I understand that with loot boxes in some video games, these items like skins, weapons, tools, among others, can be traded for real money. However, there are others that are equally addictive without any monetary benefit. On the other hand, with casinos, in general, you can win money 100% of the time.
Of course the loss of money is a collateral damage because money is a distictinctive factor here that is required to aid the gambling process and mostly when gamblers gamble and generate losses they see it as failed entity for them and thus money have been the stimulating factor that fuels addictions and this is why people tend to gamble to earn money and if they get a loss it's sure a huge damage to them, so differentiating with loot boxes I think they are less addictive compared to being addicted to gambling.