Guild Wars: Lottery

There would be a "Lotto Merchant" in almost every city/outpost. Personally I'd rather see one in Marketplace (To actually make it feel like a market.. Along with the auctioneer merchant but thats another thread) There would be three levels of competition.

Low lotto - Tickets cost 250 (Starting pot = 5 platinum)
Mid lotto - Tickets cost 500 (Starting pot = 10 platinum)
High lotto - Tickets cost 1,000 (Starting pot = 15 platinum)

I'm sure there are better names... But the idea is it works just like real life. The more people who buy Low/Mid/High tickets, the winning pot for those will get higher and higher. The Emperor would come down once a week on say a Saturday at 12:00 PM GMT. He will announce the random winner, if that person does not go to Shing Jea monastery (Where he was for the tengu) within 30 minutes. He looses the pot and the Emperor chooses someone else.

I'm guessing a few hundred would put into high, so thats an expected 250,000-450,000 gold prize, nothing outrageous. You guys may think this will be abused. But for only 1 out of hundreds to be chosen, a lot of people will be disheartened for not winning. I also think the 1 week may be a short time.. So perhaps it should be upped more, maybe to 1 month. Making the pot, undoubtly 1 million gold. Although this could result in instant millionares, which could upset the economy. Thus I think 1 week with small winnings is the best option. A modest reward, that won't upset the economy.

A certain Allied Guildie got nailed with a warning from Anet and a 24hr ban for running one of these on a large scale... in any case its interesting. lol But I doubt they will considering the past warnings for these activities that went out.

think it's been said before but it sure as h*ll would be fun with one

/signed

imagine the winner running like crazy in towns saying he won the lottery..and scammers try to sell him junk items to get some of his gold..this will be hilarious

There is already a lottery in GW. It's called "Chests and Keys". Buy your keys and take a chance something good will come to you.

Good point Quickmonty but it would be cool to have a lotto ticket in your inventory and to maybe look on the GW site what number it was yeah it would be quite cool but prob something for waaaaaay into devlopment. But defintly on their 'to do' list

the same people that think this idea is great are the same people that buy lotto tickets in real life.

as it has been said by many people, lottery tickets are just a stupidity tax.

/not signed

I never won with a lottery ticket IRL, and I'd probably never win in game!

Additionally, I like to adventure, explore and reap the rewards of playing the game.

Agreed.

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and lets promote scammers full scale

I'd rather have dispensers, just click on whatever you need/want and get as much as you want/need.

Can you just give me the gold, and have me tell you if you won?

/signed
/not-signed

Not a stupidity tax, but a tax on people who are poor in math.

Well i'd buy one.

nah the things from chests isnt that good usually and u HAVE to try and sell them... which might take too long...

/SIGNED ... hopefully they will add this...

I cann't deny the added advantage that a game would get from adding Gambling. But is it one of the sins?

/signed

it would be interesting. Over all pretty fair. Odds of winning would be big. But.. how often would a lottery end and begin again?

Brother Gilburt

This would be insane. Id be buying atleast 100 tickets lol. But in a way Gw could maybe take money out for themselves to help the merchants prices not go wild

its a bit limiting isnt it, so say that specific time, 12pm GMT is heeluva awkwardness for people +GMT, or even on GMT

/signed

now i had something to spend my 50k on^^
a title would be nice too: lottery-winner or sth like that(for a 100k+ win or so)