<![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes! - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes! - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> Jesus, what's wrong with gambling? You know the term 'grinding' came from poker way before there was an EQ or UO.

DrFresh

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> @2NinjasTapedTogether: Brilliant! That's worth a stalker, methinks.

blackadvent

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> @onomeister: We on the internets (and by "We" I mean "I") believe that it is easier to shorten the phrase "friends\suckers" into the much more convenient "fuckers."

Please take note and apply to all your former and future posts. Thank you!

But seriously... MMO+Gambling=bad idea.

2NinjasTapedTogether

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> Instead of lame gimmickry and microtransactions, can someone, anyone some up with a compelling real-time combat engine for an MMO? Please? Please/?

Strangelove

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> ...so by pyramid schemes, do you mean that if I sign up friends to this MMO and make them buy a package of virtual products online, I'll make a virtual commission from that virtual sale, and then I'd get more virtual commission based on the number of signees those friends/suckers sign up? REALLY????

onomeister

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> Whoever is spending that kind of cash on an MMO had it coming anyways.

oddworld

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> Joy! Now there's a real penalty for MMO addiction- actual bankruptcy!

blackadvent

]]> <![CDATA['Online Gaming Grows Up' - Gambling and Pyramid Schemes!]]> Sounds like a trap to me. Lure you with incentives and then trap you in the "pyramid schemes" which someone always looses out on.

Gentleben-Nintendo Club Star Whore

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