Ah, well I seriously do not agree with this, and you have made it perfectly clear nothing will change your mind.
No point in arguing with a wall.
This is because nothing would satisfy you.
Nothing you have posted so far in thread was a joke, or even funny. Why should we believe for a second...
You keep using vague terms.
I don't believe you. If you don't even play (you not knowing), how can you call it popular?
Yes, yes it would legally speaking as long as you can cover your ass well enough. This is how a lot of economic sales work. You get promised one thing, and it turns out it's...
Trading cards are a gray area legally speaking because the intent of that is in the title. You are supposed to trade and collect(and if like yugioh, play with like a toy) it's a social thing.
But I would personally consider it a form of gambling, yes.
What are you even talking about? Fate has a bunch of games, anime, and even literature. Just because I know a but about fate doesn't mean I ever play the games.
I don't even know what you are talking about anymore, and the way you phrased it, it doesn't sound like you do either.
It would be gambling either way, but if it was essential to the game, no one would buy it.
They are selling a game first, which isn't gambling (much like a happymeal, product over prize), lootboxes second, which are a separate product.
...Dude. it's obvious that by game I meant video game.
There are no videogames centered around lootboxes and not gameplay, where dropping money (outside of purchasing the video game) is not essential. Where as all of those games you just named, it is essential*.
*unless you are doing a less...
Yes, because the act of using a lootbox is not essential to beat*/participate* in a game.
*Depending on if the game is a multiplayer game or not.
That was the gimmick, yeah. But the gimmick was so that people would buy the candy, otherwise they could have just sold the toys in little...
Nope.
Because you are buying food with a random incentive, you aren't supposed to buy the food just for the random incentive. That's not the point.
Loot boxes are an entirely optional part of any game, not a feature.