What is Online Gambling?

Again. You are not "purchasing" a gachapon ticket. You are not paying real-world money for it.
I have old mule accounts with thousands of Maple Points on them, which I never paid a cent for. I can buy Gachapon tickets with those Maple Points, since they are a form of NX.

Congratulations, you have holdovers from previous events. But that isn't sufficient to be grandfathered into the "no purchase necessary" stipulation, as new accounts have no means to play Gachapon without first paying a Consideration.


Here's an interesting thing I found in the Georgia gambling code:

16-12-22.

(a) A person commits the offense of commercial gambling when he intentionally does any of the following acts:
[...]
(5) Sells chances upon the partial or final result of or upon the margin of victory in any game or contest or upon the performance of any participant in any game or contest

Sells chances on the margin of victory? The performance of any participant in any game? Well now, in MapleStory, performance is largely dominated by stats, which are in turn largely dominated by potentials, and heavily governed by Miracle Cubes. Hm... Looks like Nexon will have to deny service to the entire state of Georgia.

AWHOOPS
Better rule out Texas too!
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Do.../PE.47.htm

(9) "Thing of value" means any benefit, but does not include an unrecorded and immediate right of replay not exchangeable for value.

Miracle Cubes don't award right of replay. With Miracle Cubes, a win is a augmentation of stats on an item. There's our benefit.
Now we have satisfied the Prize condition.
Strike three, Nexon. You're out!