Ban Loot Boxes and predatory gambling mechanics from video games

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Ban in game purchases on computer games

Timeline

11 Jul 2019	Petition opened for signatures
29 Jul 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 29 Jul 2019

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