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The BIG Lottery is dead - Long live The BIG Lottery

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BIG Games
BIG
#1 - 2016-11-08 21:12:25 UTC  |  Edited by: BIG Games
NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE


The BIG Lottery is no longer a lottery
- But a free give away for anyone who cares to sign up.

For historical reasons I'll keep the name "The BIG Lottery"
- Although it might be a bit confusing.

There is now a one-time (per round) registration fee of 1000 ISK.

Everyone who registers gets registered once - and once only.

Sending the registration fee makes it possible for me to know
who is interested in some free ISK (via the wallet API).

I will keep giving away free ISK until I run out of ISK.
- At that time The BIG Lottery will seize to exist.


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The word has finally come down from CCP direct that:

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[snip] ... despite being operated completely in game, the BIG Lottery is still regarded as a third party entity that’s operating a gambling service.

With this in mind, unfortunately the big lottery can’t continue to operate under the new changes to EULA, and needs to wind down operations in line with the dev blog announcement regarding the EULA changes


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So it's no longer possible to "gamble" with The BIG Lottery (ie. increasing your chance of winning by spending more ISK on tickets)

Instead you pay a one time (per round) registration fee - to take part in the free giveaways.


Quote:

So long as you’re not gambling, you can give away as much ISK as you like.
Anataine Deva
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2016-11-08 21:18:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Anataine Deva
\o/ wohoo

The first "good" news from CCP since long


But we have to work on that
BIG Games wrote:
I will keep giving away free ISK until I run out of ISK.
- At that time The BIG Lottery will seize to exist.
part!

Give The BIG Lottery a try (it's conform with the EULA) and me your Fedos!
ISD Max Trix
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#3 - 2016-11-09 00:02:13 UTC
EULA wrote:
B. Selling Items and Objects

You may not transfer, sell or auction, or buy or accept any offer to transfer, sell or auction (or offer to do any of the foregoing), any content appearing within the Game environment, including without limitation characters, character attributes, items, currency, and objects, other than via a permitted Character Transfer as described in section 3 above. You may not encourage or induce any other person to participate in such a prohibited transaction. You may not use, transfer or assign any game assets for games of chance operated by third parties. The buying, selling or auctioning (or any attempt at doing so) of characters, character attributes, items, currency, or objects, whether through online auctions, newsgroups, postings on message boards or any other means is prohibited by the EULA and a violation of CCP's proprietary rights in the Game.




Sorry, but a "registration fee" makes this gambling according to our guidelines. If you disagree please file a support ticket and have a GM take a look.

ISD Max Trix

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