Originally Posted by
Battlebeard
Can you at least now start to agree, you don't buy DIRECT power with the crests, as you can clearly see, you buy a CHANCE at it, which is indirect power as you eventually gonna get something better by buying more, but no guarantees, so it's not direct. If we debunk that, I was right at point 1. Diablo Immortal and almost every single video game has FREE gambling (I normally call it RNG but w/e) Now I'm gonna explain, why it's NOT EXCLUSIVELY PAID GAMBLING.
Another car example, about gambling!
Another exentric guy runs a gambling business. This guy is omega rich and likes giving out free cars, just accept he is a bit strange. Anyway, he runs a business like this:
He has 5 cars behind 5 sheets, one is good, four is awful. He is so rich, he allows anyone who has a so called Car-Token, to pick a car. This car-token is handed out by the rich guy himself, he gives everyone who wants one a free car-token a month, what a nice guy. I'm sure you get by now that the Car-token represent a Free Legendary Crest.
Anyway, people play, some get the good car, most get the bad car, he run his gambling business, no one pays a dime to play. They are limited to play once a month, but still it's free and you get a car monthly, a good deal.
One day, the rich guy start to realize, he's no longer very rich, but he still wanna do his gambling business. So he start to sell Car-tokens in adition to the free he gives away. The car-token he sell, lets call it Car-token 2, is IDENTICAL to the free one. Car-token 2 doesn't give an increased chance of getting the nice car, nor does it have any other unique effect. Now obviously, car-token 2 represent the paid store legendary crest.
Steve buys 5 car-token 2 and starts using them. It doesn't guarantee him the nice car, after each car he buy, he adds another one and shuffle them, so Steve just get 5 crap cars.
So, adding a paid car-token doesn't really change the game at all. You don't get better odds at getting the new car, it's still one in five (20%) NOR do you get a better car IF you get the nice one. Car-token 2 doesn't give nicer prices than car-token 1, ALL it does, is allowing people to gamble MORE OFTEN.
Same of course with Diablo. A paid legendary crest doesn't give better gems than a free one, it just allows you to run more rifts. The ODDS may increase of getting a good one, but the CHANCE will remain the same. And if you google "Difference between odds and chance" you can get it more fully explained.
So by allowing people to buy legendary crests, it doesn't really have ANY affect on the gambling aspect. It doesn't add MORE gambling to the game, it doesn't increase your chances, it doesn't offer better loot.
If you are against gambling in games, and if you hate the idea of Car-token 2, you also HAVE to hate the idea of the free car-token 1, because both of them works exactly the same way. FREE GAMBLING and PAID GAMBLING are THE SAME, you either like both, or hate both.
Hence the argument to say that you pay to gamble in Diablo doesn't work. The gambling is there EVEN FOR FREE players, and buy buying more crests, it doesn't increase your chances, just your odds. Again, google the difference, and that is a HUGE difference.
Now if you are against BOTH types of gambling, that is fine, I respect that, but you cannot be against only one of them, that is hypocritical because there is no exclusive paid gambling.