Comments on: Uncover the Truth About Gambling in Second Life | What You Need to Know!

By: Chandra Kusari

Chandra Kusari — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:36:18 +0000

Creepalicious!!!

The idea that SL is the place where gambling addics go, cause there are no restriction freaks me out!

Those folks need help not an outlet for their addiction.

Thankies for looking into it roomie.

By: Bob Morane

Bob Morane — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:59:44 +0000

A well written article!
I have never been much into gambling and stuff like slot machines doen’t offer anything to me. The few times I have been invited to play poker among friends was with fixed and small buy ins.

But I can see how easy it is to get lost in gambling.

And SL being a place where gambling more or less happens without regulation, and if I get Fox correctly no guarantee the games arent rigged, disturbs me greatly.

As to the opening of their own Casino. Offering a place to gamble with no financial risk seems good, but then you should not offer the guests to buy game tokens with RL money.

By: Fox Harker

Fox Harker — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:52:36 +0000

In the early days of SL, the encouraged gambling, and a surprising amount of the traffic was driven by people who would log in and sit in bleachers in what were known as “SLingo” and “Tringo” parlors, playing those two games. A good job to make some money at the time was as a game host. It was insanely popular. I’d guess that at least half of their traffic at the time was for SLingo and Tringo. SLingo was simply a version of Bingo, with some variants, played inworld, as a group. Tringo was a bit more creative, combining elements of the group play and Tetris. It actually was sold as a game outside of SL but it didn’t take off. You can read about it here. https://www.gamezebo.com/reviews/tringo-review/
I’ve never been much for gambling, (When I gamble, I lose.) but I always thought that it was a particularly bad choice in SL. Back in the day, when you could go to a casino and play any game you liked, there was absolutely no way to examine the scripts that the gaming machines were running, and thus, no way at all to tell that the machines paid off at the rates they claimed…or to tell if the other avatars around who were “winning” money, were actually real residents or bots.
I haven’t been gambling in SL since the “skill based” games have come in so I have no idea what assurances are offered now.
Anyway, I thought I’d offer the perspective of an SL oldster here. 🙂 – Foxy (19 years in SL as of this month.)