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Green Gambit
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Posted - 2014.08.19 15:13:00 -
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Rain6637 wrote:Man, if only gambling was integrated with the game and players didn't need third party sites for it.
CCP won't do that, as there are specific laws/regulations/taxes/etc that cover gambling in most places in the world. As you can convert real money into credits to gamble, CCPs business is running a MMORPG - not an online casino.
Now third parties, like Somer Blink, who are encouraging people to buy credits to gamble, and actually running online casinos are responsible for making sure that they conform with laws/regulations/taxes/etc covering running an online casino.
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Green Gambit
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Posted - 2014.08.19 16:30:00 -
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Schmata Bastanold wrote:Except you cannot pay RL money to SOMER and get blinks to play with. You pay them space money for pixel credits you can gamble with - there's no law to prohibit or control this since whole casino/lottery works with imaginary currency. Only thing law applies to is SOMER's income from PLEX referral link but I'm sure he has it nicely sorted as any responsible adult would do.
That's interesting, because there's a document on the Somer Blink site here: https://cogdev.net/blink/affiliate.rtf that states:
Quote:A large proportion of people who play Blink buy ETC so they can use some of that ISK to gamble.
So yeah, people are turning real-life money into credits to gamble with - at least according to the people who run the site - and they're in the best position to know that. And it's pretty common for real life money to be turned into credits or ships or something else to actually gamble with.
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Green Gambit
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Posted - 2014.08.19 16:39:00 -
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Schmata Bastanold wrote: snipped
Anyway, my original point was simply that CCP doesn't want the overhead of running an online casino - which could be a complicated business to run for various reasons. But that doesn't stop a third party running an online casino, as long as they're happy to cover all the legalities required. |
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Posted - 2014.08.19 16:45:00 -
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Andski wrote:100k USD isn't going to buy you a datacenter bro
You don't need a datacentre, even if it needs 4 dedicated servers (and that would be pushing it in my opinion) 100k is enough to run the site for 20 years... |
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