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Star Wars Battlefront II recently generated a lot of controversy for its loot crates and microtransactions.
The outcry among gamers caused the publisher to pull the micropayments but the issue has since been taken by up by various governments. Today, Belgium announced that it considered loot crates with unknown items as gambling and wants them banned in Europe.

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