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> It's exploitative in the same way that gambling in general is exploitative, but isn't bound by the tight legal restrictions that prevent gambling companies from targeting children who might be most vulnerable to these exploitative tactics and more likely to fall into a vicious cycle of addiction early in life, which can have dramatic, literally life-changing consequences.

Yet. There has already been a lot of controversy over lootboxes and how they're basically promoting gambling to kids, and they've already been banned in certain countries (like Belgium) and drawn fire from governments and gambling comission officials in others.

There's a pretty good chance that at some point, these types of practices will get cracked down on hard, that'll they'll likely affect age ratings more in future and (like with GDPR and privacy or accessibility and the internet), they'll lead to lawsuits.