They could sell the items straight, Legendary and Epic, and maybe Mythic (if not leaving Mythics to being Transform-only), but leave the perks that come with them under RNG control. Once they did, it was clear it wasn't going to take long before they were going to design laws that technically still make it possible but practically will kill the practice. The only reason it took so long before gambling in games was looked at, is because they are old farts that don't realise how much money goes around because of all these rng lootboxes in games. There also came the gambling games at night on the television and it didn't take long to be banned. For a long time it was very hard to enter international prize contests because even free raffles require a Belgian judicial officer to oversee the raffle.Īt the start of online gambling there was Unibet and others, but very quickly they got restricted by new laws and a bit later almost impossible to keep operating. All lotteries or scratching tickets are their product.
Gambling is a monopoly by the state and the commission has the political power to keep it this way. The Belgian Gaming/Gambling commission is very protective of the market. It's not the protect the children or anything, that's just a byproduct. As a Belgian let me explain how this came to be.
