I will forever maintain that loot boxes are inherently worse than casino gaming because they target people who haven't had the education to understand probabili

I will forever maintain that loot boxes are inherently worse than casino gaming because they target people who haven't had the education to understand probability, and laws should be altered to regulate them just as all casino games are regulated. What is a loot box but a way to groom children to gamble away their money? And even worse, there's no return on these boxes. Not only are they randomized, but in the event that you win a desirable prize (and these are few and far between... the game developers know this), you receive a digital asset that can't be traded. Some companies are going into NFTs in order to justify this behavior by allowing people to trade these assets, but that's essentially just gambling one step removed. EA made $1.6B last year from "Ultimate Game Mode" in their FIFA game, which essentially allows gamers to gamble away their money to access players from across FIFA leagues to build into a custom team. A reddit thread I found showed that many people were spending $1K+ annually just to have access to the same characters year after year in this gambling scheme because the characters are not transferable to next year's game.