RpNation

It is if you think about it, your paying money for an unknown quantity of items, as well as the items being an unknown as well.
In gambling you dish out money with out having any idea what cards you're gonna get, or if your playing roulette or craps, what numbers you'll get. It's gambling because the variables are unknown

Exactly, however it seems to mainly be in the U.K. but the U.S. is looking at it too.

I'm fine with useing ingame currency to get lootboxes, but don't punish me for being poor and not shelling out real money to buy in game items.

However I'm fine with buying cosmetic stuff.