Quote Originally Posted by dutiona View Post
Excuse-me but I gave an example where the result was manipulated to make another person win instead of the real winner, demonstrating in particular why adding another ghost participant rig the lottery.
You gave an example where what you're calling "manipulation" isn't manipulation at all. It's a random shifting of the range prior to the drawing of results. The thing that matters is that each ticket's range is equal.

Manipulation means that someone is meddling with either the process or results to ensure that one particular person wins. Narrowing the range cannot affect that. It might affect which person randomly gets it, but that's no more rigged than the random number itself coming out slightly different.

Think of a raffle with paper tickets. Five tickets in the drawing box, each with a theoretically even chance of being picked out. A sixth blank ticket is added. This introduces the possibility of the blank ticket being picked, and slightly reduces the chance of any one of the other tickets being picked, but does not improve or reduce the chance of which of the five genuine tickets gets picked.

The scenario you are talking about is simply the digital equivalent of this raffle. Each ticket's number range got shifted along a bit. Maybe they got moved out of the winning position, maybe they got moved into it, but it's still a random lottery and everyone had an equal chance of that happening to them.

A rigged raffle, on the other hand, would mean someone conspiring to ensure a specific ticket is drawn out of the box somehow – or in the digital version, ensuring a specific output that corresponds to one particular person's ticket. That isn't the case in your example.


Quote Originally Posted by dutiona View Post
The scam part is the prejudice of all the entrant of the lottery having their wining range reduced, significantly, sometimes even up to 50% of their winning range disappearing.

I disagree when you say it is not a scam and is just an error, a mistake. They are advertising and selling a feature in the game for real money (subscription fees). And when you want to redeem this feature and actually try it out, you get kicked by the system because of a programming error? That is not even audible.
You're talking as if this failure is permanent – as if nobody will ever get that house now because the zero cane up. That is simply not the case.

All it takes to resolve this is to draw another number, this time with the fail chance removed. Someone will get the house.