{"id":1908,"date":"2018-09-11T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:20:06","slug":"fifa-18-ea-under-investigation-in-belgium-due-to-loot-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-18-ea-under-investigation-in-belgium-due-to-loot-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 18: EA under investigation in Belgium due to loot boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"Electronic Arts \u00e8 finita sotto indagine in Belgio per non aver rimosso le casse premio da FIFA Ultimate Team, la modalit\u00e0 online di FIFA 18.\n\">Electronic Arts ended up under investigation in Belgium for not having removed the prize funds from FIFA Ultimate Team, the online mode of FIFA 18.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"Come saprete il Belgio \u00e8 uno dei primi paesi europei, insieme all'Olanda, ad aver dichiarato che le casse premio sono una forma di gioco d'azzardo e che come tale vanno regolamentate.\">As you know, Belgium is one of the first European countries, together with the Netherlands, to have declared that premium funds are a form of gambling and should be regulated as such. <\/span><span title=\"Societ\u00e0 come Valve, Blizzard e 2K Games si sono dovute adeguare rimuovendole dai loro titoli.\n\">Companies such as Valve, Blizzard and 2K Games have had to adapt by removing them from their titles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"Electronic Arts non lo ha fatto e ha continuato a offrire casse premio nella serie FIFA, portando un pubblico ministero di Bruxelles ad aprire un'indagine per violazione della legge contro il gioco d'azzardo.\n\">Electronic Arts did not and continued to offer prize funds in the FIFA series, leading a prosecutor in Brussels to open an investigation for violating the law against gambling.<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"EA si \u00e8 difesa, per voce del CEO Andrew Wilson, affermando che le casse premio non sono gioco d'azzardo perch\u00e9 i giocatori conoscono la quantit\u00e0 di oggetti che otterranno aprendole.\">EA defended itself by the voice of CEO Andrew Wilson, stating that prize funds are not gambling because players know the amount of items they will get by opening them. <\/span><span title=\"La commissione per il gioco d'azzardo belga non si \u00e8 per\u00f2 lasciata convincere e ha deciso di sporgere denuncia contro il publisher.\">The Belgian gambling commission did not allow itself to be convinced and decided to lodge a complaint against the publisher. <\/span><span title=\"Vedremo come si evolver\u00e0 l'intera faccenda, che sta assumendo sempre pi\u00f9 caratteri grotteschi, anche perch\u00e9 se le casse premio sono una forma di gioco d'azzardo qualcuno negli ultimi anni ci ha venduto praticamente delle slot machine mascherate.\">We will see how the whole thing will evolve, which is assuming more and more grotesque characters, also because if the prize funds are a form of gambling, in the last few years someone has sold us some masked slot machines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts ended up under investigation in Belgium for not having removed the prize funds from FIFA Ultimate Team, the online mode of FIFA 18. As you know, Belgium is one of the first European countries, together with the Netherlands, to have declared that premium funds are a form of gambling and should be regulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[29,26,30],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-18","tag-fifa-18","tag-fut","tag-fut-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}