Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I want to start doing a weekly lottery available to all GW2 players. It will be good for the community and the winner because it will help the winners gain money and be that 1 step further to getting their legendary. It will work like this: 1 ticket will cost 20s and you can buy as many tickets as you want. You will have to choose a number between 1 and 2000, the winner will be picked every week and you will have to enter every week to be able to win that week. Send me a mail in-game with your money and you will be eligible to win the pot!

Not sure if I should report you for scamming or let the forums tear you up.

Yeah right…………..

There’s never a mod when you really want one.

How is this scamming? I’m not even kidding. This is legit.

Asterix.6182:

How is this scamming? I’m not even kidding. This is legit.

No one knows that this is legit. All we have to go off of is your word and with anonymity of the internet that falls to nothing. I think that doing this would be a fantastic idea but asking for the money upfront means that people have to trust you to keep your word. If say 100 people signed up for this, and you backed out on us you would be 20 gold richer. If there was a way to sign up that would not take money upfront and would only take money when the winner had been decided and no player was in charge of doing this it would be great.

Currently there is no way to do this that is scam proof. People could send you their money and possibly get scammed or you could wait until a winner was chosen and hope that everyone that signed up would pay you their money. Either way it requires a level of trust that is not there for an anonymous person I have never met

I want people to send me money too, look at that, I put in a ticket myself and I pulled the magic winning number! I guess all your money is mine now =D

Asterix, have you ever played EVE?

I’ve seen guilds do this in both GW1 and 2 and it’s worked well. But there it was always the leader or an officer running it and it was only within the guild. Which obviously has the advantage that hopefully everyone trusts the guild leadership not to scam them with fake events, and if they did it would rapidly lead to everyone leaving the guild and reporting them.

It’s entirely possible Asterix is being completely honest here, but I know I wouldn’t want to take the risk and I doubt anyone else would either.

Also what happens to the money if no one wins?

If you’re really serious, I’d say first get backing from a large and known guild or website (dulfy’s, guildwarstemple, things like that) first. As everyone said, we don’t really know know you, for all we know you might just dissapear after receiving the money or just have a friend to claim that he was the one that won in the first place.

It has been done before (actually, the guild I’m on just had one recently as a gold raising activity, people got a chance to win for every 50s they sent, few hundrers of gold were raised, half went to the randomly selected winners, other half to the guild bank), but you first need people to trust you with their money and that is not a scam, and the one way I can see it happening at least for the time being is with some official backing, either by anet themselves, or a respected and more important, very well known part of the community (which is why I sugested a large known guild or website).

Yeah we’ve done it in my Guild before, but I guess alot of people have trust issues

Asterix.6182:

Yeah we’ve done it in my Guild before, but I guess alot of people have trust issues

So did I, but in my guild I made a name. I was an officer, I had a greenlight from my guildleader and it was ok.

A guild is a confined area. people can choose to trust you and if you cheat them give you the penalty of leaving them. If you trick guildmembers in false lotery’s you’ll get a lot of leavers so there is a reason to trust you.

This action means eaither:
a: you are trying to get people to sent you free money
b: people trying to scam you and reporting you cause they so called had the winning number.

You prolly want to advertise your guild to get more members by making your lottery open for everyone but dont do and dont try.

It’s not just that we have trust issues – although this is gaming on the internet, a certain amount of paranoia and pessimism about people is only reasonable. It’s also that because this can’t be verified, people shouldn’t enter it (good practise in general to not give money to strangers who promise you things) and it could be construed as a breach of terms even if you are legit.

Doing it within a guild is a bit different, because there’s a relationship there. People trust each other with guild business already, and if there are betrayals, it’s unfortunately accepted as a risk of the sharing that a guild entails. To the game at large… it’s just too iffy without any system in place to verify it.