Quote Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah View Post
Laws against gambling in a video game when real life money is not involved...

Actually with the rating ARR has and it being an online game where you can potentially BUY Gil to use in game to GAMBLE, does make it a real life law issue, have you heard of online gambling? You Gamble online for coins(Gil) that you bought buy using your real money and then you can convert them, however you have to be of legal gambling age in order to do so and being underage can cause some grief between the website, you, and the law.

A good read if you are interested in learning:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardf...time-has-come/


Don't want to read, basically its illegally legally illegal. According to the Federal Government (US) Online Gambling is illegal, so to work around this the servers are located out of the US, however by transferring those winnings to the states you can also be pegged as a law-breaker. So where do FFXIV fit into this. The fact that we (players) are able (although not supposed to from the FFXIV ToS) to buy gil using actual dollars, in turn then being able to use said bought gil for gambling, it can be considered illegal. So again, its the MAIN reason why it took FFXI like 7 years after the launch before the Mog Lottery (and people wanted it long prior), but what took so long was because the area was a gray area in the law books. And if the Feds in the US see a company making lots of money and there is a gray area, why wouldn't they pursue that and try to get a cut of the cash? (This is the Feds we are talking about) So, please don't post your meme pictures before you read into what your commenting on, its gonna make you look sillier than the meme you posted.