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Open World Regulation: The Urgent Need for Federal Legislation on Video Game Loot Boxes [PDF]
, 2021 Loot boxes are items in video games that contain randomized prizes that players can purchase with real-world money. In recent years, loot boxes have come under scrutiny because the relationship between behavior and the underlying mechanics of loot boxes ...
Reyes, Alex
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Loot boxes in video games are a form of in-game transactions with randomized elements. Concerns have been raised about loot boxes' similarities with gambling and their potential harms (e.g. overspending).
Leon Y. Xiao
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Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2023 Developing current geographical debates on children’s digital geographies and popular culture, this article examines children and young people’s experiences and understandings of gambling-style systems in digital games.
Sarah Mills, James Ash, Rachel Gordon
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Regulation of Loot Box Mechanics [PDF]
, 2021 There has been debate among legal scholars as to whether loot boxes can be considered a form of gambling and whether they should or how they should be regulated. Loot boxes are virtual items users can purchase within video games for real money.
Saleemi, Mamoon
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Loot Box Purchase Decisions in Digital Business Models: The Role of Certainty and Loss Experience [PDF]
, 2020 Game providers are increasingly employing and selling loot boxes, which can be considered virtual goods that consist of further virtual goods on a randomized basis.
Adam, Martin +2 more
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Loot boxes as a form of gambling, and their potential for contributing to gaming related harm
Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 A CGS blog entry titled "Loot boxes as a form of gambling, and their potential for contributing to gaming related harm".
Mike Dixon, Chanel Larche
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The discourse deictics ^ and <-- in a World of Warcraft community [PDF]
, 2012 In the written English variety used in a community of World of Warcraft players, two iconic lexical items created from symbols have undergone semantic change. The words analyzed are ^ and
Collister, LB
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Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis
New Media & Society, 2021 Loot boxes (LBs) are video game-related purchases with a chance-based outcome. Due to similarities with gambling, they have come under increasing scrutiny from media, academics and policymakers alike.
S. G. Spicer +5 more
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Loot box purchasing is linked to problem gambling in adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling participation [PDF]
, 2022 BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Purchasing loot boxes in digital games is akin to gambling as it involves risking money for a chance-based reward of uncertain value. Research has linked buying loot boxes to problem gambling amongst adolescents, but has not examined
Browne, Matthew +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundLoot boxes are an increasingly common type of random microtransaction in videogames. There is some concern about their expansion and entailed risks, especially among adolescents.
Irene Montiel +4 more
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