Have you ever gambled in a video game?

[StaceyPowers]

Have you ever gambled while playing a video game? I don’t mean the casino mini-games in RDR or such—I mean staking in-game money in multiplayer games with real economies.

I played roulette in a MUD when I was younger. But I only did it once. After that, I learned about the Gambler’s Fallacy =D

 

[Kane99]

Of course, GTA for the most part. But most games that have gambling, I've used to try and make some extra money. RDR2 for example has poker, and other card games if I'm not mistaken. I don't usually play the ones in RDR2, at least not yet in this playthrough. Too lazy to learn the actual games myself lol. 

[killamch89]

GTA and RDR2 as @Kane99 said and some other games. I'm not a compulsive gambler but I'll try it in games because I know that it doesn't have any real world consequences such as me losing lots of money.

[Kane99]

1 minute ago, killamch89 said:

GTA and RDR2 as @Kane99 said and some other games. I'm not a compulsive gambler but I'll try it in games because I know that it doesn't have any real world consequences such as me losing lots of money.

Those are just a couple of them. I think most open world games, at least modern ones, have some form of gambling and betting. I know Sleeping Dogs had some gambling options in the world. I imagine Yakuza seires and Shenmue do as well. I think most of the GTA games do it as well. Watch Dogs series as well I imagine. Essentially, most open world games that take place in mostly modern times, will usually have some form of gambling/betting options. 

[Clasher]

Lol, i do that a lot with my buddies most especially on FIFA tournaments and the likes.

We bet which player would win the competition it's fun and sometimes the loser only gets to buy the whole clique drinks on our next time out.

[Empire]

I had a friend who had a gambling addiction, I know he's spent thousands on those mobile games. One of them was Brave Frontier. So really, is that any better or worse, it's just a choice where to dump the money sometimes. 

Me, I have did basic in video games, but it was not real it's fake LOL never open my wallet in the realife. 

[Kane99]

On 8/3/2022 at 7:13 AM, Empire said:

I had a friend who had a gambling addiction, I know he's spent thousands on those mobile games. One of them was Brave Frontier. So really, is that any better or worse, it's just a choice where to dump the money sometimes. 

Me, I have did basic in video games, but it was not real it's fake LOL never open my wallet in the realife. 

I would never gamble for real on those mobile games. So many of those games are predatory and pretty much steal your money. I think a lot of these apps are forced to give out a disclaimer about gambling, at least I would hope they do, because these games are so horrible with the predatory practices they take to get your hard earned cash. 

On top of that, there's got to be many scam apps that get by on these mobile stores. It makes you wonder how many people have gambled through these mobile games and never won a thing. Or got anything good in return. 

Oh and people who gamble for digital items that can't be sold or redeemed for cash, why you do dis? 

[Justin11]

I was even an addicted gambler via different genres of games. I gambled in the past with friends around MK, MGP, PES etc. And I loss many contest and won as well. I played gambling via MMO, lost some interesting matches which I thought I would've won freely. 

[Kane99]

10 hours ago, Justin11 said:

I was even an addicted gambler via different genres of games. I gambled in the past with friends around MK, MGP, PES etc. And I loss many contest and won as well. I played gambling via MMO, lost some interesting matches which I thought I would've won freely. 

I can't do bets with real money. I would feel too much pressure and would probably end up losing on my bet. But, I can see a lot of people doing bets on these games and then some. I bet Madden and other sports games have some gamers betting on who wins. I'm kinda tempted to start a tournament with friends to play a sports game or something, could be fun. 😄 

[Justin11]

17 hours ago, Kane99 said:

I can't do bets with real money. I would feel too much pressure and would probably end up losing on my bet. But, I can see a lot of people doing bets on these games and then some. I bet Madden and other sports games have some gamers betting on who wins. I'm kinda tempted to start a tournament with friends to play a sports game or something, could be fun. 😄 

😂, That's how crazy I was in the past. Gambling sucked my head and I was just playing to get something out of my passion for playing some sort of video games. That was the reason why I engaged in different sorts of gambling with friends and other gamers. To be frank, I gained it back then betting with fellow gamers. 

[Kane99]

4 hours ago, Justin11 said:

😂, That's how crazy I was in the past. Gambling sucked my head and I was just playing to get something out of my passion for playing some sort of video games. That was the reason why I engaged in different sorts of gambling with friends and other gamers. To be frank, I gained it back then betting with fellow gamers. 

I can't do it. Gambling is so much different than in real life. I rarely gamble for real. I know the likelihood of winning most lotteries is very slim to none. I've played the mega millions and your typical scratch offs, but I can't see myself spending much on gambling. I'm cheap, and the same goes for gambling. If I go to a casino for example, I'm probably betting $50-$100 max and that's it. If I win big, I'll stop.

But yeah, fake gambling in games is way different. I don't need to gamble in real life. 

[Heatman]

I had it done countless times in playing Red Dead Redemption 2. It's actually kinda big fun for me. Taking it off the in game money, I did it a whole lot with my guys whenever we played FIFA games together. 

[Kane99]

4 hours ago, Heatman said:

I had it done countless times in playing Red Dead Redemption 2. It's actually kinda big fun for me. Taking it off the in game money, I did it a whole lot with my guys whenever we played FIFA games together. 

Yeah with rdr2 I didn't do much gambling in this playthrough. I did the five finger thing in camp, but only did one of two rounds and that was it. 

As for fifa, do you mean betting with your friends in real life?

[Heatman]

On 8/8/2022 at 5:12 PM, Kane99 said:

 

As for fifa, do you mean betting with your friends in real life?

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. It's a common thing for my friends. They would never play FIFA just for the sake of playing and having fun. The outside betting will always come in to add more fire to how determined we play. 

[Clasher]

On 8/8/2022 at 12:38 PM, Heatman said:

I had it done countless times in playing Red Dead Redemption 2. It's actually kinda big fun for me. Taking it off the in game money, I did it a whole lot with my guys whenever we played FIFA games together. 

It's sounds strange to see that many people actually bet on RDR2 I haven't considered that before.

I do bet on FIFA ,racing games , fighter games and the likes but I never considered placing a bet on an action adventure game like RDR2.