Why are consumers defending anti-consumer practices? How much of the cool-aid are you guys drinking? Someone from EA should get you guys on the payroll. Valve too, I guess. They could pay you a monthly salary and you could comment from here to eternity about how everything that's regulated, regardless of the reasons, is bad because democratically elected governments that are entrusted by the public to serve the public should never act on behalf of the public good. Then you can wrap all that up into a nice package of no one being allowed to tell you how to have fun because you, the outlier, actually like playing a one-sided business model that is utilized only as a way to raise revenue by preying on whales with gambling addiction.
Y'all are essentially defending a guy running a 3-card monte table because some people like to play 3-card monte and no one should take away that experience from them.
Honestly, guys, the line has to exist somewhere. I said it earlier. Some practices don't deserve to be defended. Lootbox saturation has ruined many games. Regardless of the gambling aspects, as fans of gaming, you should be against it from a game design perspective alone. It's a predatory practice that ruins game design.