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Loot box spending is associated with problem gambling but not mental wellbeing
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 There are emerging concerns that loot boxes—digital video game items that can be purchased for a chance at randomized rewards—are associated with problematic gambling behaviours and, in turn, are potentially harmful.
Peter J. Etchells +2 more
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Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2022 Recently there has been increased interest in understanding the relationship between microtransactions, gaming, and gambling. This review aimed to synthesise the evidence on the relationship between microtransactions, ‘Internet Gaming Disorder’ (IGD ...
Phillip C. Raneri +4 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2023 In March 2022, the highest administrative court in the Netherlands, the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State, found that loot boxes in the Ultimate Team Mode of the FIFA video games (FUT) published by Electronic Arts (EA) did not ...
Leon Y. Xiao, Pieterjan Declerck
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Opening the compliance and enforcement loot box: A retrospective on some practice and policy impacts achieved through academic research [PDF]
, 2023 Loot boxes are gambling-like products in video games that can be purchased with real-world money to obtain random rewards. Regulations have been imposed in some jurisdictions to attempt to address potential harms.
Xiao, Leon Y.
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Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes [PDF]
, 2023 No abstract available.
Jayemanne, Darshana +2 more
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Tecnología, Ciencia y Educación, 2021 Las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) se han instaurado como un elemento fundamental en nuestro día a día. Sin embargo, sus beneficios se han visto empañados, con frecuencia, por los riesgos inherentes al espacio virtual.
Francisco Javier Sanmartín +2 more
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Legal aspects of ways to monetize rights in the computer games industry
Правоприменение, 2023 The subject. The authors attempt a legal analysis of several forms of monetization of rights to computer games.The purpose of the article is the legal qualification of donations, crowdfunding, loot boxes as means of monetization.The research methodology ...
N. Yu. Andreev +3 more
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels +3 more
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Counterplay: Circumventing the Belgian Ban on Loot Boxes by Adolescents
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2023 In 2018, Belgium made the world news for being the first country to ban loot boxes in games for all its inhabitants. As players’ freedom to purchase loot boxes was restricted, however, methods of circumventing the ban came into practice.
Maarten Denoo +4 more
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Random Numbers and Gaming [PDF]
, 2017 In Counter Strike: Global Offensive spray pattern control becomes a muscle memory to a player after long periods of playing. It’s a design choice that makes the gunplay between players more about instant crosshair placement with the faster player usually
Baglin, Sinjin
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