{"id":22409,"date":"2020-10-29T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=22409"},"modified":"2020-10-30T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:23:26","slug":"fifa-21-dutch-judge-orders-electronic-arts-to-remove-loot-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-21-dutch-judge-orders-electronic-arts-to-remove-loot-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 21: Dutch Judge orders Electronic Arts to remove Loot Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 15 October, the Judge of a <strong>Dutch <\/strong>court gave reason to the authority responsible for the control of video games marketed in <strong>netherlands<\/strong>, under penalty of a very high fine that could even reach a amount between <strong>500 thousand<\/strong> and <strong>10 million <\/strong>Euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the judge&#8217;s ruling, <strong>loot boxes <\/strong>must be considered real <strong>gambling <\/strong>and therefore must be regulated in this sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Electronic Arts<\/strong> already in <strong>2018 <\/strong>opposed this evaluation of the <strong>loot boxes<\/strong> claiming that the products contained in them allowed to obtain only <strong>in-game items <\/strong>but obviously it was not enough for the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this sentence it is obliged to remove the loot boxes from the <strong>FIFA product<\/strong> marketed in the <strong>Netherlands <\/strong>within the next <strong>three weeks<\/strong>, otherwise a fine of <strong>500,000<\/strong> will be imposed ( <strong>250 <\/strong>for EA and <strong>250 <\/strong>for the <strong>European division<\/strong> ) per week up to a maximum of <strong>10,000,000<\/strong> of <strong>Euro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment the software house has not released <strong>official press releases<\/strong> about it to communicate whether it will execute the order imposed by the judge or try to oppose this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned to our pages, we will continue to follow the story and update you on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA 21<\/strong> is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and in <strong>December 4th <\/strong>for the Next Gen <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong> and <strong>Xbox Series X<\/strong> platforms 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>On 15 October, the Judge of a Dutch court gave reason to the authority responsible for the control of video games marketed in netherlands, under penalty of a very high fine that could even reach a amount between 500 thousand and 10 million Euro. According to the judge&#8217;s ruling, loot boxes must be considered real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1233,2265],"tags":[2523,2524,2525,26,790,1316,2522,2521,2526,28],"class_list":["post-22409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-21","category-news","tag-box","tag-boxes","tag-dutch","tag-fut","tag-fut-21","tag-gambling","tag-loot","tag-loot-box","tag-netherlands","tag-ultimate-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22409","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=22409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}