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>In a response to NBC News' inquiries, the company issued a statement saying its games are not gambling and should not be regulated as such. >"These games are
by nend 6y ago
>In a response to NBC News' inquiries, the company issued a statement saying its games are not gambling and should not be regulated as such.
>"These games are not gambling because, among other reasons, they offer no opportunity for players to win money or anything of value," the statement said in part.
The monetary reward is 0, but you're still playing a game of chance in order to win a prize, and you still need to put down money to play (presumably after losing all your initial free coins).
I don't know what the legal definition of gambling is, but that still seems like gambling to me. Maybe that's too wide of a definition, but regardless it appears to be tapping in to the same addiction hooks as gambling.
- wutbrodo 6y agoIt is indeed a very wide definition. Is going to an arcade now gambling? Perhaps this hinges on how much chance vs skill is involved in the game, but it's difficult for me to see a principled difference between these apps and any situation in which you pay money to play a game.
- nend 6y ago>Perhaps this hinges on how much chance vs skill is involved in the game It does. Arcade games are typically games of skill rather than games of chance (although that obviously varies). Additionally, in the end what it probably comes down to is how much attention the purveyor draws to themselves. If arcades started becoming so successful that they create addicted children to lose thousands of dollars of their parents money, I'm sure you'd start seeing arcade regulations. And in fact when pinball games first came out, you did see lots of governments get involved as it was viewed as corrupting children.