FTC Announce Investigation Into Predatory Loot Boxes In Video Games
6 min readDec 5, 2018
Following years of grassroots consumer backlash to the predatory loot box system, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finally agreed to investigate the online racket allowing adults and children to illegally gamble.
During a Congressional hearing last week, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) requested FTC chairman Joseph Simons conduct a formal probe into…