The competent committee shows its concern to normalize access to the game.

The loot boxes are still a recurring topic of information and debate in the videogame industry. The latest news on this issue comes from neighboring France, where the agency responsible for regulating online games, ARJEL (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne), has chosen not to qualify the loot boxes as bets without having shown its concern on various points of the topic.

According to a Game Industry publication, if they were considered as such, these chests would have needed the approval of the competent bodies to operate in the French market, such as sports betting or poker. But why are they discarded as bets? For a product to be cataloged like that in France it is necessary that it be an activity offered to the public, with a financial sacrifice in anticipation of some benefit and with a risk of possibility.

The main point of discussion comes from not giving the English, loot box a concrete real value and, in case of having it, this is achieved through the use of a parallel market that does not participate in an official or explicit way the corresponding editor .

ARJEL, however, points out that loot chests must have special consideration when being close enough to normalize a gambling addiction prematurely in young people . The body is concerned about the lack of a barrier in the age of entry to these practices, as well as a lack of transparency around the actual percentages of obtaining one or other objects.

The news shows a difference of apparent criteria with respect to the Netherlands, where Valve had to withdraw from Steam Marketplace CS: GO and DOTA 2 .