Casinos - dead and gone w/ new policy?

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You feel it is a big racket.
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you feel camping is illegitimate in every way, then there is no need to work with campers, they just need to be eliminated.
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I guess you feel we are freeloaders.
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I guess you feel L$ should only be for those that contribute. (either work or cash.)
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Some like you will be happy, too.
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It sounds like you will probably get your way and eventually there will be no camping in SL.
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I know, I know, "Cry me a river you waste of virtual space."

There is a simple solution. Abolish the L$ exchange rate. The $L will then have no real world value and the gambling issue is closed.

Yes they can. Blizzard do it with World of Warcraft, they hold competitions, if the local laws forbid the competion, then people in that country cannot enter, but they can still have a corporate presence in that country.

Well i think you never looked deep into the Blizzard thing..bad bad bad.

Vivendi International has buyed Blizzard, Vivendi was ever a International Concern.

Thats how Blizzard got an foot on US-Land...nothing else.

Just think that the SL economy will be hit hard, a bit too hard. Fair enough everyone doesnt gamble; and to be honest its what you see as gambleing.

The lottery is a form of gambleing, and they have that in US too, therefore lottery tickets in SL must still be ok?

Scratch cards are sold in US, therefore eligible in SL? There are still work arounds but its all long and proberbly not worth the time or day. I think it would be in the best interests of everyone if LL moved out of the US completely - but we all know they wont be doing that; but if "Brighton Rocks" so much; register that as your head office?? Gambleing here in UK is legal in every county.

Booooooooooo LL for giving up the fight and a big F*** You to the US government.

I think you'll find that Blizzard already existed and Vivendi incorporated them into their organisation

This is what SL gets for having their head so far up Payal's AZZ. I've seen this scenerio play out somewhere before....... This is 100% driven by Paypal, guaranteed!

Now Ebay can pick up this soon to be desolate ghost town for pennies on the dollar. Very smart. But then again, I really have to wonder who the hell would even want it if no one is here.

For all you naysayers and people that are happy with this decision, soon you'll be crying the blues when all the money in SL dries up and no one is buying your silly shoes and penises. Oh yeah, and your land value just dropped in half.

This is what SL gets for having their head so far up Payal's AZZ. I've seen this scenerio play out somewhere before....... This is 100% driven by Paypal, guaranteed!

Now Ebay can pick up this soon to be desolate ghost town for pennies on the dollar. Very smart. But then again, I really have to wonder who the hell would even want it if no one is here.

For all you naysayers and people that are happy with this decision, soon you'll be crying the blues when all the money in SL dries up and no one is buying your silly shoes and penises. Oh yeah, and your land value just dropped in half.

How in the world is killing the casinos going to cause this place to become desolate. I have gone to a few of them, usually empty except for a few camp zombies. And it is 100% driven by revisions to the Wire Act passed last November.

You attack the clothing and sex industries, but I see a hell of a lot more people using them then I ever did gambling.

How in the world is killing the casinos going to cause this place to become desolate. I have gone to a few of them, usually empty except for a few camp zombies. And it is 100% driven by revisions to the Wire Act passed last November.

The lottery is a form of gambleing, and they have that in US too, therefore lottery tickets in SL must still be ok?

Personaly I think that the people playing the gambling machines will do something else instead, but banning the games here a larger impact ............

Many clubs get their income from Sploder, which are also gambling machines. Or they have some Zyngo machines .........
If they are no longer able to get money from these, how can they keep their club running?
I see not much other ways for clubs to earn money.

And, a SL without clubs will be a dead SL..............

without the gambling stuff well still have too may clubs - well just have less of them.

I'm just in shock contemplating what it would be like to have a SL business that was worth maybe $50,000 yesterday, suddenly worth zippo today. On a poker table with a 600L big blind, turning an average 20000 pot every 2 mins. Even with only 6 hours of play per day, a 2% rake would take in about .02(20000L x 30 x 6) per day. 72000L x 30 days/270 comes out to 8000 a month. So $50000 for Myth Gaming is probably a low estimate for yesterday. And today it's worth what he can sell the sims for.

It's a tough lesson in the value of cyber-assets, and it must be giving pause to every investor in the game, not just the ones who got royally screwed this time.

Given that most of the clubs are crap laggy builds, and either full of zombies or totally deserted in the first place, is that necessarily a bad thing?

After all, if the Playboy Club can't attract people... what hope is there for anyone else?

Broccoli

Again - as soon as they banned the use of the word "Casino" in advertizing, these gambling owners should have seen that the writing was on the wall and moved to downsize/liquidate.

Everyone still sees owning a club as a way to become popular. Until you take that myth away, they wont be going anywhere.

They should still have been notified properly and given a month at least to sell up and tier down.

And so is SL in general.

Think about it for a second... really THINK about it.

There are, or were, two real industries here, sex and gambling.

Now that gambling is going away, more people will be into the other industry more often, and soon it will make its presence known to LL.

Logically, since LL doesn't want anything negative coming out about the seedier side of our Second Lives to the corporate bodies (for whose masculine reproductive organs LL seems to enjoy having their oral cavity around), they'll make sure they make policies regarding that.

With both real industries now gone, this will shine new light on the problems affecting the platform, and people will be making their runs on the bank. Those that don't run because of the lag, crashing and other glitchiness will soon get bored as the game becomes merely Life and a Half, where you do the same mind-numbing thing to get a bit of spending money, only to have, you guessed it, SL's innate instability to wipe their latest trinket out of their inventories.

For those that continue to stick around, seeing that they can impose their will simply by having a few residents here, more and more countries will be forcing LL to adapt to their laws, and shortly after that happens, your experience will be standing around in void sims called SIM_2547 as non-descript blobs, using heavily auto-censored chat.

Now, I'd presume that SOMETIME before it gets to that final point, the Lindens would have sense enough to just quit hemmoraghing (sp?) money and finally put this now gravely-injured dog to sleep, but considering their previous track record of stellar business decisions....