Exposing Minecraft's ILLEGAL Server Gambling Operations...

Recently, I've come across evidence that some minecraft servers such as CosmicPvP, had been deliberately rigging the odds of various functions on their server, potentially illegal behaviour...

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0:00 – Intro
0:47 – Gambling And Minecraft
3:05 – Mojang’s Failed Enforcement
4:42 – Melon SMP Data Analysis
7:49 – CosmicPvP’s Shady Slot Machine
12:13 – Illegal Deception
15:01 – Misleading Lootboxes
16:08 – Illegal?

Music Used:
1. First Blood - The Dota 2 Official Soundtrack
2. Scott Buckley - Path Through The Mountains
4. Dylan Owen - Black Fingerprint
5. Scott Buckley - Machina
6. C418 - Ki

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[TheMisterEpic]

Had to bring out the high school maths for this one! Join my server: og-network.net
Bedrock Port: 19132

[JacobTheCroc]

Unironically, you can try reporting that stuff to EU and tell them that Minecraft has servers which has things like these. They can go hard on that stuff and attack mojang as it still is located in Stockholm.

[CoderQC]

I swear, the only way Mojang would enforce their rules is if they were publicly pressured or financially incentivized to.

[soulglitcher]

Using duping to expose rigged loot boxes would be a great addition to the duping videos! Might make a lasting impact to expose them.

[DrKuh]

I remember when i told my math teacher ill never need to know about binomial distribution, and now I'm seeing it in a Minecraft youtube video, I think I owe someone and apology....

[Consiruem]

As a person who has been developing multiplayer RPG servers for more than 12 years, I can say that cases are the very drug that almost all servers who want to earn something really worthwhile from their audience are hooked on.

What MisterEpic showed in the video as an example of MelonPvP deceiving its players may be right and wrong at the same time. This is a psychological trap that administrators use to mislead players who are not good at arithmetic and calculating probabilities.

For example: a player opens a crate and sees many different rewards in it with a probability of 10, 20, 30%. He doesn’t pay attention to this, he is interested in the main reward, which comes out with a 1% chance. In his mind, at ~100 openings of the chest he will receive the coveted reward. However, in reality, the chance of such an item falling out is not an independent 1%, it is 1% relative to all other chances in the chest, which in reality can be a sum of 1, 2, 3 thousand percent.
Accordingly, the chance of such an item falling out is no longer 1%, but 0.01 or even 0.001% percent relative to 100%.

But this is far from the biggest scam. On such servers, aimed at 10-12 year old children, some servers use plugins that can display literally what the admin himself writes in the config in the probability of an item dropping. And this is truly scary, because this is the only source of information for the player, which he cannot verify in any way.

[karlmarxii]

Mojang's extremely lax these days, back in the old days they blacklisted any server that sold any perks at all for real money, even if it wasnt gambling or loot crates. Any real money transaction that gave the player an ingame advantage was forbidden.

[HummaHumma]

Minecraft rules: No Gambling, Minecraft servers: Does not compute

[superior_non]

Shame to see the people we looked up too as kids slowly all becoming corrupt and money hungry.

[slahh]

this is an actual problem though,
One of my online friends used to be really young and begged his family to pay for their crates while there was a "sale" (its there 24/7) and she said she payed 200$~ to cosmicpvp on crates while her family was poor. She's in a better situation now but its kinda sad how that happened.

[l..l_]

In the US it is illegal to operate a lottery, generally defined as a contest in which contestants pay to enter and the prize is awarded at random. The few exceptions include state lotteries and nonprofit organizations' occasional fundraising raffles.

Lootboxes can be considered lotterys. So doesnt matter if the lootbox showcase wrong chance...when the lootbox itself is illegal. Ensure you report all illegal lotterys to the FTC

[mitthenub]

honestly if anybody should be sued and brought to justice, it's mojang for not enforcing the rules which are literally the law itself.. they are basically a black market or child gambling. Gambling shouldn't even considered legal on a game like minecraft whatsoever. Or on any site at all that doesn't have age verifiability.

[notyoutube]

Mojang: bans player for using all caps in chat.
Also Mojang: turn a blind eye on illagel gambling on servers
Their double standard is insane, I am hopping on Reforj as soon as it enters public beta

[SquidPartyDude]

Can’t believe Mojang won’t just ban these P2W servers.

[tedheli]

To add insight to the falsely displayed odds. Many popular crate plugins by design manipulate the percentages that are set in the config file. For a simple example, let's add 2 items to your crate. One with a 20% chance, and the other with a 40% chance. The plugin will even out the odds between the number of the added items so in this case you will see the first item's real percentage is 33% and the second item's chances will be 66%. Now here's the catch. The plugin will still only display the percentages in the GUI that are given in the config. So in this case, it will still display 20% and 40%. In the case of Melon SMP, I believe it might have been that they have had a lot of items, and the 0.5% chance that they've set in their config has been inflated due to the high number of items within the crate, also the odds of those items factor in as well.

To be clear, I'm not defending any servers and yes Cosmic's deceptive practices are undeniable. I just wanted to share this issue regarding the crate plugins as it might not be an "Intentional misleading practice" by many server owners, it's just that the resources (plugins) they have access to might have a subpar design.

[Tytytiger]

0:33 "large playbases of miners" its minecraft, duhh

[samuelhulme]

Have anyone considered sharing this situation with a newspaper? Making these illegal acts publicly known to everyone on the news will make Mojang more aware of it.

[BzBestEver]

Petition to hire TheMisterEpic at mojang. (we need to get rid of these servers and he's the perfect candidate)

[HallenIsCool]

i used to play the server with a bunch of people and one of the guys i was mutuals with was named greavys and he ended up stealing 238m from a Cypto Scam and got arrested. He was one of the most known players on this server too

[TakenWasTakenYT]

My younger brother (7 year old) watches preston playz 💀
I need to get him watching mr rogers, then he wont grow up to be a professional ipad kid