Research Questions: How many games contain loot boxes? Do they disclose loot box probabilities using percentages? Do they warn players that loot boxes are chance-based events and that getting specific rewards is not guaranteed?

Preregistration: https://osf.io/hv2ry

Data: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GEY3X; https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YC8GD

Lead: Yuchen Huang

Research Questions: How many games contain loot boxes? Do they disclose loot box probabilities? Do any implement prohibited kompu gachas that only provide a unique reward upon collecting a full set of other loot box rewards?

Preregistration: https://osf.io/sq7xg

Data: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/58Y9D; https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/H2CTR

Lead: Xiaoyu Xiong

Research Questions: What are the product characteristics of card packs available in Hong Kong? Do they disclose probabilities of getting different rarities of cards?

Preregistration: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/97ZNM

Data: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZP7SX

Lead: Elvis Lo

Research Questions: Whether, and if so, how and what percentage of physical blind boxes sold in Mainland China comply with regulations as to the presence, completeness, accuracy, and visual prominence of probability and age-restriction disclosures on packaging?

How do packaging design features related to shakability and squeezability, structural uncertainty, anticipation, and excitement in pre-unboxing interactions contribute to the game-like nature of blind box consumption?  

Preregistration: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/CQ9BR

Data: https://osf.io/qexc7

Lead: Xiaoyao Ren

Research Questions: To what extent do Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) comply with Article 39 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) requiring the provision of advertising repositories?

Which specific aspects of advertising repositories (e.g., search functions, content disclosure, advertiser and payer identity, display period, target demographics, reach) are less likely to be compliant than others?

Preregistration: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/CN4G7

Data: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JWAUS

Lead: Xiaoyao Ren