FORCED GAMBLING
Saturday is also a good farm day. And I knew some purist would come along and comment on exactly that :p If you need a specific day in the week to honour a specific person or being, you’re doing something wrong. I don’t need sabbath for god just like I don’t need valentine for my Girlfriends.
I wouldn’t say it’s any more wrong than designating Thursday as laundry day. It’s just a way to ensure that it happens consistently without “life” getting in the way.
It will be a cold day in hell when god consistently gets in the way of my life.
To each there own. Either way, it isn’t doing “wrong” by setting a schedule for anything.
Setting a schedule for certain imaginary things is wrong if done at the cost of very real and important things. Example: setting a schedule for a videogame at the cost of your kids is wrong.
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Setting a schedule for certain imaginary things is wrong if done at the cost of very real and important things. Example: setting a schedule for a videogame at the cost of your kids is wrong.
I get it. You don’t believe in God. Now that we’re past that let’s talk about something important. The schedule actually helps to ensure that the cost of something else isn’t being infringed on. So it isn’t inherently wrong as you’ve indicated.
Setting a schedule for certain imaginary things is wrong if done at the cost of very real and important things. Example: setting a schedule for a videogame at the cost of your kids is wrong.
I get it. You don’t believe in God. Now that we’re past that let’s talk about something important. The schedule actually helps to ensure that the cost of something else isn’t being infringed on. So it isn’t inherently wrong as you’ve indicated.
That’s not what I said. I don’t believe god has a higher place than actual humans in my life. Therefor I will not place him above important people. Giving god his proper place does not equate to not believing in him. But that’s indeed besides the point
On topic: Gambling isn’t a problem, as long as it’s done with resources that can be lost. I wouldn’t gamble away my kid’s college fund but I do buy a win for life once a year or so when I feel like it. See how it all comes full circle. People who gamble too much have a problem, it’s not the fruit machine who is to be blamed.
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
…… anyway, I agree the in-game gambling isn’t a problem since most aspects of life involve some type of gamble in some way shape or form. Only specific types of gambles are regulated by the government or discouraged by certain religious institutions. If the in-game gamble is such a problem for anybody, it isn’t required so should be an issue.
playing the moa races made me feel sick. I’m against gambling. I come from a family who has a problem with addiction and I’ve known people who had this problem. It was very uncomfortable for me to do, and I ended up just minimizing the screen so I didn’t have to look at what i was doing.
Then why did you participate in moa racing at all?
It’s just a game and there are multiple avenues to achieve the wing reward. There was absolutely no reason to do it — did you really need the 5 achievement points that bad?
No. It’s not money. It’s imaginary money. It’s the same as gambling about crossing the street and not getting hit by a car. Only it’s less of actual gambling because the “money” is only money if you decide it has real value. basically, if you decide that it does have value then you are creating the situation for yourself. A-net isn’t the one doing it for you.
Actually GW2 gold does have a direct real world value. There is a constant realtime indicator of the gold to gems value, and gems have a specific dollar value. On top of that, time equals money and there is typically a significant time expenditure per gold, presenting a value there as well.
So yes, it is gambling. It is also more gambling than crossing the street as street crossing is a game of skill while Moa Racing is 100% RNG.
It’s no more gambling than playing the game and getting coins for killing mobs. So if it is gambling then OP has been gambling the entire time.
Also untrue. You don’t spend coins for a % chance to gain coins when killing mobs. In Moa Racing you have to spend a significant amount of coins, in my opinion, for a low chance to receive a reward. That is the definition of gambling.
Not untrue at all. You equated time to money. So if time equals money as you’ve said then we spend our time (which is like spending money) to kill mobs and get an undetermined amount of money back. that amount may well not be worth what we value our time at so we can take a loss this way.
edit: and your definition of gambling falls short because I can spend real money to invest in a business that has a good chance at not succeeding in order to get a monetary reward. It is taking a “gamble” (in the sense that gamble and chance are used interchangeably) but it is not considerd gambling in the sense that the OP is describing.
Killing mobs isn’t a gamble because you’re not killing the mobs for the express purpose of acquiring a specific thing, you are killing them to get XP, or to complete an event, which is a consistent reward. The loot is an added bonus on top, but should not be the objective. With gambling the objective is the profit. I would actually be willing to accept this as the case in other MMOs where a mob had a % chance to drop a specific item that you might need for a quest or whatever, but that’s not how this game works.
Investment is 100% gambling.
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Killing mobs isn’t a gamble because you’re not killing to the mobs for the express purpose of acquiring a specific thing, you are killing them to get XP, or to complete an event, which is a consistent reward. The loot is an added bonus on top, but should not be the objective. With gambling the objective is the profit.
Not 100% true. I’m level 80 so I kill mobs for one reason and that’s the express purpose of acquiring specific materials. That is my total, unadulterated objective.
Don’t lose site of the forest through the trees. It doesn’t matter that moa racing is gambling — that’s exactly what it is, period. However it’s an MMO with lots of other deranged things that you are forced to do. If you object to something in the game, then DON"T DO IT. If you don’t have that option then DON’T PLAY THE GAME.
The power is completely in your hands — completely.
Not 100% true. I’m level 80 so I kill mobs for one reason and that’s the express purpose of acquiring specific materials. That is my total, unadulterated objective.
Don’t lose site of the forest through the trees. It doesn’t matter that moa racing is gambling — that’s exactly what it is, period. However it’s an MMO with lots of other deranged things that you are forced to do. If you object to something in the game, then DON"T DO IT. If you don’t have that option then DON’T PLAY THE GAME.
The power is completely in your hands — completely.
This. it’s as much gambling as killing mobs. And having been playing the game until moa racing came out there is no reason to single moa racing out.