UK Children's commissioner ready for loot box clam down

Are video game loot boxes actually a form of gambling? More and more regulatory authorities and government agencies across the world are taking a hard look at this incredibly popular element of contemporary gaming and coming to the same conclusion.
The most recent example of this phenomenon came this week when the children’s commissioner for England released a damming report on the link between video games and gambling addiction and came to the conclusion that loot boxes are, in fact, a form of gambling and should be regulated as such. According to a recent report in the Guardian, commissioner Anne Longfield is ready to make sure that lawmakers begin regulating loot boxes like gambling and keep children far away from them.
In her recently published report titled, Gaming the System, Longfield quotes children who sound like hardened gamblers when referring to loot boxes. One 14-year-old described the void of searching for a winning loot box as follows, “I never get anything out of it (buying loot boxes) but I still do it.”
Longfield furthered her case saying, “Children have told us they worry they are gambling when they buy loot boxes, and it’s clear some children are spending hundreds of pounds chasing their losses. I want the government to classify loot boxes in games like Fifa as a form of gambling. A maximum daily spend limit for children would also be reassuring for parents and children themselves.”
The commissioner is likely to find a receptive audience among UK lawmakers, who have been quite eager to clamp down on anything that even remotely promotes compulsive gambling.