Quote Originally Posted by Catwho View Post
This would hold more weight if SE allowed the purchase of gil directly, like some games do, and if there was an official (or officially tolerated) method of converting gil, or MGP even, back into dollars. There is neither. Any slot machines would give rewards in MGP, not gil, and there is no means of converting MGP directly into gil, even by purchasing prizes, since all MGP rewards are not sellable or tradeable.
again, it's not a question of how the currency conversion works, it's a question of the letter of the law specifically spelling out what a slot machine is and outright outlawing that construct.
They're VERY specific explicitly because of the very things Japanese gambling environments actually do to skirt their own laws. The difference is the Japanese let the loopholes continue to exist, while other countries narrowed their definitions to fill the loopholes.
Hell, Greece once narrowed their definition so much they outlawed regular arcade machines. For a while, Pac-Man was considered as illegal as a slot machine.