Game loot boxes, i.e. packages of game items with random content, have been stirring emotions for a long time, and not only in strictly gaming circles. The fact that the opening of such items borders on gambling has been successfully enforced, for example, by legislators in Belgium and the Netherlands. The country's anti-gambling laws are now back in the spotlight due to the controversial Diablo Immortal.
The first mobile entry in the cult action RPG series is by all accounts an excellent game and a great porting of Diablo. At the same time, the great gameplay is spoiled by predatory monetization, which hides the most powerful items in the game behind payment gateways. To give you an idea of how bad the situation is, a youtube channel Bellular News he calculated that in order to improve your character to the maximum, you would have to pay over a hundred thousand US dollars (at the time of writing the article, over 2,3 million crowns) in the system set up at the same time. This should make sure you seriously drop legendary items from random loot boxes.
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Diablo Immortal thus avoided the mentioned Benelux countries. Thus, Dutch and Belgian players cannot officially download the game in their countries. However, how long the ban will last is uncertain. Although laws exist in both countries, their interpretation in the courts is not entirely clear. Just look at the controversy surrounding the soccer game FIFA 18, when the Dutch court decided to finally give the green light to loot boxes in the game after the publishers appealed from EA.
