Exposing Minecraft's ILLEGAL Server Gambling Operations...

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

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  • @TheMisterEpic
    @TheMisterEpic  Месяц назад +177

    Had to bring out the high school maths for this one! Join my server: og-network.net
    Discord: discord.com/invite/G7zq6NPZnM
    Bedrock Port: 19134

    • @BzBestEver
      @BzBestEver Месяц назад +3

      love you epic :)

    • @Whitefang64ubackup
      @Whitefang64ubackup Месяц назад +1

      The og-network server is amazing. I play the rpg on mobile as WHITEFANG64U and it's awesome. If you need help getting started just ask and I'll help ya out. It's a free too play, loot box free, new player friendly server open for all on bedrock

    • @bubbapie123
      @bubbapie123 Месяц назад +3

      So you saying I should pay more attention in English?

    • @YTYeash
      @YTYeash Месяц назад +2

      Not the nerd stuff😮

    • @istandwithrussia8254
      @istandwithrussia8254 Месяц назад +1

      Cosmic still has a server today they’re most likely doing this even now

  • @JacobTheCroc
    @JacobTheCroc Месяц назад +2588

    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.

    • @ArnavAcharyaTech
      @ArnavAcharyaTech Месяц назад +75

      Good idea!

    • @ThisIsNotADrell
      @ThisIsNotADrell Месяц назад +125

      good thought! who knows how our Microsoft overlords would like that hit to their reputation tho.
      Edit: or is that just Mojang that's incompetent in enforcing such laws?

    • @MiesvanderLippe
      @MiesvanderLippe Месяц назад +77

      And then they kill self-hosting?

    • @NotTheGaslighter
      @NotTheGaslighter Месяц назад +14

      ​@@MiesvanderLippe lmao

    • @Froggables
      @Froggables Месяц назад +21

      Mojang is owned by microsoft though, so they can lawyer up easily plus all liability would be through microsoft

  • @CoderQC
    @CoderQC Месяц назад +1980

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

    • @bioniclemac300
      @bioniclemac300 Месяц назад +59

      even if they did they would some how screw this up and enforce on the wrong people

    • @arisusanchez
      @arisusanchez Месяц назад +6

      someone with a lawsuit...

    • @joshallen128
      @joshallen128 Месяц назад

      Pay 2 win on a never ending game you never win maybe pay 2 advantage​@@bioniclemac300

    • @TheFuri0uswc
      @TheFuri0uswc Месяц назад +21

      Well they used to and entire community through a fit about it. So they layed off there enforcement.

    • @eidifi1204
      @eidifi1204 Месяц назад +7

      Microsoft

  • @soulglitcher
    @soulglitcher Месяц назад +949

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

    • @AkaKatt
      @AkaKatt Месяц назад +24

      @@ezaf5989and what is wrong with that?

    • @user-to7ds6sc3p
      @user-to7ds6sc3p Месяц назад +32

      @@ezaf5989 You are a grown whatever that is to immature to accept peoples choice of pfp. You exposed yourself.

    • @BudIsUncool
      @BudIsUncool Месяц назад +20

      @@ezaf5989 ezaf you tink you're grown by saying this when in reality you're just a baby who can't take someone having an anime pfp, "God forbid they even HAVE a pfp of a female..."

    • @MattressGuy
      @MattressGuy Месяц назад

      @@ezaf5989 woahh you really got them there, nice one

    • @soulglitcher
      @soulglitcher Месяц назад +14

      @@ezaf5989 lil bro thinks hes a well-adjusted member of society

  • @DrKuh
    @DrKuh Месяц назад +564

    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....

    • @TheMisterEpic
      @TheMisterEpic  Месяц назад +104

      Hahahaha me and you both!

    • @nikolaysitnikov796
      @nikolaysitnikov796 Месяц назад +10

      To solve this problem, Mojang could require every loot box result to be announced in public chat. Then, as long as the public chat messages don't lie (easy to check, log on with two accounts, have one account open a vote crate, see if the other account gets an accurate message), you could simply collect a couple days of chat data and run the same analysis with the binomial distribution as seen here.

    • @Theunicorn2012
      @Theunicorn2012 Месяц назад +1

      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 RUclips video, I think I owe someone and apology…

    • @lovepeoplehu9883
      @lovepeoplehu9883 26 дней назад

      Say sorry to your math teacher. :(

    • @noxxyy
      @noxxyy 21 день назад

      @@Theunicorn2012 congratulations, you copied the comment you just replied to, typos and all.

  • @Consiruem
    @Consiruem Месяц назад +182

    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.

    • @isopa2543
      @isopa2543 Месяц назад +4

      what do you mean 1% relative to all the other chances in the chest? Shouldn't the probability of all items in the chest add up to 100, so 1% is just 1%?

    • @mtcrax
      @mtcrax Месяц назад +20

      @@isopa2543For example if you have two rewards in a chest and both have 1% chance, the chance of actually getting one of the rewards is 50%. So the percentage shown is very misleading, because in many cases the total percent is actually not 100, but instead the sum of the chance of all the rewards

    • @Liviller
      @Liviller Месяц назад +2

      I think the guy in the main comment makes a silent assumption of "exactly one item always falls out"
      if we do assume this, then the probabilities of rolling the items simply have to sum up to 100. If they don't, that's a contradiction - not a paradox of any kind
      it is fully possible to have only two rollable items, with 1% probability each. You can roll none (98,01%), roll only item 1 (0,99%), only item 2 (0,99%) or both (0,01%)

    • @isopa2543
      @isopa2543 Месяц назад +1

      @@mtcrax i dont play mc servers so i'm not really familiar, but would they put the chance as 50% instead of 1% in that situation?

    • @JustAGooseman
      @JustAGooseman Месяц назад

      @@isopa2543 Ideally you would add up the chances to equal 100%, but thats not what they do, the chance % listed on items in drops is more like a "weight" in a data set, then actual arithmetic. IE, if you had it equal 100% it would be relatively fair, since you would be guaranteed a decent chance of a good drop if it was .5% within so many keys. But because its just weighting the drop chance, you might have 10 items that can be dropped, and if every single item had a 50% drop chance, that's more akin to each item having like 10%, but to you who might not understand arithmetic; you see 50% and think its a likelihood it drops.
      Its a common method of deceiving gamblers.

  • @HummaHumma14
    @HummaHumma14 Месяц назад +407

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

    • @calebhunter1236
      @calebhunter1236 Месяц назад +6

      Family rules: Dont be mean to each other, My dad: does not compute (hits mom)

    • @El_Negro2003
      @El_Negro2003 Месяц назад +4

      @@calebhunter1236are you okay bro?

    • @Naerl__
      @Naerl__ Месяц назад +2

      Also Minecraft : *nerf piglin & villagers trading

    • @calebhunter1236
      @calebhunter1236 Месяц назад +2

      @@El_Negro2003 Yes I am okay haha sometimes dad drinks his weird juice and hits mom

    • @scottwesner9362
      @scottwesner9362 Месяц назад +1

      Minecraft servers: No means yes :D

  • @l..l_
    @l..l_ Месяц назад +69

    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

    • @KekPafrany
      @KekPafrany Месяц назад

      I think they use the counter-argument against the accusation of lottery/gambling that you (as a MC player) don't get money from lootboxes, you only get digital merchandises (as a "pig in a poke"), so they feel themselves safe from the law. But I don't know how the laws are worded especially in the US.

    • @genio2509
      @genio2509 Месяц назад +4

      ​@@KekPafranyIt doesn't have to be monetary gain, just you pay and you have a chance to win something.
      Although not probably to the FTC, to the EU. As another comment pointed out, Mojang is in Stockholm.

    • @l..l_
      @l..l_ Месяц назад +1

      @@KekPafrany It doesnt matter what you get. Prize is irrelevant. no civilian in the united states are permitted by law to run a lottery. End of story. The person who holds the lottery is the person that commits the crime. in the logic you use "the criminal can blame the victim and get away with it." Adapt that idea to any other crime and watch it's defense crumble. imagine a criminal blaming the victim that they did not want to get robbed. You see how stupid it sounds? Also you cant say it doesnt hold monetary value when its well know there is a minecraft account market that sells accounts with collectibles and perks.

    • @l..l_
      @l..l_ Месяц назад +2

      @@genio2509 Mojang is not affiliated with third party servers as stated in the EULA. You have to go after each individual server owner. However if mojang see's that third party server owners are gettting caught and prosecuted they might want to start stepping up their take downs of servers that does to avoid a pr disaster.

    • @LuluTheCorgi
      @LuluTheCorgi Месяц назад

      Unfortunately lottery is a very specific legal term in this case which these don't fall under
      You need to hit atleast 2 of the 3 features to be illegal

  • @karlmarxii1898
    @karlmarxii1898 Месяц назад +75

    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.

    • @KenithLemley
      @KenithLemley Месяц назад +7

      Its Microsoft, not Mojang sadly

  • @superior_non3665
    @superior_non3665 Месяц назад +599

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

    • @I.disagree
      @I.disagree Месяц назад +30

      Wasn't CosmicPVP always like this?

    • @godlynewbie
      @godlynewbie Месяц назад

      wealth corrupts equally. maybe not every one but far to often it is almost guaranteed to corrupt and when you add a high level of power to some one wealthy it's 1000 percent worse

    • @Greenhawk4
      @Greenhawk4 Месяц назад +40

      at least they are only into the kids' money and not the kids themselves I guess

    • @thedeathknightegris7287
      @thedeathknightegris7287 Месяц назад +5

      ​@I.disagree yeah but it got way worse at first it wasn't that bad but later on it practically became impossible to progress without using crates

    • @idiotically-everything
      @idiotically-everything Месяц назад +25

      ​@@Greenhawk4I hate that is a positive

  • @sla5hh
    @sla5hh Месяц назад +55

    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.

    • @ItsRadeZ
      @ItsRadeZ Месяц назад +10

      and that kids is why you never remotely support p2w servers in any way

    • @vkeibkei
      @vkeibkei Месяц назад

      i used to be really young too

    • @thefoxcar
      @thefoxcar Месяц назад

      If the family was really poor then why did they let your friend buy crates?

  • @Hydrox5333
    @Hydrox5333 Месяц назад +552

    Lets go gambling!

  • @notyoutube8128
    @notyoutube8128 Месяц назад +77

    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

    • @ejhxwlett
      @ejhxwlett Месяц назад

      Mohang doesnt ban players, the staff do.

    • @broreallysad
      @broreallysad Месяц назад +10

      ​@@ejhxwlettguess which staff? Mojang staff

    • @notyoutube8128
      @notyoutube8128 Месяц назад +11

      @@ejhxwlett he been living under a rock during chat reporting lol

    • @Damian-cilr2
      @Damian-cilr2 Месяц назад +6

      @@ejhxwlett 1.19 chat reporting
      You've been living under a rock eh?

    • @ejhxwlett
      @ejhxwlett Месяц назад +1

      @@broreallysad oh i thought he meant in servers, not in like live chat or sumn idk

  • @SquidPartyDude
    @SquidPartyDude Месяц назад +177

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

    • @SaulBadman-wb5kt
      @SaulBadman-wb5kt Месяц назад +6

      Because mojang benefits from it too

    • @Kyznikov
      @Kyznikov Месяц назад +30

      @@SaulBadman-wb5kt how? they set up their own server without mojang's intervention or anything, everything is paid for by them, and all sales go through them. how is mojang benefiting from this?

    • @Pashankie
      @Pashankie Месяц назад +3

      ​@@Kyznikovpublicity and retaining playercounts mainly, banning very large servers increases chances of those players quitting the game entirely, and thus less spread of the game thru word of mouth and the such

    • @LloydTheZephyrian
      @LloydTheZephyrian Месяц назад +9

      @@Pashankie So... No reason. They have nothing to lose. Mojang already makes massive cash from Minecraft, and Minecraft is already a global icon in gaming. If Minecraft were still pretty obscure, sure, but Minecraft's waaay too big for this to really matter all that much. What's a few thousand players when there's at least several dozen more still playing and possibly even paying?

    • @mromg8282
      @mromg8282 Месяц назад +4

      This is no longer P2W - it's just a money sink.

  • @Tytytiger2
    @Tytytiger2 Месяц назад +63

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

    • @justroonhere
      @justroonhere Месяц назад +6

      literally where my head went 😂

    • @bdbyt6835
      @bdbyt6835 Месяц назад +4

      Everyone likes to play minorcraft with fellow miners!

  • @mitthenub6050
    @mitthenub6050 Месяц назад +96

    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.

    • @07uu67
      @07uu67 Месяц назад +1

      Law where? The problem is most countries don't have laws for crates in computer games Mojang isn't doing anything illegal. Morally bad? Yes. Illegal? No.

    • @jacobna2080
      @jacobna2080 Месяц назад

      It’s not really Mojangs fault. The most they can probably get charged with is like, negligence or something

    • @ThePenisMan
      @ThePenisMan Месяц назад

      @@07uu67 EU. Mojang is still based somewhere in the EU

    • @ThePenisMan
      @ThePenisMan Месяц назад

      @@jacobna2080 unlikely. Don’t you remember the adpocalypse youtube got in from COPPA? All because of user-generated content
      If a company hosts user made content, they are responsible for said content
      And that’s just in America, one of the most unregulated markets out there, Mojang is not in america

    • @iuse9646
      @iuse9646 Месяц назад

      Shutup

  • @tedheli
    @tedheli Месяц назад +20

    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.

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      With larger that 100% total odds with all items rates combined that would make the false odds show up as LESS than their real odds, for example if you had 5 items right, the first had a 40% second a 30% >25%>10%>1% equaling a total of 106% across all items, the shown odds of all items would be reduced by 6% in total to drop the show rates back down to a total of 100% chance, it would only show a higher than actual rate if the total odds of all items came out to LESS than 100% example if the first item of the previous set of number was also a 30% chance so it was 30%>30%>25%>10%>1% it would come out to 96% so the plugin would be adding % to the shown odds to raise the total back to 100% you have the right idea but your math is backwards.

  • @samuelhulme8347
    @samuelhulme8347 Месяц назад +12

    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.

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      Mojang is VERY aware of it, thats how they can pop in instantly and black list your server the same day you do something they dont agree with, and they used to ban these kinds of servers within MINUTES of adding any kind of p2w, even ranks would gey a server banned within an hour bc mojang said "no, you cannot give in game advantages for money, at all" but when microsoft took over they decided not to ever enforce rules

  • @HallenIsCool
    @HallenIsCool Месяц назад +31

    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
    @TakenWasTakenYT Месяц назад +84

    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

    • @rowanstree8499
      @rowanstree8499 Месяц назад +17

      Mr Rogers is a W

    • @TakenWasTakenYT
      @TakenWasTakenYT Месяц назад

      @@rowanstree8499 fr

    • @synexiasaturnds727yearsago7
      @synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 Месяц назад +7

      If he is watching Preston, he better be watching the pre-2018 content

    • @TakenWasTakenYT
      @TakenWasTakenYT Месяц назад

      @@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 he aint

    • @winterphuntasm
      @winterphuntasm Месяц назад +2

      I know most of these RUclipsrs no longer upload videos like they used to so please show PopularMMOs and Stampylonghead to your brother, they're the best RUclipsrs I have grown up watching.

  • @MrBelles104
    @MrBelles104 Месяц назад +3

    At least OG Network doesn't have any rigged gambling, I appreciate the ethical monetization.

  • @BzBestEver
    @BzBestEver Месяц назад +94

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

  • @galwaygirl6997
    @galwaygirl6997 Месяц назад +9

    "Babe, wake up TheMisterEpic posted."

  • @bigbigx2250
    @bigbigx2250 Месяц назад +3

    For statistical analysis of binomial probabilities we don't use the probability of X=x we use X

  • @ukraineball953
    @ukraineball953 Месяц назад +6

    Even without rigged odds, it would still be illegal in some counties.

  • @devinwest4374
    @devinwest4374 Месяц назад +1

    I played Cosmic servers when I was younger and it never hit me until this video that all these gambling mechanics were just accepted and part of the server culture. I actually bought a crate once and remember getting nothing good, unlike the crazy rolls that would be showcased in videos. Glad this is coming to light!

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      Showcased by preston and woffless more often than not aswell, so they prolly got special crates with increased odds bc they owned the server

  • @necronticgaming6186
    @necronticgaming6186 Месяц назад +74

    0:11 cosmic pvp is no longer online( the client no longer works.)

    • @HeliumDreemurr
      @HeliumDreemurr Месяц назад +1

      Nice

    • @dvanz7002
      @dvanz7002 Месяц назад +5

      Cosmic pvp has been down for a while they reopend cosmic sky tho, the client hasn’t been working for over a year aswell so old news there pall

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      ​@@dvanz7002i give it 6 months before cosmic sky gets blacklisted, at this point all of their bullshit is out in the open and people are just spam reporting any server they so much as touch in an admin or server moderating capacity.

  • @Jominer08
    @Jominer08 Месяц назад +5

    TheMisterEpic is actually on the way to 1M subs lesgo

  • @thomaspolder7413
    @thomaspolder7413 Месяц назад +10

    the illegal gambling server operations have been exposed

  • @EandCheckmark
    @EandCheckmark Месяц назад +7

    Just a small note-the calculation at 5:47, although technically correct, is misleading. The value should be calculated by taking the probability of getting 2 *or lower,* not exactly 2; otherwise, the value will turn out to be very low and is not that useful in this context. For reference, the probability of a more expected value, 18, is still less than 10% (which, although not statistically significant, is straddling the line a bit). Although the probability still turns out to be absurdly low when the calculation is performed correctly, it is important to address when something is done incorrectly or in a way that is misleading.

    • @GHXXX
      @GHXXX Месяц назад +3

      Indeed, to add the actual probability answers to this, P(success=0)=2.403e-8; P(s=1)=4.227e-7; P(s=2)=3.716e-6. As the outcomes are mutually exclusive we can simply add them up. Therefore P(

  • @yournerdking218
    @yournerdking218 13 дней назад +1

    Ya know if these servers are in the US you can report them on the FCC website
    They are one of those government departments that actually get stuff done if they are informed of a problem

  • @usernamepleasehere
    @usernamepleasehere Месяц назад +3

    We need way more anti gambling laws. Idc if it's lootboxes in games like Apex Legends or weird gambling on Minecraft servers. It's a horrible mechanic and is easily accessible for kids and teenagers. And even young adults are tempted to waste their money on basically nothing.

  • @starkqx
    @starkqx Месяц назад +1

    Once again, great video on cosmic!
    While Cosmic PvP and Cosmic Prisons have shut down, Cosmic Sky has actually relaunched not too long ago and still has slot bot tickets. I played for a bit at launch, but never looked into the slots so I don't know if they are the same or not. I do know that lootboxes are still a thing as my friend bought 3 and to be expected, he got some of the worst items possible.

    • @notsalty
      @notsalty Месяц назад

      😂😂😂

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      Somebody just needs to take one for the team and dedicate their life to DDOSing any and every server preston or woofless ever try and make... they need to be permenantly blacklisted from owning, operating, or moderating any server

  • @matthewbrunello6329
    @matthewbrunello6329 Месяц назад +1

    My boy Preston has fallen from grace, growing up he was one of my favourite creators. The moment it clicked in my head that he was running out of content was when he dropped the video “This is not click bait” it was a parkour vid from memory

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      He never had grace im so sorry... him and woofless have been doing and getting away with stuff like this for almost as lomg as they have had youtube accounts

    • @matthewbrunello6329
      @matthewbrunello6329 10 дней назад

      @ I had been falling for the clickbait like a stupid gullible kid and then I learned what clickbait was and my view changed

  • @Opianisal
    @Opianisal Месяц назад +4

    I was once playing on a server with a crate that had 1% for an Elite rank (best rank in the server) and everytime the season ends on one of the gamemodes they give everyone creative. So I duped some keys (three double chests) and opened them. I DID NOT GET THIS RANK, but I knew that it was still there because someone got it.

    • @milomorningstar
      @milomorningstar Месяц назад +2

      So if the actual probability is lower than 1/5184 (exactly 3 double chests), then it's less than 0.019%... At least 50 times rarer than advertised (and that's considering you ran out and there's no definitive number for the win so it's definitely even lower), that definitely goes way beyond just plain bad luck

  • @JustaGeminiGod
    @JustaGeminiGod Месяц назад +3

    Theres a plugin called ecocrates that is popular advertises the ability to rig crates odds with display chances and actual chances

  • @RenanMsV_YT
    @RenanMsV_YT Месяц назад +2

    Its listed as categories. So lets say the most op items are in a category of probability 0.5%. You would get one item from it, but the item also random with an unknown percentage. The only certainty is that you got an item from that category. If you sumup all the crate items percentages the result will go way past 100.

  • @nothingbut4893
    @nothingbut4893 Месяц назад +13

    2:25 bro that player with the red skin's unsername

  • @henke37
    @henke37 Месяц назад +4

    It's not "rich or stupid", it is "rich and stupid".

  • @CrispyChickenStories
    @CrispyChickenStories Месяц назад +2

    One of the first (yay) Good work discovering this! We need more people like you.

  • @novamorph
    @novamorph Месяц назад +1

    loot boxes, crates, even the little 2$ toys should be flat out illegal everywhere. I work retail and can't tell you how many times ive seen cheap "mystery item" toys get opened and tossed aside, not even stolen just looking for the one they want. If its in a small plastic bag i stop and help them feel to get the ones they want, its gambling for kids. Its disgusting and i genuinely hate selling them.

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      Those $2 toys are not even remotely in the same boat... ik what ur talking about but those are imo the exact same as having a gumball machine with little toys in it, and the odds of getting them all are fairly equal, trust me, my sister collects hundreds of those as a hobby, it rarely takes her more than a $50 to get every single figure they can contain. Thats just a creative way of adding some rarity to them so they have a singular ounce of collector value. Granted there are a couple brands of them that ARE that bad and need to be put out of buisness but the vast majority are equal odds with maybe 1 rarer figure that has 50% as many made as the rest of the figures in that series but still not that rare that its gonna cost you more than $10 and a couple minutes of opening wrappers to get them. You also really cant complain about this and not bring up trading card games like pokemon which are the ACTUAL gambling toy thats ruining children.

  • @olivergro7105
    @olivergro7105 Месяц назад +2

    Just straight up ban lootboxes and enforce bans where there are lootboxes. Make items have value because you need to grind for them or give them special quirks and put them solo in a shop. For example, im absolutely happy to pay 5€ for a name change thats special for me.

  • @Irrenia
    @Irrenia Месяц назад +2

    Loot boxes are actually dependent on the country, since in my game design class we had to decided if it was or not

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      If your game is purchasable in a country, the developers have to follow that countries laws, so pf all the countries the game is playble in they have to follow the laws of ALL of those countries at the same time, thats why so few games made outside of china ever get released there, bc their laws are really hard to follow if you arent a chinese game developer whos been dealing with their video game laws for years already

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      While countries where its allowed wont have issue with it, the developers can and will still be getting in trouble for breaking the law in countries that dont allow it

  • @Theaveragejoe98
    @Theaveragejoe98 Месяц назад +2

    4am and a mister epic video is out. No sleep tonight...

  • @ohitshammy
    @ohitshammy Месяц назад +9

    i love the implication that Minecraft care about their own Usage Guidelines. I tried asking about Minecraft’s brand partnership with the NZ National Political Party, to which I was told to put a feature request, and then got banned from the feature/bug request form for being political…

    • @darkdest6664
      @darkdest6664 Месяц назад +1

      "if your political views dont match the hivemind, youre banned" 😅 what? actually insane behavior. Im slowly starting to despise my childrens blocc game. Also questioning why and who they team up with is a good thing bec too many companies wont actually look into groups or ideas before just accepting money. Thats why many youtubers still shill betterhelp even though its a MASSIVE scam

  • @arasuka6889
    @arasuka6889 Месяц назад

    The mister epic slowly becoming a Minecraft journalist

  • @derp4581
    @derp4581 Месяц назад +17

    Slight nitpick but at 5:47, you'd want to calculate the probability of getting 2 *or less*, which comes out to about 0.0004162%

    • @TheMisterEpic
      @TheMisterEpic  Месяц назад +8

      I did do that as well, but there wasn't any online calculator to display it for the video, so I just did the probability of exactly 2 as the odds are almost identical anyways

    • @schwingedeshaehers
      @schwingedeshaehers Месяц назад +8

      i think would have been good to mention that inside the video ​@@TheMisterEpic

    • @Crow-sw8vk
      @Crow-sw8vk Месяц назад

      Was just going to comment this

    • @Waller6485
      @Waller6485 Месяц назад

      Dcdv​@@schwingedeshaehers

  • @GonzoStudioz
    @GonzoStudioz Месяц назад +4

    ORIGIN REALMS MENTIONED

  • @Veltrosstho
    @Veltrosstho Месяц назад

    Good to see the Habbo Hotel scam rooms are alive and well.

  • @Vegalith
    @Vegalith Месяц назад

    Crazy how ubiquitous deceptive and scammy behavior is across basically every online community and platform.

  • @supremevillager11
    @supremevillager11 Месяц назад

    bro the last time i watched one of ur vids was when u were at 200k subs keep up the good work

  • @jeffbridges2191
    @jeffbridges2191 20 дней назад

    6:00 Not sure if anyone else pointed it out but you shouldn't just look at the probability of exactly 2 positive results, you should consider the probability of 2 results or fewer, since any one single outcome is relatively unlikely, That being said, in this case it doesn't really affect the probability too much as the odds of receiving 2, 1 or 0 drops only brings the total up to 0.00042%, up from 0.00037%

  • @seabassattack
    @seabassattack Месяц назад

    Can't wait until this man discovers mine but servers...

  • @sorbetsorbet
    @sorbetsorbet Месяц назад

    I would also like to point out some points about the psychology of the main age demographic (12-18 year olds). Many psychological studies have demonstrated that teenagers are risk averse. Teenagers are more likely to participate in risk based activities simply BECAUSE there is risk, and even more so when the ODDS of an outcome ARE UNCLEAR. In other words, teenagers seek ambiguity in their decision making to learn about the world more. Not only this, but in the brain the "reward" pathway develops much faster than the decision making and assessment regions (the prefrontal cortex) which doesn't finish developing until the age of 25. Furthermore, the effects of your peers are large. Some studies found the attitude of your peers is one of the major reasons teenagers participate in risk behaviour. The people on these servers likely look up to the youtubers running them, or could even have parasocial relationships with them, another factor potentially encouraging participation in the gambling side of a server.
    When you factor this in with gambling in video games being widely accessible in so many different game types, and also addictive, the effects are quite widespread. These servers are not only taking advantage of people who don't have the time/resources/knowledge to complete the data analysis themselves, but are also capitalising on the fact their main demographic is developmentally not at the level to make proper decisions.
    Although most people understand marketing gambling to under 18 yr olds is bad, I think it's equally important to know more about WHY it's so bad. The morals of these people become more questionable when you really consider the developmental stages of the main demographic.
    SOURCES:
    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28098227/
    www.researchgate.net/publication/254081726_Who_Takes_Risks_When_and_Why_Determinants_of_Risk_Taking
    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25089362/
    www.researchgate.net/publication/369324684_Effects_of_peer_observation_on_risky_decision-making_in_adolescence_A_meta-analytic_review
    Just as a disclaimer, the information as i displayed in my comment are taken mainly from a university lecture, the sources listed were listed within the lecture itself.

  • @cpxcth
    @cpxcth Месяц назад

    you know you're fucked when TheMisterEpic joins your server

  • @Zilkenian_Davenport
    @Zilkenian_Davenport 28 дней назад

    Server: Gambling.
    MisterEpic: So I decided to go Casey Jones on this serer....

  • @HivelordTempura
    @HivelordTempura Месяц назад +1

    I got an online casino ad before this 😂

  • @ButterFromDiscord
    @ButterFromDiscord Месяц назад +1

    Someone’s gotta make real life loot boxes and crates so they can be considered a real type of gambling and all these servers have to stop

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад +1

      Google monthly boxes for me rq and get back to me. Its already a multibillion dollar industry that sells you cheaply made garbage you wouldnt normally buy buy bc you dont know what ur getting until it gets there 🤷‍♂️

  • @BurnPlayzMC
    @BurnPlayzMC Месяц назад +5

    hey 8:45 that’s me

  • @Dom_Maretti
    @Dom_Maretti Месяц назад

    The legal definition of gambling in most jurisdictions requires that the prizes you can win must have a real-world monetary value. Some places are changing this, but it's slow going.

  • @Meemo4269
    @Meemo4269 Месяц назад +2

    I don't want to defend anyone, but the written "winning chance" may indeed be correct but the crates plugin itself has the wrong working chances. I have tried a few of these, especially free ones, and even though I had a few items with 1% or 10% chance written on them, I was getting everything exactly the same, as if there was no winning chance at all...

  • @BocchiSensei
    @BocchiSensei Месяц назад +2

    While its disguisting to see server owners like Preston exploit young children. I have to question the fact that parents of said children are doing nothing in all of this, its almost safe to say that they deserve to get scammed due to negligence and ignorance. They seem to just not care and they keep giving money to their children without supervision.

    • @07uu67
      @07uu67 Месяц назад

      I totally agree. We can't have age verification on everything just because parents don't care about their children. So now are we going to ban all gacha games because parents can't look what their child spends money on? I even saw teens (age 14-16) playing online casinos even when you need to verify with your ID. And who's fault is that that these kids are playing illegally? Casino's? Because they didn't do enough to protect these kids? Is it a fault of 18+ site that kid is accessing their site?
      Crates shouldn't be there on Minecraft servers, but still, it's not only responsibility of server owner or Mojang to look after not their kids.

  • @thadabmasta
    @thadabmasta Месяц назад

    Keep doing your thing, Epic.
    This whole thing will come to a front eventually... hopefully.

  • @TheDragon4775
    @TheDragon4775 Месяц назад +2

    I hate how most servers have become a cash grab.

  • @dnzb9868
    @dnzb9868 Месяц назад

    I feel sorry for you buddy, always having to do math, love the videos, keep on counting for us

  • @AlmonMalk
    @AlmonMalk Месяц назад +2

    Oh damn I’m never this early. Popcorn is going in the microwave

  • @geckogamer1413
    @geckogamer1413 Месяц назад

    something i think would be interesting to investigate is modded servers like pixelmon and other massive mods that have servers. a unchecked corner of minecraft servers

  • @dany_fg
    @dany_fg Месяц назад +2

    as a programmer who has worked with randomness before I can definitely say that the odds on cosmic are rigged.
    as true randomness would not even be close to what is shown.
    the only way is to boost or reduce certain results.
    for example you can generate a number between 1 and 10 and then generate a coin flip for every number that is not 10.
    that would mean that every number except 10 will have a 1/20 chance of winning vs 1/10 for the number 10.
    this would show as every number except 10 having a result that is closer to 1/20 than 1/10.

  • @MoriRemember
    @MoriRemember Месяц назад

    Bro I swear to you, I thought that was James Charles on the thumbnail.

  • @Green0Destroyer
    @Green0Destroyer Месяц назад +1

    They are always gonna do this, thank you for doing mojangs job

  • @k2cr
    @k2cr Месяц назад +3

    You need to start saying Microsoft instead of Mojang in these videos.
    If Microsoft starts getting bad rep, then the hammer will actually come down, but right now you're giving them a shield - Mojang. It is Microsoft enabling and encouraging child gambling because it's convienent for them, or it would be inconvienent to actually moderate these servers. Microsoft have the sort of sway where they could outright have paypal block minecraft stores selling keys, as they already do for unbans.

  • @TrueDarkLord
    @TrueDarkLord Месяц назад

    5:20 To be fair to them, this might not have even been their issue at all. Chance and probability are a very difficult thing to calculate.
    When opening crates, you have to get closer to millions of crates to see the actual distribution... More information on this later...

  • @BtheBest14
    @BtheBest14 Месяц назад +1

    You're my favorite minecraft youtuber

  • @enderianthesecond
    @enderianthesecond Месяц назад

    we need to make a petition so mojang ACTUALLY enforces their eula

  • @Alex_192.
    @Alex_192. Месяц назад

    The prisons thing could be fixed SO EASILY by just selecting a random number between 1 and 250 and that number is the winning entry number.

  • @Lxs1-ez7bx
    @Lxs1-ez7bx Месяц назад

    This is pretty clever advertising

  • @lightning_11
    @lightning_11 Месяц назад +2

    Some of your math is a tiny bit skewed. For example, you should have calculated the probability of getting 2 crate keys with 3,500 _or less_ loot boxes. That said, the difference here is pretty microscopic, so this wouldn't have affected your main point. I suppose you probably wanted to keep things simpler for the RUclips audience, too, so you're probably more right than me...

  • @jaidenmacon9675
    @jaidenmacon9675 Месяц назад

    We need to interview FINNSTER. He was featured so much on the server. He should know SOMETHING about it's gambling

    • @Ksheaisfunny
      @Ksheaisfunny Месяц назад

      Yeah and he was Stampys helper once in a video called naughty helpers

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      Cosmic gave "influencers" crates with higher rates... why do you think they ALWAYS got something good? It was intentionally set up to make people go "wow he got a president rank from that? Thats crazy ive gotta go and spend my moms retirement on crates so i can get one" 😒

    • @surr3ald3sign
      @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

      Not to mention F1NN doesnt need that kind of harrassment over a server that doestn exist anymore giving them promotional crates to advertise them, that was before the days where you had to disclose when you had been paid to say or do something for marketing

  • @stfv_6721
    @stfv_6721 Месяц назад

    Minecadia does this too will put items you genuinely can’t win in their Lootboxes or their “hype boxes”

  • @admiralkaede
    @admiralkaede Месяц назад +1

    big servers can host hundreds if not thousands per month for a bunch of servers that can hold a lot of players each monitization may suck but they give people the ability to play on them for free a way to otherwise how would the servers be around without the money to sustain the costs

    • @admiralkaede
      @admiralkaede Месяц назад +1

      while yes u can host your own servers too that would cost a lot of money up front plus maintance and electristity and a whole rack of servers can use a decent amount of power

  • @MoistToucan
    @MoistToucan Месяц назад +1

    Mojang should contract you to dupe keys and run a drop rate check

  • @ridiche
    @ridiche Месяц назад

    Gambling, by many people's definition, including, in many cases, the law, is if you can make real money with it through intended means. The reason most servers aren't allowed is because, despite loot boxes being allowed, pay-to-win isn't, making most loot boxes illegal. Note that Hypixel contains lootboxes, but they're never pay-to-win so Hypixel doesnt break the TOS. (correct me if I'm wrong)

  • @TaxEvasion1452
    @TaxEvasion1452 Месяц назад

    The rules about Requiring to list the drops and drop chances of items is actually a law in the EU

  • @LegendaryNSK
    @LegendaryNSK Месяц назад

    I decided to check it out and CosmicPVP got shut down a day after he uploaded this. I used to play cosmic prisons just because of the gambling systems lol

  • @NikitaRasputin
    @NikitaRasputin Месяц назад

    server with gambling exists
    dude with Python and data analysis knowledge: *im about to end this dude career*

  • @teddykep
    @teddykep Месяц назад +1

    Under ten minutes 2.2k views? Bruh you popped off

  • @ZennMagic
    @ZennMagic 22 дня назад

    If the keys and tickets have to be bought from a website, you could also report them to google and get the sites taken down.

  • @surr3ald3sign
    @surr3ald3sign 10 дней назад

    Love the mod claiming that it was fixed when VERY CLEARLY all they did was slightly increase the rates of the rest of the slots before the last one so that the chart looked slightly more legtimate... the shit preston, woofless and their mod team got away with should honestly have every single one of them facing prison time bc cosmic was really nothing more than a get rich quick scheme carefully planned to exploit minors, not to mention that offering gambling of any kind to a minor is in itself an actual crime.

  • @TheFalseEsquire
    @TheFalseEsquire Месяц назад

    If I had a Minecraft Server and it had gambling. I’d have it only for those who vote and play on the server. If you wanted to buy something specific, it would be *server name*’s luck where you’d get to choose the item that you’d want from the loot table and maybe some older events/seasons would be worked into keeping the server afloat. You aren’t paying to win. It’s paying for drip/cosmetics

  • @unclearverb
    @unclearverb Месяц назад

    I love how he says “no pressure ofc” it makes me wanna make a new account and subscribe again

  • @operator_alpha644
    @operator_alpha644 Месяц назад

    above the "no gambling rule", it says don't do anything illegal. Having minors gamble is illegal as its required to be either 18 or 21 in the whole US.

  • @Kestrel990
    @Kestrel990 Месяц назад

    The odds for the melon smp chests are worse than you think because your data is influenced by stopping bias. It is actually much worse than you calculated

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 Месяц назад

    I got an ad for online gambling with this video

  • @balsis_ch6217
    @balsis_ch6217 Месяц назад

    Mojang is too busy fixing real problems like banning people in public chats to care about this

  • @mudalad1215
    @mudalad1215 Месяц назад

    finally my ap statistics skills being put to use

  • @AceSevenFive
    @AceSevenFive Месяц назад

    I'm surprised that servers haven't started using gacha-style pity systems. Gacha pity has its own problems, but it's at least slightly less exploitative than common crate systems on servers.

  • @LocalDiscordCatgirl
    @LocalDiscordCatgirl Месяц назад

    Mojang in a nutshell…
    Server runs a literal casino: I sleep
    Server run a mod with guns: YOU STOP THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW

  • @TKDragon75
    @TKDragon75 Месяц назад

    I think loot boxes are fine if all the ways the earn the stuff to open them is through in game achievment. Where I think it draws the line at, is when you can use real money to buy packages and in game moneys.

  • @DBL65-02S
    @DBL65-02S Месяц назад

    This is the first time I’ve seen a useful use of a binomial distribution 💀

  • @Portato19
    @Portato19 Месяц назад

    Gambling is the heinous and huge problem in my country, it's bigger than the gun problem. Creating a gambling system is the same energy as make a habit of gambling irl. Not only do the kids become victim, but the parents are also victims too.