The surprise boxes will account for 50 billion businesses by 2020. The FTC will review it

Risks are mainly associated with children.

During his speech at the congress, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that the agency planned to analyze the situation around the boxes of surprises shortly. According to the senator Maggie Hassan estimates that in 2020, this company will achieve a turnover of $ 50 billion a year.

She also said that surprise boxes are currently related to smartphone games, even in the big AAA games, and that children are the most threatened group in mailboxes. She also added that a recent British study confirmed, that 30% of children who have been in contact with surprise boxes have gambling problems.

Hassan also said that it was necessary to protect children from object boxes and to educate their parents about their influence. FTC chief Joseph Simons later confirmed that the entire case would be investigated and that legislative changes would likely be made to the lockers.

It is clear that sooner or later, these toy boxes will disappear. But they are already slowly disappearing from the Battlefront 2 fiasco last year and are replaced in most cases by the direct purchase of items in the game such as Fortnite or the new Battlefield V. In some countries, there is already legislation that lootbox in the games, for example in Belgium and the Netherlands. The European Union also plans to tackle this problem.

Source: broadcastcable.com

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