확률형 아이템의 사행성과 규제에 관한 고찰

Lootboxes, also called 'Gacha', are currently a popular payment model for mobile games. On the other side of profit maximization is excessive spending by users due to excessively low set probabilities. Criticisms have been raised that this is similar to gambling or speculative games in that it hinders healthy work consciousness and invests a huge amount of money in chance. In order for a loot box to be a gambling or speculative game product, it must meet the three speculative criteria: whether or not property value was invested, the contingency of the method, and whether or not the invested value generated profit or loss. Applying this criterion, the characteristics of loot boxes are summarized as follows. First, because it is acquired through game money, property value is invested. However, such an act of input is evaluated as similar to the act of purchasing a product. Second, it is difficult to measure the generation of profit or loss for the result. This is because it is difficult to exchange acquired game items into legal currency. As such, loot boxes have different characteristics from speculative game product. However, it is difficult to deny the contingency of the loot box and the speculative element of the psychology of a fluke, so it is necessary to properly control it. Rather than active regulation, it is preferable to prohibit deception of users and to ensure users' free choice by disclosing probability information. It should be required that the game industry's voluntary efforts to urge it. Not only should be strengthening the self-regulatory code to match the regulatory level of developed countries, but also gaining competitiveness in the high quality of game contents, not loot boxes.