Apparently EA might end up causing loot box systems to be banned in all of Europe instead of just Belgium and the Netherlands due to their refusal to follow Belgian laws against gambling.
Basis involves the Belgian (and Dutch) government recently declared loot boxes to be a form of gambling and are requiring gaming companies to follow those laws in order to keep their games legal for sale.
Activision and Blizzard removed loot boxes from their games in dispute, 2K Games pulled their loot boxes and asked fans to tell their government to change the decision, and others tweaked their loot box systems to be compliant. EA decided to give the equivalent of a middle finger and kept selling loot boxes after being warned to stop.
Now EA is currently facing a lawsuit over the issue and instead of settling, want to fight it in court thinking they can overturn it or pay off people to make the issue go away. Instead the current feeling is EA is going to lose big time and screw other publishers in the process.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...es-court-case/
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/2...tes-in-belgium