PWE or Perfect World Entertainment is an online game publisher. Some of the online games it publishes are Star Trek Online, Champions Online, RaiderZ and Blacklight: Retribution. Besides being published by PWE and Free-To-Play, all these games have another thing in common and you'll find it in each game's item shop or marketplace.
(A sample Chance Pack in Blacklight: Retribution)
Each game has a different name for it but, in general, you can describe it as an item that gives out uncertain or random items. In Star Trek Online and Champions Online it's called a Lockbox. Blacklight: Retribution's name for it is Chance Pack and, in RaiderZ, it has what it calls a Lucky Box. All of these items may have different names but all of them have the same function and that is to give out random items.
Also, these items are bought with Zen and Zen is bought with real money. With that in mind, buying these items is almost like gambling because you'll only get a random chance of getting the actual item you want from it and, instead of using chips or gambling chips, you use Zen to pay for them. So, is PWE running a massively multiplayer online gaming casino?
Casinos are almost synonymous to gambling and, with the existence of such items in games published by PWE, you are like gambling with your money every time you buy any of these items. Of course, if all you want is to gamble then why not just go to an online casino and gamble till you drop but, then again, why go there when you can do it in your favorite PWE published MMO.
(A Lock Box in Star Trek Online)
Gambling has no place in any massively multiplayer online game. PWE can call it a lockbox, a chance pack, a lucky box or whatever it wants to call it but, as long as it gives out random items and it is bought with Zen which is bought with real money, buying it is still gambling because what you'll get when the item is opened is uncertain or random.
This is just a suggestion but PWE should just sell the item directly and not put it in a random box along with other useless items. By selling items directly and not putting them in a random box, the perception of gambling is removed from the item sold.
(A sample Chance Pack in Blacklight: Retribution)
Each game has a different name for it but, in general, you can describe it as an item that gives out uncertain or random items. In Star Trek Online and Champions Online it's called a Lockbox. Blacklight: Retribution's name for it is Chance Pack and, in RaiderZ, it has what it calls a Lucky Box. All of these items may have different names but all of them have the same function and that is to give out random items.
Also, these items are bought with Zen and Zen is bought with real money. With that in mind, buying these items is almost like gambling because you'll only get a random chance of getting the actual item you want from it and, instead of using chips or gambling chips, you use Zen to pay for them. So, is PWE running a massively multiplayer online gaming casino?
Casinos are almost synonymous to gambling and, with the existence of such items in games published by PWE, you are like gambling with your money every time you buy any of these items. Of course, if all you want is to gamble then why not just go to an online casino and gamble till you drop but, then again, why go there when you can do it in your favorite PWE published MMO.
(A Lock Box in Star Trek Online)
Gambling has no place in any massively multiplayer online game. PWE can call it a lockbox, a chance pack, a lucky box or whatever it wants to call it but, as long as it gives out random items and it is bought with Zen which is bought with real money, buying it is still gambling because what you'll get when the item is opened is uncertain or random.
This is just a suggestion but PWE should just sell the item directly and not put it in a random box along with other useless items. By selling items directly and not putting them in a random box, the perception of gambling is removed from the item sold.
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