Laws surrounding loot boxes will stay as is in Australia for the time being.<\/p>\n
The Australian Environment and Communications Committee’s report into video game loot boxes was delivered to the Australian senate last week, noting that a consensus around the world had not been reached on whether the practice should be considered gambling.<\/p>\n
The Committee essentially recommended that no action be taken and that loot boxes not come under harsher regulatory framework moving forward.<\/p>\n
The senator who chaired the inquiry, Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John, said he disagrees with the committee\u2019s finding.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany loot boxes utilise a number of psychological mechanisms commonly seen in other forms of gambling, including variable ratio reinforcement schedules, entrapment and ready and constant availability,\u201d Senator Steele-John said. <\/p>\n
What exactly are loot boxes?<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFurthermore, it was argued that the risk to children, young people and even vulnerable adults from developing gambling-related harms through interaction with loot boxes was of such significance that regulators should seek to either prohibit, or restrict access to games containing loot boxes.<\/p>\n \u201cAs chair, I sought to follow this evidence and recommended the Parliament take action to ensure that no young person who plays video games is exploited by gambling-like mechanisms. Labor and the Coalition combined to outvote me in this effort and replace the committee\u2019s considered and appropriate recommendations with a single watered-down recommendation for a government review.\u201d<\/p>\n The news comes as the USA begins to investigate the practice<\/a>, that has already gone through significant debate in Belgium, UK, Ireland and most of Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n We will continue to bring you news as it comes to hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Environment and Communications Committee’s report into video game loot boxes was delivered to the Australian senate last week, noting that a consensus around the world had not been reached on whether the practice should be considered gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,392,68],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-loot-boxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}