Lizzie293 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The DJ at a club said that L$ Sploders were banned by LL's new rules. Does anyone know why???? I want them back, I loved those things.:matte-motes-impatient: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoebe Avro Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I think they were banned in late 2007 ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie293 Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Then a lot of clubs were breaking the rules for a lonnngggg time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monti Messmer Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Sploder you have to pay to get a chance to win are banned due to the gambling law. That´s nothing new but with the new gambling sims and ... it got more attention. If the "owner" put money or goods in and the players only can win - without pay - it´s legal. US gambling laws - that´s the why. Monti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Lizzie293 wrote: Then a lot of clubs were breaking the rules for a lonnngggg time. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie293 Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Thanks Monti :matte-motes-grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoshi Kenin Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 They should have been banned long ago. They weren't. The 'why' is a very, very good question. It was crystal clear they were 'chance' gaming machines, yet LL - and no one else - allowed them to flourish despite having had a strict rule against games of chance for years. Strange. Interestingly, some maintain that other games transparently geared to chance masquerading as skill games were also allowed by - guess who? - yup...LL. The fact sploders and zyngo-esque machines brought in plenty to the LL coffers had nothing, I am sure, to do with it. Nor the rumours of some creators being somewhat cozy with LL. However, much like the infamous Redzone fiasco, LL had to eventually act; hence the recent tightening up of skill games to mean - finally - exactly that. Whatever DID happen to Pixellen Mistral? Pity the Alphaville Herald faded away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aislin Ceawlin Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Conspiracy theories abound...please explain to me how sploders added to LL coffers, exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Well, that's not a special mystery: Anything that gives people stuff to do in-world, so they might someday buy land, or motivate somebody else to buy land, generates income for the Lab. So, for example, some club-owner with a sploder might just give up if attendance declined too much when the sploders went away. I doubt this particular thing ever happened even once, really, but there is a general problem of folks having difficulty staying interested in SL, so removing "stuff to do in-world" isn't something the Lab should want to do. Also, just in passing, sploders probably added slightly to the demand for L$s, and the larger the money supply grows to feed demand, the more the Lab earns from selling newly-minted L$s. They also make a small commission on sale of existing L$s, so the Lab benefits a bit from anything that encourages transfer and exchange of the game currency. So I do think the Lab held onto a lax interpretation of the online gaming laws (and not just sploders) for a long time after they closed the once ubiquitous casinos, years ago. They got away with it (as far as we know), so those tiny income sources for all those years may offset the second wave of raging (see OP) about the long overdue segregation of all gaming, finally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irihapeti Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Aislin Ceawlin wrote: Conspiracy theories abound...please explain to me how sploders added to LL coffers, exactly? !! i know !!! bc people pay $295US tiers each month bc they so wanted to have a sploder. Is obvious that SL would of had to close like years ago if LL never blind eye them (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theresa Tennyson Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Aislin Ceawlin wrote: Conspiracy theories abound...please explain to me how sploders added to LL coffers, exactly? Because: LINDEN LAB IS TEH DEBBIL!!!!!!! In Hoshi's mind, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenMichelle Lane Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Theresa Tennyson wrote: Aislin Ceawlin wrote: Conspiracy theories abound...please explain to me how sploders added to LL coffers, exactly? Because: LINDEN LAB IS TEH DEBBIL!!!!!!! In Hoshi's mind, at least. WHAT!!!!! - Did you yell at me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Most conspiracy theories are really spread by the illuminati trying to brainwash us into not knowing what is really going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aislin Ceawlin Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Qie, I totally get that. I interpreted his meaning differently..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aislin Ceawlin Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Theresa......TEH DEBBIL YOU SAY????:matte-motes-shocked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Careful, now. Tread lightly. There's LL, Hoshi, a small but no doubt incredibly brave group of Hoshi's adherents, and then alla us damn shills. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinda Fallen Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Sighs... I still miss TRINGO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlazarusLlong Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 kinda Fallen wrote: Sighs... I still miss TRINGO. I miss all of t'Beatles. (Except McCartney.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Llaz...shouldn't this thread be in "Gaming" forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlazarusLlong Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Sassy Romano wrote: Llaz...shouldn't this thread be in "Gaming" forum? I made a request to the moderators to move it some time ago. I also suggested that they might want to create a new forum for such enquiries, called "Boring Questions" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabyDoll Losangeles Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Well where i work a LL worker came in removed the sploder and the voodoo egg when they both paid out people. So im a bit confused here if they pay out, why were these things removed? they were legal according to what i just read!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 They'd be illegal (on non-gaming sims) if there's any way they could be configured to accept L$ from players. If there's simply no way for them to be set to accept payment, then it might have been an error, but it's not sufficient that they were merely configured not to accept payment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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