With technology evolving so fast, gaming has changed a lot in the last two decades. We went from having a complete product delivered on a cartridge or a CD, where if the game was good, you were in for a ride, but if it turned out to be bad, you just ended up wasting your money. Now games can be released in an unoptimized state and be salvaged via updates months later.
However, unoptimized games are the least of the evils when you compare them to some other exploitative mechanics that several free-to-play games or even paid games have. One such mechanism is loot boxes, or as EA once called them, "surprise mechanics".
When it comes down to its bare bones, the loot box system is essentially just gambling. Now, whether it should be in gaming at all can be debated depending on the game, the target audience, and other factors. However, something that should be universally agreed upon is that children shouldn't be gambling, or in this case, opening loot boxes.
As gaming is only getting more popular by the day, many countries are taking this issue seriously. And now Brazil has also joined the fight after...
