A concern about guild invites and gambling

Wrane Latrobe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Wood

E/Me

The /roll command was removed from towns to prevent "casino's". With the guild invite's as a guest it is now possible to invite someone to your guild hall to gamble. The /roll command works in your guild hall.

So you can advertise about an off shore casino, pay 100 gold; have someone come visit your guild hall, gamble away, and leave. If they are dishonest you get kicked without payout. If they are honest they will set up a house advantage.

lishi

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005



lol

if you read the backgroud of saul d'alessio you will find there was a casino guild

lol

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Or my Idea; kick the scammers. but they moved my topic to Off-Topic and Absured; i think this was the right place for it.

Bingley Joe

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Philosophers of Denravi

Hey that's a pretty cool idea!

SOT - Anyone out there without a guild notice if the fee has done anything to cut down on all those annoying random invites?

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

I havnt been guildless seince the betas when my guild wasnt up yet(6-7 friends) 7th friend was only a beta invite and got kicked from the servers in recent update; darn no more Hasnt Been on In 5 Months

But i can tell you this; 9 guild invites and didnt ask for a singel one, before we got setup.

audioaxes

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Or how about they just make a real casino with card games and slot machines?

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

how about there are no indains in guild wars.

Does anyother country have casinos besides america?

Orbberius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E
Does anyother country have casinos besides america?
You've got to be kidding

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

well you dont see it on tourist atractions. Please tell me there are.


nvm iv googled it and there are some in europe; but I still havent seen ads if i travel outside the states.

nudave

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

West Henrietta, NY

W/Mo

*cough* Canada *cough*

Orbberius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E
well you dont see it on tourist atractions. Please tell me there are.


nvm iv googled it and there are some in europe; but I still havent seen ads if i travel outside the states.
Yeah, there are tons in Canada
And there are almost certainly casinos in every major country in the world

Audhumla

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Oregon

The Shattered Hand

N/R

Pachinko halls are EVERYWHERE in Japan, too.

Alcaza Bedabra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

Jaine's Outpost

Mo/E

Hahah, Pachinko rocks

Yah, there are casinos everywhere...

So why not Tyria?

My guild still does a lottery every week in Kal Online. We get something like 300 entries every time, and we don't keep anything, we pay out as much as we get...

Divinitys Creature

Divinitys Creature

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Somewhere between the Real World and Tyria ;P

The Gothic Embrace [Goth]

Quote:
Originally Posted by D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E
how about there are no indains in guild wars.

Does anyother country have casinos besides america?
Haven't you seen any James Bond movies? They were not all just exotic locations in the US and they were not fictional places either . There are plenty of casinos in Europe and all the continents.

Enigmatics

Enigmatics

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Tenafly, NJ

Defenders of Rillanon

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E
how about there are no indains in guild wars.

Does anyother country have casinos besides america?
-and how'bout YOURRACIST SHESRACIST I"MBRANDINGYOURACISTWITHAREDHOTPOKERTHESIZEOFMYPAL M politically correct-

And, no, the casino idea is completely irrelevant to an RPG like Guild Wars.

Oni No Arashi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Puget Sound area, WA State

KnightMare Brigade [KB]

E/R

I know while I was in the Navy, when on the Carribean Islands (Curacao, Barbados, etc)... most of them have casinos also.

That feeds along the lines of the Guild Hall Casino

Mumblyfish

Mumblyfish

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2005

Blighty

Kansas City Hotsteppers [KCHS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Enigmatics
And, no, the casino idea is completely irrelevant to an RPG like Guild Wars.
People have been gambling since time immemorial. Why is gambling irrelevant to the world of Tyria? If people want to put some gold on the line to have a little fun, let them.

emil knight

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Chicago,IL

The Knights Of Temerity

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E
how about there are no indains in guild wars.

Does anyother country have casinos besides america?
Umm hell yeah there are!

Haven't you ever watched a James Bond movie?

They are all over Latin America and the Carribean and I KNOW there are some in the Mediteranian

Quote:
Originally Posted by Divinitys Creature
Haven't you seen any James Bond movies? They were not all just exotic locations in the US and they were not fictional places either . There are plenty of casinos in Europe and all the continents.
LOL... geez I should learn to scroll all the way down before I post... I missed yours!

RickSlick

RickSlick

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

Order of the Ravens

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mumblyfish
People have been gambling since time immemorial. Why is gambling irrelevant to the world of Tyria? If people want to put some gold on the line to have a little fun, let them.
Hello??? Are we forgetting that gold won gambling in Guild Wars (or really any MMORPG) can be transformed via various methods/websites to real life money? This creates the ability to gamble with real money online, which brings on a whole slew of online gambling legal gray areas that I doubt ArenaNet is set up to deal with: http://www.the-surfs-up.com/news/gam...nlinenews.html

My-Excuse

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/Mo

why not make a GWG gambling game. some one is designated as the set person to invite then they just do it that way.

healthy and safe (as healthy as gambling can get that is).

Quote:
Originally Posted by RickSlick
Hello??? Are we forgetting that gold won gambling in Guild Wars (or really any MMORPG) can be transformed via various methods/websites to real life money? This creates the ability to gamble with real money online, which brings on a whole slew of online gambling regulations/laws that I doubt ArenaNet is set up to deal with.
i believe that doing this is against the EULA.

also because it is not directly gambling with real money, it does not need to go under any real laws i think.

Kai Nui

Kai Nui

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Behind you with a knife

Celebrity Gangsters [FamE]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by RickSlick
Hello??? Are we forgetting that gold won gambling in Guild Wars (or really any MMORPG) can be transformed via various methods/websites to real life money? This creates the ability to gamble with real money online, which brings on a whole slew of online gambling regulations/laws that I doubt ArenaNet is set up to deal with.
Not really, since ArenaNet have the rule in place that you can't sell thier property on the internet as your own. Even though people do sell GWG online already and they can't stop it, the point is that it shouldn't even be happening in the first place. Gambling with fake money is allowed, but if you're exchanging it for real money, then that's not. But that doesn't stop people from doing it.