Links between problem gambling and spending on booster packs in collectible card games: A conceptual replication of research on loot boxes.

Loot boxes are digital containers of randomised rewards present in some video games which are often purchasable for real world money. Recently, concerns have been raised that loot boxes might approximate traditional gambling activities, and that people with gambling problems have been shown to spend...

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Main Authors: David Zendle, Lukasz Walasek, Paul Cairns, Rachel Meyer, Aaron Drummond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247855&type=printable
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