Petition · past parliament

To change the Gambling Act to protect minors from loot boxes in computer games.

Closed 29 signatures

What the petition asks

Games companies are making poor quality games to maximize player spending. Players are gambling real world currency, by exchanging it for virtual currency to play built in slot machines. There are match making algorithms to match weaker players with better ones.
This will make the weaker player jealous, tempting them to gambling money on the loot boxes on the pay-to-win game. Gambling can be addictive, and children are more susceptible to being addicted. All the transactions and electronically automated, so children with no concept of money will keep opening loot boxes. It's a very scummy, shady tactic used by some games companies. And it's typically the case that the only thing you can buy in the game is solely the virtual currency for opening loot boxes in one game mode

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Timeline

31 Oct 2018 Petition opened for signatures
30 Apr 2019 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 29
Status Closed
Opened 31 Oct 2018
Closed 30 Apr 2019

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.