赃物箱基本上是免费玩游戏赚钱的方式，但世界各地的立法机构都在考虑将其监管为赌博。

战利品盒，如果你不知道的话，是在游戏中用真金白银购买的，并随机给玩家一件游戏中的装备。其中一些设备是罕见的，功能强大，但大多数不是，这意味着如果你想要一些好的东西，你可能要买一堆箱子。

关联：AAA游戏中的微交易将继续存在（但它们仍然很糟糕）

游戏行业代表声称这不是赌博。Peter Bright为Ars Technica撰稿，他不同意：

Here’s the thing: loot boxes are gambling. The essential features of the transaction match those of gambling, the reward pathways and addiction mechani**s are those of gambling, and playing dumb about it, as the industry is currently doing, is a bad look.

布莱特还提出了一个论点，即掠夺不是赌博，因为玩家总是得到一些东西：

More fundamentally, this is a red herring anyway. I couldn’t claim that my roulette table, with a minimum bet of $5, somehow became “not gambling” because I promised you’d always get at least five cents back. Such a roulette table would ever-so-slightly change the economics—I wouldn’t make quite as much money—but the fundamental features of the transaction are not meaningfully altered. You pay your stake, and you get a low chance of a big payout and a big chance of a negligible one. Such a scheme would, rightly, be recognized as the gambling it is.

我建议把整篇文章读一读，因为他提出了更多的观点。