2013-06-25, 11:27 PM
Sephie Wrote:I think of NX and MapleStory as buying tokens at an Arcade.Have you been paying attention? The requisite characteristic, a payment of Consideration, is present regardless of such abstractions, because play is initiated by the spending of points which are not given free of charge. Additionally, the reason why arcades are legal is they are games of skill, not purely games of luck. If a video arcade held any games of chance with a payout of a prize, and the establishment forbids entrants from bringing in foreign tokens not purchased from the establishment, that establishment is then an illegal house of gambling.
Whether you waste $200 on tokens on the things that give more tickets or dumping all of it into Time Crisis/DDR, the moment you give money to the arcade in exchange for tokens I don't believe there's anything a court can do from that point. If you were putting real cash instead of tokens into a "Wheel of Fortune" game, then there would be a legal problem.
Also, you can't argue that you didn't get what you paid for because you paid for tokens. The amount of tickets or quantifiable enjoyment you gain or you think should be "promised" is irrelevant because those tickets have no cash value.
The reason you cannot win in court against Nexon is because you, yourself, the consumer, patron, paid for ingame "tokens" and nothing more. What you do with those worthless tokens is not really of much concern to the court.