{"id":14776,"date":"2020-02-02T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=14776"},"modified":"2020-02-02T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T17:04:09","slug":"fifa-20-legal-action-in-france-fut-should-be-classified-as-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-20-legal-action-in-france-fut-should-be-classified-as-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 20: Legal Action in France &#8211; &#8220;FUT should be classified as gambling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like every year, the quarrel returns if <strong>FUT <\/strong>is to be considered <strong>gambling <\/strong>or <strong>not<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the case of <strong>2 Parisian lawyers<\/strong> (  <strong>Karim Morand-Lahouazi<\/strong> and <strong>Victor Zagury<\/strong> ) who, as reported by <strong>L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/strong>, have filed a lawsuit against <strong>EA <\/strong>declaring that <strong>FUT <\/strong>can be considered in all respects gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zagury <\/strong>explains: <em>\u201cIn this game, everyone wants to have a  dream team to go as far as possible. My client spent \u20ac600 in five months without ever getting a big player. The developers of this game mode  have created an illusionary and particularly addictive system. The more  you pay, the more you have the possibility of getting big players. We believe that a gambling game has been integrated into this video game because buying packs is nothing more than a bet. It is the logic of a casino that has entered their homes.<\/em> <em>Today, an 11 or 12-year-old teenager can, without any restriction, play FUT and commit  money because there is no parental control system in this mode. Belgium  and the Netherlands have already taken up this issue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this action, the two lawyers hope to get at least information on how the card distribution <strong>algorithm<\/strong> works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the various testimonials there is that of <strong>Mamadou <\/strong>who talked to <strong>L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/strong> about his FUT addiction: <em>\u201cYou quickly become addicted to this game\u2026 whenever I buy a pack, I tell  myself that this is the last time, but I always do it again. You get so  frustrated when you don\u2019t get good enough players that you buy again and  again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mamadou also explains that he has spent around <strong>\u20ac 600<\/strong> since the release of the game and has not found anything good &#8230;..: <em>\u201cI didn\u2019t even know him! Put so  much money in just to get Manolas\u2026 People I know have put in \u20ac2,000 or  \u20ac3,000 it\u2019s crazy\u2026 The amount I have spent has made me fall behind on my  rent payments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA 20<\/strong> is available from September 27, 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC,  Nintendo Switch. Keep on following us also  through our social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futukofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultimateteam_uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> for other news and information.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like every year, the quarrel returns if FUT is to be considered gambling or not. This is the case of 2 Parisian lawyers ( Karim Morand-Lahouazi and Victor Zagury ) who, as reported by L\u2019\u00c9quipe, have filed a lawsuit against EA declaring that FUT can be considered in all respects gambling. Zagury explains: \u201cIn this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1318,90,26,154,1316,1317,28],"class_list":["post-14776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-20","tag-equipe","tag-fifa-20","tag-fut","tag-fut-20","tag-gambling","tag-lawyer","tag-ultimate-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}