2013-06-28, 07:42 AM
Derosis Wrote:In DotA or League of Legends or Warcraft 3 or StarCraft II. Everything is equal for the player in front of them. Everyone has an equal chance of winning until the better man comes out. The cards are random for Poker, yet everyone knows what Heros/Champions are picked. What Items there are in the shops, what Protoss/Zerg/Teran are better with/against, and vice versa. Everything is laid out bare in front of you, yet strategy against your opponent is what you use as skill. Microing small units, and macroing the map. It takes many hours of practice, and years of experience to get to the potential some PAID BY SPONSORS Team like Na'Vi from DotA, or a global gaming brand known as EG, or even TSM Snapdragon from League of Legends. There is also a big thing when it's called E-SPORTS by the entirety of the world as well. And it's featured on ESPN, MLG, and etc so forth.
Ok, but I know for a fact there are sponsored poker players, poker tournaments are featured on TV, and being a skilled poker player isn't random (despite the card draw) else the same people wouldn't always be the ones who end up winning.
Do you think the people who are good at poker just magically happened upon it? No, they also spent " many hours of practice, and years of experience to get to the potential some PAID BY SPONSORS" practicing to use "strategy against your opponent is what you use as skill.".
Either name some things that are significantly different between the principle of putting money down on the two different games for a cash prize (those don't exist), or accept that the act of betting money (an entry fee) for a cash prize IS gambling.
That said, there are probably al ot of equivilant areasa where gambling is occuring that aren't being taxed (yet?). I don't know, I'm not Swiss.
Jettono Wrote:I should have worded it differently. What I did mean to say is that this now requires permits for ALL LAN parties, even the ones where there's no prize nor entry fee involved. Unless there's a separate part of the law excluding that.
Though I did say it wasn't explicitly gambling, I can kinda see now that it is still gambling. I didn't quite think about the paid ones. My mistake.
This law only applies to the tournaments where money is being bet, which is why, pineapple this source. Latest info actually suggests it only applies to internet cafes where money is being bet AND the only focus is gaming. So literally nowhere is affected by this.