Would this violate Terms of Service??

Casul · October 2017

Gambling for in game items, currency, or otherwise similar products. In game??

Like if I was to do a drawing between numbers 1 and 100. And I charged every person 1k gold to enter. But I was giving something of value in return (let's just say 10 tempering alloys for example) would this violate ToS?

Guilds do it all the time with raffles so I assume no, especially since everything is taking place within game but I was curious.

I would assume however that if I held such a gamble and didn't hold up to my end of bargain (took gold but didn't pay out goods) then I could possible be flagged??

Just curious if anyone knew about this.

EDIT: I should add I read through the ToS and didn't see anything against it, but was curious if I missed it or misinterpreted it.

SydneyGrey · October 2017

It sounds like no matter how honest your intentions are, someone who enters your lottery will end up feeling cheated because they didn't win, and they could cause trouble for you. They could start screaming that you're a scammer in the chat even though you had a valid winner, and delivered the items like promised. If they wanted to get really nasty, they could claim you "fixed" it so one of your friends would win. Doesn't matter that it wasn't true.

Yeah ... not worth the headache that could cause. You know there are people out there who are evil jerks.

ArchMikem · October 2017

If everything is in-game then im sure its not.

Cpt_Teemo · October 2017

You'll just get black listed, but you can always change your @Name cause it promotes cheating now

Casul · October 2017

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

You'll just get black listed, but you can always change your @Name cause it promotes cheating now

Excuse my ignorance but what is black listed? What does such title entail?

Casul · October 2017

SydneyGrey wrote: »

It sounds like no matter how honest your intentions are, someone who enters your lottery will end up feeling cheated because they didn't win, and they could cause trouble for you. They could start screaming that you're a scammer in the chat even though you had a valid winner, and delivered the items like promised. If they wanted to get really nasty, they could claim you "fixed" it so one of your friends would win. Doesn't matter that it wasn't true.

Yeah ... not worth the headache that could cause. You know there are people out there who are evil jerks.

Well originally I wanted to do gambling with gold and the engine guardian set. Basically 3 people enter. Each picks a color and the winner doubles their money.

So basically 3k in, 2k out. 1k profit. Simple but effective.

ArchMikem · October 2017

Guild Masters have been doing this for a long time now to entice members to donate. Its called Red, Blue, Green. GM wears this set that has a random chance to proc one of three resource buffs with an animation of orbs of the respective color. Players put down gold on a color, then the GM starts spamming skills until the orbs proc. Whoever chose the resulting colored orbs that proc, wins.

Casul · October 2017

Yeah that is what I read about. Seemed like a neat way to earn some gold. Something I could do while waiting for dungeon queues. But I wanted to make sure it wasn't violating ToS. So do people still do that? Cause I haven't seen anyone do that in my 2 years of playing. I've seen people bet gold on duels but never on RGB.

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