Loot boxes now illegal in Belgium

[xPx]

Ill try to clarify all the facts mentioned previously:

1/ the actual skill games arent skill games and are directly in conflict with LL own's policy: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Policy_Regarding_Wagering_in_Second_Life

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It is a violation of this policy to wager in games in the Second Life® environment operated on Linden Lab servers if such games:

1. Rely on chance or random number generation to determine a winner,

 

fact: actually every game of skill rely on random number generation to provide final score, moreover, the amount of JOKERs during the game is itself random. Notice that the amount of joker is very linked to the final outcome of the game...

 

2/The actual skill games system is weak and can be bypassed EASILY by gready owners/creators to cheat people more than ever:

- Use of bots to get the random winner pots

- Use of alts to win the big pots/contests instead of players

- Use of alts to be first in replay and win the biggest replay stack.

2 Bis/ notice than from 2009 to 2011 (approx) most of the gaming devices had deep options permitting owners to adjust number of jokers, etc.. everything was possible to bait people with "good ratios" then change machines joker amounts/devil amounts and this way steal the victims that became regulars

2 bis bis/ in 2011 LL forbidden the auto on option on gaming devices which was against their own definition of skill games (the auto on pemitted to play money games in automatic mode): as you can see, this auto on mode cheated people during 1-2 years. (add to this tons of reports from players stating that this auto on mode was broken and sometimes it was skipping scores, making lose the player instead of winning.

3/ The actual skill games which migh get part of their scores "server based" (means the inworld LSL scripts sends a request to the creator server to receive a score result (numbers or jokers) and cant be verified since everything happening on the creator's server and not inworld..

4/ the big WHEELs are back in SL: did you read their description? it is totally foggy as hell and are clearly NOT skill games but rather described to "look like" a skill game (which anyway cant be possible, since you read the 1/ basic of this topic)

5/ new players are winning, regulars are losing more and more. little bets get good ratios (10l$ bets), big bets get awfull ratios. there is clearly a system to make people addicts. every SL money player will state this. true or false LL needs to investigate this before someone else does.

 

 

About gatchas now:

1/ nothing is verified everyone can script their own script and put ANY ratio for rares and so on, even modifiing it daily to cheat people.

 

 

conclusion: you can see that, as usual LL not following their own TOS (1/). a lot of Sl big gaming sim owners are cheating people for ages and have been unpunished totally.

Edited May 29, 2018 by xPx

[AlexandriaBrangwin]

The fact that we're having the discussion means not all is well in the realm of gatchas.

I know there was often an item I wanted badly but as soon as I saw it was gatcha only I went off it and the designer quite angrily.

"Yeah screw it I'm not playing their damned gambling nonsense".