Man,EA must HATE me.

annettemarc wrote:
I'll ask for the third time on this forum and I will continue to ask until my question is answered satisfactorily. (Thus far, the silence has been deafening) WHERE has EA published this information WITHIN THEIR GAME so that the average but diligent player may read it?

For the free tokens, it is bad enough that they play typically sleazy corporate games. THAT is slimy, but not illegal.

But when I choose to give them real life money and (pay attention here.) WHEN THEY CHOOSE TO ACCEPT MY REAL LIFE MONEY, then, AT THAT MOMENT we have a real life, business CONTRACT. In my REAL LIFE law school Contracts class, i learned it is termed "offer and acceptance".

At that moment, they are LEGALLY bound to not misrepresent what they are SELLING. That is called FRAUD. When a business displays a wheel with EQUALLY SIZED wedges, I am not guaranteed any one of them more (listen up here) OR LESS THAN any of the others.

UNLESS the wheel displays true odds at those times I SPIN IT WITH A PAID FOR TOKEN, then UNDER CONTRACT, I am (here comes the word) ENTITLED to recompense.

I can't believe ANY of you can dare justify this. Wait. Of course I can. This nation has become so weakened by big business influence that we shrug our shoulders and accept it as part of real life. Key word "accept". What cowards we are.

I don't expect to be told the information was published WITHIN THE GAME, which is where the contract exists. But I won't stop asking until one of those in the forum WHO HAS JUSTIFIED THIS admits that the information is NOT in the game.

Annette waits patiently.

Do you have any form of legal background? I'm only asking because I've read briefs by actual lawyers that were a lot less sensical than what you wrote there.

I'm not entirely sure whether you are right, though; it is a game of chance, and the game states that clearly. I'm not sure whether the odds have to be reflected exactly (or at least approximately) in a game of chance, as well.

If one looks further into it, the fact that the game is available in different countries with different systems of law (I believe the UK and Australia have the same system, and the US system is at least derived from the UK one, but the systems of Germany and Italy have developed entirely independently from the Commonwealth system; then again the UK, Germany and Italy are part of the EU which has very strong consumer protection laws) makes that question even more intruiging. It's quite possibly (and not even unlikely) that this kind of gameplay is legal in some countries it's available and illegal in some others. I almost wish I was back in law school, as this game (and your posting) could inspire several theses at once...

Bottom line: You might be right. Then again, you might be wrong. I guess both points could be argued.