Goonhub
11-10-2022, 08:58 AM
Gambling mechanics shouldn't be as profitable as old slots were, since it wasn't so much *gambling* as it was putting in a certain amount of money and then sitting there pressing a button and generating more money. I think that gambling should be risky, with high payouts and high losses, so you actually have to contemplate doing it vs. just repeatedly trying to get a massive payout.
I don't think either of these are particularly good arguments. It's obvious that there's not *really* people making profit off of the slot machines in-game, following the logic of that argument why should slot machines *ever* fail to pay out? Just because a company doesn't directly benefit from you losing doesn't mean that the game should be obligated to not represent slot machines *as if* they were run by a company that wanted to steal your money, though as far as I know the odds are slightly tipped towards the player anyways.
Secondly, the stock market is dusty, old, and honestly feels incomplete. It's a system that's thought about so rarely that I feel the reason it's a consistent source of income is accidental, and not conveying a design goal to 'add profitable means of gambling' like your argument implies. It's just not a really foundational system that informs how other mechanics should work.
(11-09-2022, 08:49 PM)Kamikaze Mongoose Wrote: If the house was real, I wouldn't win the lottery 1+ times every time I bought 50 tickets. Nobody benefits from your loss at a slot machine and nobody gets fired when you win the lottery over and over. Stock machines are also pretty consistent at giving you money which isn't very close to stock options in real life.*
Why are slots the only useless method of gambling?
I don't think either of these are particularly good arguments. It's obvious that there's not *really* people making profit off of the slot machines in-game, following the logic of that argument why should slot machines *ever* fail to pay out? Just because a company doesn't directly benefit from you losing doesn't mean that the game should be obligated to not represent slot machines *as if* they were run by a company that wanted to steal your money, though as far as I know the odds are slightly tipped towards the player anyways.
Secondly, the stock market is dusty, old, and honestly feels incomplete. It's a system that's thought about so rarely that I feel the reason it's a consistent source of income is accidental, and not conveying a design goal to 'add profitable means of gambling' like your argument implies. It's just not a really foundational system that informs how other mechanics should work.