Spinning for a Prize: The House Always Wins

Discussion in 'Strategy' started by AutoeroticMummification, Jan 12, 2018.

  1. Support and nearly at 4k, congrats
     
  2. 1- Gambling.
    Gambling often requires you contributing to a pot, and potentially losing something. You risk something that you earnt that can go towards puchasing something else.
    Spin tokens can only be used to spin, and are so easy to earn that they are essentially free.

    2 - Digital Appearances.
    The weightings of each outcome on the spinner are not equal. However, to make the physical display of the spinner match the physical outcomes, you would need to scroll through at least 100 items, because for every 1 (3 hypnocat) drop, you would need umpteen many cash prizes to drop. It would be inefficient and boring to scroll through. Only 1 or 2 copies of each drop are shown to save space and give people the ability to see what they can get.

    3- Don't be an idiot.
    They are obviously weighted differently, with the more valuable items being rarer than the less valuable ones. That's how weighting and balancing always works on these sorts of things. If you've never come across a prize wheel, take this as a prime and normal example. Nothing out of the ordinary or unexpected, or even misleading about it. You should just use or adapt common sense.

    4- It is rigged.
    Technically this would be true if the spinner was a physical object with outcomes equidistant, and all equal, and a promise of no other factors, apart from the widths of the outcome panels.

    That is IF it was a real spinner. This is a digital one and this is how we roll in the digital world. The weightings are totally low on some panels over others. Absolutely 100 percent stacked. But do you know what the devs did to make up for that unfair weighting? They made them more valuable.

    Is a 1% chance at $1000 is equal to a %100 chance of $10?
    Maybe this seems a little unbalanced. Let's inflate this a little.

    Is a 1% chance at $1,000,000 better or worse than a 100% chance at $1?
     
  3. Don't put your hopes up to the spinner…
     
  4. Its like a gacha game
     
  5. Why wouldn’t the house win? ? It’s a business, not a charity case. I don’t know why they would want to throw out free ecs, cats, etc. Of course for a slim chance at a good reward, they hope to obtain and often do get a greater return via ad profit. It’s economics ?‍♀️ or common sense...
     
  6. of course it’s rigged! people wouldn’t be buying cats and kinis if it was easy to win off the spinner. 