China enacted a law in May which requires games selling loot boxes to reveal the odds.[1] This new Apple policy will help their compliance. I don’t recall a “do you have loot boxes with unpublished odds” check box anywhere in my iOS app information, so it seems that Apple needed to do something to filter offenders from appearing in the Chinese app store.

[1] https://zhugeex.com/2016/12/chinas-new-online-gaming-regulat...