The creators of World of Tanks say you're stupid if you say that betting is harmful

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Betting on eSports competitions and streaming platforms is actuality around which have started discussions after increasingly frequent controversies on the subject. Recently came alive gambling scene around Rocket League what would make the creators of the game say that they do not support online gambling for their game.

Topics about gambling also touched and head of competitive gaming branch in Wargaming who claims that is stupid to defend betting and gambling in the context of eSports and video games in general.

Mohamed Fadl from Wargaming for Gamespot said how he sees betting as natural part of the sport and that he definitely thinks in the direction of introducing betting in World of Tanks. His idea is to limit betting on virtual currency, but globally thinks that the betting in the future is going to be a huge source of income for eSports competition and streaming platforms.

Tagged with: Games with tanks, Betting in games, Controversy

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skimmedmilk2

Lunar

Who cares!? Let people do what they want with their money! Seriously, this is such a ridiculous communist debate.

Suléimano

Casual

Yes of course, apparently it's stupid to think that betting can affect the obvious demographic that is composed of children that can develop addictions by losing unnecessary amounts of money from their parents. Or the fact that they know next to nothing about consequences and when they lose valuable shit like in the TF2/CS GO gambling scene, where they tend to scam people to compensate for the loss, which happened numerous times.

Again, if you're a grown ass adult with your own money and you gamble on gaming or anywhere, be my guest, i have nothing against it. But to say that it's stupid to think betting is harmful in video games is a pretty stupid thing to say in itself.

But yes, that's coming from the guy that said it's an easy prediction that World of Tanks will still be popular for 10, 20 and even 30 years in to the future.

I definitely won't deny that WOT has a pretty large fanbase currently, but to say it's an "easy" bet that your game will still be popular for the duration where NES games evolved in today's games, is a pretty pretentious thing to say, and more than anything it makes you look like a dick, especially with the gambling comment.

It's easier to bet that a better game will come out in 30 years from now.

chjumaliev

Kyrgyz

@skimmedmilk2 totally understand and agree with you

SpaceInvader

All your base are belong to us.

If you can bet on amateur sports, why can't you do it with professional eSport games? Of course as long as you are 18+/21+ yo (depends on a country's domestic law) and using your own money.

hbarkas

Kuang Grade Mark Eleven

I think there's general consent that adults should be able to bet if they like. As Sulimen pointed out many players of popular games are 'adolescent males'(kids). In civilized countries betting is illegal under a certain age.

To keep things legit you need a method to verify the betters are of age plus supervise the betting platform to avoid scams as we had with CSGO sites.