Exposing Minecraft's ILLEGAL Server Gambling Operations…



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Recently, I’ve come across evidence that some minecraft servers such as CosmicPvP, had been deliberately rigging the odds of various functions on their server, potentially illegal behaviour…

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0:00 – Intro
0:47 – Gambling And Minecraft
3:05 – Mojang’s Failed Enforcement
4:42 – Melon SMP Data Analysis
7:49 – CosmicPvP’s Shady Slot Machine
12:13 – Illegal Deception
15:01 – Misleading Lootboxes
16:08 – Illegal?

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43 thoughts on “Exposing Minecraft's ILLEGAL Server Gambling Operations…”

  1. big servers can host hundreds if not thousands per month for a bunch of servers that can hold a lot of players each monitization may suck but they give people the ability to play on them for free a way to otherwise how would the servers be around without the money to sustain the costs

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  2. Gambling, by many people's definition, including, in many cases, the law, is if you can make real money with it through intended means. The reason most servers aren't allowed is because, despite loot boxes being allowed, pay-to-win isn't, making most loot boxes illegal. Note that Hypixel contains lootboxes, but they're never pay-to-win so Hypixel doesnt break the TOS. (correct me if I'm wrong)

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  3. Careful with that paraphrasing, this is a good video but you are really putting me off by paraphrasing really important stuff when reading out spesifics, gambling is where you spend money in hopes to gain something of monitary value, not get "stuff". With that being said cosmics allowing of real money trading kinda makes them fall under that definition.

    Dont get me wrong i hate the gambling stuff but please dont ruin your own credibility doing this sorta stuff, these are the sort of things they hide behind so instead of avoiding it find how they are breaking the real definition.

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  4. loot boxes, crates, even the little 2$ toys should be flat out illegal everywhere. I work retail and can't tell you how many times ive seen cheap "mystery item" toys get opened and tossed aside, not even stolen just looking for the one they want. If its in a small plastic bag i stop and help them feel to get the ones they want, its gambling for kids. Its disgusting and i genuinely hate selling them.

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  5. My boy Preston has fallen from grace, growing up he was one of my favourite creators. The moment it clicked in my head that he was running out of content was when he dropped the video “This is not click bait” it was a parkour vid from memory

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  6. Some of your math is a tiny bit skewed. For example, you should have calculated the probability of getting 2 crate keys with 3,500 or less loot boxes. That said, the difference here is pretty microscopic, so this wouldn't have affected your main point. I suppose you probably wanted to keep things simpler for the YouTube audience, too, so you're probably more right than me…

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  7. Calling this gambling is honestly disgraceful. I am a gambling addict and always have been from a young age and I played cosmicsky. Never once did I buy slot tickets or loot crates, instead I blew thousands on online casinos.

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  8. I would also like to point out some points about the psychology of the main age demographic (12-18 year olds). Many psychological studies have demonstrated that teenagers are risk averse. Teenagers are more likely to participate in risk based activities simply BECAUSE there is risk, and even more so when the ODDS of an outcome ARE UNCLEAR. In other words, teenagers seek ambiguity in their decision making to learn about the world more. Not only this, but in the brain the "reward" pathway develops much faster than the decision making and assessment regions (the prefrontal cortex) which doesn't finish developing until the age of 25. Furthermore, the effects of your peers are large. Some studies found the attitude of your peers is one of the major reasons teenagers participate in risk behaviour. The people on these servers likely look up to the youtubers running them, or could even have parasocial relationships with them, another factor potentially encouraging participation in the gambling side of a server.

    When you factor this in with gambling in video games being widely accessible in so many different game types, and also addictive, the effects are quite widespread. These servers are not only taking advantage of people who don't have the time/resources/knowledge to complete the data analysis themselves, but are also capitalising on the fact their main demographic is developmentally not at the level to make proper decisions.

    Although most people understand marketing gambling to under 18 yr olds is bad, I think it's equally important to know more about WHY it's so bad. The morals of these people become more questionable when you really consider the developmental stages of the main demographic.

    SOURCES:
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28098227/
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254081726_Who_Takes_Risks_When_and_Why_Determinants_of_Risk_Taking
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25089362/
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369324684_Effects_of_peer_observation_on_risky_decision-making_in_adolescence_A_meta-analytic_review

    Just as a disclaimer, the information as i displayed in my comment are taken mainly from a university lecture, the sources listed were listed within the lecture itself.

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  9. At 5:35 in the video, Epic goes over some statistics about the chances of receiving a 'Silver Key', and shows what is presumably a website that calculates the percentage. In the website, it displays "Probability of exactly 2 events". In statistics there are different formulas for finding the percentage of a certain thing happening. The algorithm used in that website excludes any event quantities besides 2; (it omits 0, and 1), omitting 0 and 1 from the formula makes it seem much smaller (it's still really small, and is most likely still fraudulent ), but it's something that I saw that was incorrect, let that be intentionally or unintentional (I don't expect people to have a running knowledge of calculating statistics lol).

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  10. Sadly I gotta be that person to say it
    Chance does not work with math. It's all probability you can be that guy who opens 10000 crates and still get the lowest chance reward now theoretically you should have it guaranteed after a sertian number of unbowed but that's not how chance works sadly

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  11. 5:20 To be fair to them, this might not have even been their issue at all. Chance and probability are a very difficult thing to calculate.
    When opening crates, you have to get closer to millions of crates to see the actual distribution… More information on this later…

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