Let me explain how gambling associations view it because this logic is wrong. ( no disrespect )
Sorry boxes are 100% gambling and setting a TT value doesn't change that.
It's still buying a lottery ticket to win a big prize doesn't matter who sets the value it is still considered gambling. Which is why they are being removed from games and cracked down on because the
entire nature of boxes is a text book definition of gambling. Loot boxes will be removed from every game. Eventually they will be outlawed here because the dance around this gambling law is coming to an end.
Don't see it? Well let me paint the picture for you then in an example and why it is gambling!
Tom buys 50 keys to open his 50 boxes in hopes of getting a shiny Christmas Ring. To no avail he doesn't get one.
Now Tom knows
that is all the money he had to try and get his prize but it calls to him. The precious!!! The ring would totally change his hunting and complete his Avatar!!!!
Now Tom
buys another 50 over extending himself in an attempt to get the Ring. He knows it's coming it has too!! It's been awhile since one dropped!! Again to no avail Tom misses.
Now Tom is out of Boxes and Keys. So he goes to bed and he is laying there reading and trying to predict the loot waves for a ring and
thinking that he can just skip out on paying one bill this month because if he wins this Ring it will change EVERYTHING!!!! (this is what gambling associations look at and define gambling)
Tom thinks he cracked the code, and is doubling down! Now he buys 100 boxes from a trader and gets 100 keys from the website and starts opening when he thinks the time is right!
Again Tom misses and doesn't win because he is a gambling addict and the gambling of boxes has claimed another victim.
Tom now has a late payment on a card and is well on his way to losing the important things in his real life because he gambled. However Tom thought he was sure to win!!
If only there weren't boxes that preyed on Tom's gambling addiction with the prize looming over his head.
This ^^^^ This is why gambling laws are in place and why their associations are removing boxes from video games as they fit perfectly the definition of gambling. It still causes gambling addicts to lose everything. It is still preying on people and in some instances in some video games, children that don't know about gambling or the addiction of it yet. They are 100% gambling because they have a Prize so it preys on people like Tom. Laws are in place to protect gambling addicts like Tom in video games. Which is a good thing, don't you agree?
If you love boxes fine, if you love gambling fine,
just realize they are gambling because you are trying to win a prize and that is the gamble. That is people overspending and taking out mortgages on their house to gamble on boxes. You are buying a ticket for the lottery of winning the big Prize. In Entropia that is a Ring. ( This is why keys can't be bought in some places, eventually it will be no more boxes anywhere. )
Please understand this, there is no way around it. Loot boxes are gambling because the gamble is the prize. Hope that is clear now