Going by that definition, my roommate is an inveterate gambler; he plays EvE, and occasionally engages in corporate wars in which he can lose his ship. He would be out actual real-world money if his battleship were destroyed in one of these conflicts.
There are nuances. It's not (legally speaking) "gambling" if you get something of value every time you play. And those little dribbles of lobi are of value. Perhaps not to you, but then some of the lockbox ships are of no value to me and I'd be throwing them in the Exchange if I ever got one of those. (Others, obviously, I'd cling to like a drowning man to a rubber raft.) I can guarantee you that someone out there actually wants that lobi. (Now if only that could be sold in the Exchange...)
If lobi could be sold on the exchange I'd lean more to the not gambling side.
Lockboxes are gambling. You open them, you hope for something awesome. Nobody truly opens them just for the lobi. You need to open between 150 & 200 lockboxes to get enough lobi for a ship.
That's $150 minimum for a ship. Nobody in their right mind would think that was a good idea.
Tell that to all the people that spent a fortune on the first lockbox trying to get a Jem'Hadar bugship :P
I know people who have spent over $300 trying to get a ship from a lockbox. My sympathy for people who do that is at 0% - they could have bought keys, sold them on the exchange and bought the ship they wanted with EC.
As that has now served the purpose for alerting us to this definition of a problem, this thread will now be closed to prevent any further gambling with TOS.
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If lobi could be sold on the exchange I'd lean more to the not gambling side.
That's $150 minimum for a ship. Nobody in their right mind would think that was a good idea.
Free Tibet!
Tell that to all the people that spent a fortune on the first lockbox trying to get a Jem'Hadar bugship :P
I know people who have spent over $300 trying to get a ship from a lockbox. My sympathy for people who do that is at 0% - they could have bought keys, sold them on the exchange and bought the ship they wanted with EC.
Free Tibet!
As that has now served the purpose for alerting us to this definition of a problem, this thread will now be closed to prevent any further gambling with TOS.