Reddit put together a list of over 50 countries with gambling laws that appear to be restricting the gambling features of GTA Online, some with conflicting reports. Big markets like the United. Man I am tired of GTA online. They make is ridiculously hard for any normal person to make money. The whole game is designed to get you to buy cash cards. Then I find out everyones been exploiting millions of easy cash from the casino and aren't getting banned. I'm done with this game.
first published on July 25, 2019 by Funker
GTA Online’s newest DLC, Diamond Casino, has already been banned in 54 countries, with more likely to follow suit on the premise that the update constitutes online gambling.
Many users across the globe are able to download and access the Diamond Casino and Resort, but are blocked from purchasing betting chips and other gambling-related features.
Although the chips are technically “fake money,” they are purchased with real currency transactions. The update comes at a time when legal discussions across the world are trying to define and regulate whether purchasing ‘loot crates‘ and other purchasable chance features is considered gambling.
If anything is going to be the tipping point in all-out banning or much stricter regulations concerning micro transactions, it’s likely to be this GTA Online update.
Many users have reported that they are able to simply bypass the restrictions through VPNs, however, they subject themselves to their nation’s gambling laws that the blocks were there to protect them from.
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That’s a pretty quick decision. The new Casino DLC in “GTA Online” (TU 1.47 Patch 1.31) has barely appeared, as the extension has been blocked in many countries for illegal gambling.
Only yesterday there were several reports that the DLC could be interpreted as gambling. The background is that players can invest real money to play in typical casino games. The problem is that on the one hand, you can not regain real money, but maximum in-game content receives, and on the other never knows the exact equivalent value for its use. A typical gambling scenario.
Gta V Online Casino Banned Countries List
Now first countries (via Reddit) have blocked the DLC, which is still somehow visible in GTA Online, but can not interact with it anymore. The affected countries are listed below for you. Depending on how this issue develops it may be that more countries are added, we will update the list as soon as we have more information.
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Gta V Online Casino Banned Countries 2019
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Argentina
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Belarus
- Cambodia – gambling is illegal for natives, but land-based gambling is legal for foreign visitors
- Cayman Islands – land-based gambling is illegal, and online local casinos are banned, whereas foreign slots are not
- China
- Cuba
- Cyprus – online sports betting ok with a license
- Czech Republic – majority of online gambling is illegal (except online lottery and online sports betting)
- Greece – some online gambling is illegal
- Iceland – online casino gambling and online poker illegal – offline gambling is legal
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Luxembourg – illegal online other than sports betting and online lottery
- Maldives
- Mali – only legal for foreign visitors
- Mauritania
- Malta
- Malaysia
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Poland – everything but online sports betting is illegal
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Somalia
- South Africa – online gambling is illegal
- South Korea
- Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Thailand – everything but Horse Racing and the Government Lotto
- Turkey – everything but online sports betting and online lottery is illegal
- Tuvalu
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
- Venezuela
- Hawaii – full gambling ban