Quote from: Jawhead999 on September 25, 2022, 02:20:28 PM

Quote from: blue_hurricanger on September 25, 2022, 10:43:01 AM

Interesting. So to Twitch, there is a difference between gambling games like slots, roulette, and dice compare to gambling activities like poker and sports betting? Heck, lootbox is considered as gambling in some countries but I bet there are plenty of streamers who did the lootbox stream. esport like CSGO, Dota2 betting on live there right now, on the casting channel and no one bat an eye.

Very inconsistent treatment from Twitch. Like they did that on a whim and tho I said I don't like gambling advertising near kids, this is very unfair treatment of gambling games.

Maybe Twitch think slots, roulette and dice are luck based games where any users can play without thinking any strategy (of course there's no strategy on luck based games). While poker and sports betting are skill based games where you can actually earn money if you're very good analyst.

However I tend to agree lootbox stream or gacha should be considered as lucky based games since it works similar like slots, roulette and dice. Actually there's many cases where a kids borrow their parents credit card only for lootbox stream or gacha.

Yep, if they want to segment between luck-based and skill-based gambling. They open a paradox of people (or gamblers) arguing whether this game is luck-based or skill-based. Then we would also discussion about gambling/betting that have both of these. Shit is really stupid and Twitch clearly doesn't know what they're doing, ban things on a whim like that.

Quote from: Pierre 2 on September 25, 2022, 02:31:36 PM

It is really hard to be sure which one is more gambling and which one isn't with that. I also think its %100 inconsistent. I personally see lootbox dropping as gambling honestly. It can convince to kids open random boxes. Its definitely gambling for expensive item/drop. Slots, roulette, and dice are easy and obvious ones, these are part of physical casinos even. But with poker and sports betting? I mean if these are permitted, that just doesn't make any sense to me. Poker has a strategy but if its played for money its another gambling activity. Sports betting? I won't even argue.

Agree with you two here, lootbox is 100% luck based but hey, it'll stay on Twitch cause pretty much every game nowadays has it in their games. Mobile games with their gacha shits are also a variant of lootbox, luck-based too. As I said, Twitch really doesn't know what they're doing. Seems like if something already become too big, Twitch doesn't dare to ban it even with the pretext of 'for the kids!' So maybe once slots, roulette and dice become big enough, plenty of people play it, Twitch might include it back.