Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
If there are five entries and one "zero ticket" (regardless of why it exists) and the lottery is perfectly fair, the "six" tickets all have a one-in-six equal chance of winning.

The fact that in this circumstance the zero can win does not make it a "scam", it makes it a fair contest with a chance that the contest will not have a winner (regardless of the reason for that chance existing, though a big seems far more likely than a deliberate inclusion).

Regardless of this chance of failure, in the circumstance that someone does win the lottery, the lottery was fair between those entrants.
Just chipping in because I think you're misunderstanding the poster's request: most "random number generators" on computers are actually pseudo-random. If you go on random.org, which is a pretty common website for drawing randomised results, you can see a blurb about pseudo-randomness on the main page. In some games, this pseudorandomness can be exploited to give you a result you want. An example is RNG manipulation in Pokemon where you use it to get shinies or whatever else you want way more quickly than by pure chance. The mechanics behind pseudorandomness is pretty entrenched in deep mathematics that isn't really suitable for an MMO forum, but basically, what the poster is concerned about is that the method FFXIV use can also be exploited.