Thread: Different Gamblings

I think that in the inns around middle earth you should be able to play different games like Blackjack but mostly POKER. I think that would really work with different stakes of copper, silver and even gold coins. There could also be tournaments to win certain mounts or other store exclusives.

Thank you Turbine

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While this might seem a pleasant pasttime to some, it's still gambling. Simple. The implications are wide-ranging, from possible licensing and regulatory issues (online gambling depending on how it is executed), the resurgance of gold miners (folks will need that gold to gamble and the gold miners will find ways to oblige, making this gambling for money in an abstract), to what would the folks who own the rights say if their Middle Earth was turned into a casino (most likely you have violated the terms, sorry, we take it all back).

My suggestion - there are a number of online gambling sites available as well as games one can buy to play blackjack and poker (and a slew of other games as well). If someone wants to gamble, go there. Leave the gambling out of Middle Earth.

Originally Posted by Tarmuar

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While this might seem a pleasant pasttime to some, it's still gambling. Simple. The implications are wide-ranging, from possible licensing and regulatory issues (online gambling depending on how it is executed), the resurgance of gold miners (folks will need that gold to gamble and the gold miners will find ways to oblige, making this gambling for money in an abstract), to what would the folks who own the rights say if their Middle Earth was turned into a casino (most likely you have violated the terms, sorry, we take it all back).

My suggestion - there are a number of online gambling sites available as well as games one can buy to play blackjack and poker (and a slew of other games as well). If someone wants to gamble, go there. Leave the gambling out of Middle Earth.

Correct, and +rep. What's more, poker and blackjack are MODERN games. Even if it were possible to introduce gambling into the game without incurring lots of trouble, it would have to take some form appropriate to the Early Medieval period on which Middle-earth is modeled ... knucklebones, for instance, or hnefatafl. Even chess, at this period, would've been played only by Easterlings.

Yeah...no. It just doesn't feel very LOTRO or heroic or Tolkien-esque in my opinion. Maybe if there was some specific chance based game mentioned in lore a vice may be worked into the game (like pipeweed). But to my recollection. I think they have gambling and mini games like that in star wars and it is apart of their lore. Maybe you should try SWTOR.

Giving a number of things Tolkien wrote into LoTR for the The Shire, Whist might be a possibility, but how many people would know how to play it?

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

Originally Posted by djheydt

Correct, and +rep.

A quick thanks! Appreciate it.

Originally Posted by whheydt

Giving a number of things Tolkien wrote into LoTR for the The Shire, Whist might be a possibility, but how many people would know how to play it?

Yes, whist would fit in with the Edwardian character of the Shire. And the answer to your questiion is, Probably nobody. Of course, the same would be true of hnefatafl, but the latter is a lot simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games

Turbine spent a lot of effort adding gambling to their first game Asheron's Call. The feature failed for the following reasons:

1) People only Gamble when the system pays out more than they put in. It becomes a easy way to create free gold for little time investment

2) The rewards have to be useful to level capped characters. The want things like the Crystals, Legendary Items scrolls, Symbols for making First Ages in the loot tables. They want this stuff to drop often enough so that they do not get frustrated.

Otherwise people refuse the use the system. The development goes down the drain. Point 2 is a constant time waster. Turbine has to keep adding new stuff to the loot tables. Make sure they didn't mess up the win rate.

In Lotro, Turbine introduced "free" gambling via various gift boxes. Customers got really angry over the majority of prizes being worthless to the opener. Turbine finally created the "Phail" boxes. The ones that gives off the shower of snow, your character does the angry dance and your get a lump of coal.

This angry customer behavior because there is no Phat Loot is why Turbine has experimented with the Coin for everyone system. The Phat Loot is on the barter vendor. I need 8 coins for that. I get a coin each time I do the instance. I willing to run that instance 8 times.