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By now, you know all about the drama of EA’s Battlfront II after they announced the This means the temptation to continue buying boxes until you get the goodies you want is very high. 3z3n6z

Even if you don’t get a dud, you may still be tempted to continue buying more boxes and continue getting more goodies to help you level up. You can get abilities to make you stronger, such as 100 percent invisibility flight on gambling”“.

In a sense, it is. And Since these boxes contain items that improve how you play the game, there is very much a pay-to-win factor to it.

What makes it like gambling?

As the website Rock Paper Shotgun explained, you could get those same benefits without spending real-life money, but you’d have to do it by playing matches against other players to earn fake pay to win benefits in a competitive game and you can see why there was an uproar.

Belgium’s gaming commission is investigating whether the game constitutes gambling, although EA still sticks to the story that the crates are not gambling.

“A player’s ability to succeed in the game is not dependent on purchasing crates. Players can also earn crates through playing the game and not spending any money at all,” said the EA spokeswoman. “Once obtained, players are always guaranteed to receive content that can be used in game.”

What do you think? Is it gambling? Are we arguing semantics here? Is it right to allow gaming, or do you see it as taking advantage of the players?

Lisa Clark 34y1q

Lisa has been an avid gamer since she was old enough to hold her first controller and a game writer for more than a decade. A child of the Nintendo generation, she believes they just don’t make games like they used to but sometimes, they make them even better! While consoles will always be her first love, Lisa spends most of her gaming time on the PC these days- on MMOs and first-person shooters in particular.