as 'gambling'.

Last week, the Belgium Gaming Commision began an investigation into the practice of selling lumps of random in-game loot, sparked by the furore kicked up by Battlefront 2 prior to its launch.

There's no end in sight to the controversy surrounding loot boxes in gaming, which has crystallised around the launch of Star Wars Battlefront 2.

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