A widely-publicized new report by the UK Gambling Commission does not purport to link youth gambling to videogame loot boxes, the commission said. Earlier this week, the Commission published a report titled Young People and Gambling, which examines trends in youth gambling. It includes some sobering figures: 14% of 11-16 year old youth in the UK said they had spent their own money on gambling in the week prior to the survey, and over the past year, 39% said they had gambled with money. Among the statistics listed in the report’s top-level summary is a bullet about videogame loot boxes: 31% of teenagers surveyed said they had opened loot boxes in either a game or mobile app. But contrary to a number of media accounts that suggested the commission had found that loot boxes were a “gateway drug” to gambling, the report did not find a link between youth gambling and loot boxes - in fact, it wasn’t even looking for one. “We’ve not in any way, in the survey, referred to [loot boxes] as exposure to gambling,” a commission spokeswoman told GamesIndustry.biz.
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