My guess is that if they bought him the platinum, they can afford giving him a nice house & clothes, too, to the point that giving him clothes would be pointless because they can afford to buy him new things all year round.Originally Posted by Ixyris
Real world gambling would be wrong (although, I think the parents would be doing a good job if their kid could count cards effectively & know odds of hitting for every given situation...); however, this isn't real world gambling. In gambling, you are able to make back real, tangible things--like actual money. In this...you can't. It's just a bunch of pixels. Sts could pull the plug on the game any moment they wanted to and wouldn't owe a single person a dime. Again, the gift wasn't even gambling. It was platinum. His parents gave sts money and sts gave them an item (for the lack of a better word)--platinum. His parents bought him a gift that he wanted. What he did with it was then up to him. He could've gotten elixirs. He could've gotten mythic pets. He could've turned it to gold. He chose to use it to chance opening lockeds. It's not much different if he used the platinum to get gold, got new gear with that gold & lots of potions, and then farmed elites until he was out of potions, all the while he didn't get a single good drop.
Bad parenting? HELL NO!
At least his parents listened to his wants and got him it, rather than going, "you're a dumb kid. We aren't getting you that. We're getting you something that we want to get you! Like gift cards to places you barely even go to! That's a good present, you lousy kid, who doesn't even know what to like & want!" (see, that's bad parenting)
Really, giving him platinum is supporting him gambling?
By that logic, any time a parent gives their child some money, they are supporting them gambling because the child now has the means to gamble/make bets with classmates.
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