Rejected petition Ban Loot Boxes and predatory gambling mechanics from video games

The video game industry is worth £3.86bn
Many of the biggest video game publishers (EA/Ubisoft/Tencent) exploits their players, who are often children, by using psychology techniques to addict their players to the games, they use the same mechanics as real slot machines, and uses real world money.

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Psychological Techniques: Skinner Boxes/Operant Conditioning. This is to help you understand operant conditioning and variable ratio reinforcement. It applies to Loot Boxes as they are a form of gambling as they can be bought with real world money and contain a variety of desirable to non-desirable items. The player has no control over which item they get.
http://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/psychology/chapter/operant-conditioning
Gaming addiction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42541404

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Date submitted 11 July 2019
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