Would a Claw Machine be legal if it is free? ( Question because of Gacha Ban)

[Kyroxa Demonpaws]

Hello! 

Some time ago I found a claw game on the marketplace where you set a price and put random transferable items in for people to play and get random items, which according the rules should be illegal as it is almost the same as gacha but with a little gameplay prior. ( I read an article that said someone was almost banned for having this claw game on their sim.)

Now my question is, would this claw machine type game be legal if you would set the price of one play to 0 Linden Dollar?

 

 

[Quistess Alpha]

"free play" games are permitted in the skill-game policy.

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Second_Life_Skill_Gaming_FAQ

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Freeplay games, in which the sole payment required or permitted is a nominal Linden Dollar payment for the sole purpose of triggering gameplay and is immediately and automatically refunded without conditions of any kind, are not within the scope of the Skill Gaming Policy.

I.E. if you don't pay lindens (to receive a random reward), it's not a skill-game or gacha.

[Wulfie Reanimator]

I think a claw machine would fall under the Skill Gaming Policy (which means the machine would have to be approved by Linden Lab and only exist in Skill Gaming regions).

However if there's no cost, I don't think there's any problem with any policies. There are a couple stores I know of which have had this exact thing in their stores for years.

[Kyroxa Demonpaws]

Okay thank you!

[animats]

Are there claw machines in SL with a real grabber and a pile of physical objects? That would be kind of neat.

 

[Kyroxa Demonpaws]

3 minutes ago, animats said:

Are there claw machines in SL with a real grabber and a pile of physical objects? That would be kind of neat.

 

I think the one I saw has those. Looked like fun

[animats]

30 minutes ago, Kyroxa Demonpaws said:

I think the one I saw has those. Looked like fun

Where is it? I want to play it.

[Katherine Heartsong]

On 11/25/2022 at 5:38 PM, animats said:

Where is it? I want to play it.

/me shoves @animats out of line, yelling dibs!