This should stop my gambling habits, haha.

Thank you! lol

can we put option on what we want to block coz i mean i like the MR lottery and some casino games and dont like the other gambling thing
 

Yeah I agree with LittleDoll, it'd be nice if we could choose what we block. I'd rather not block everything, just the dice.

I absolutely love the idea!

Although I agree with the above two comments, I would rather just block Dice and a few games from the casino for the 24 hours+ and be allowed to buy lottery tickets and play poker.

I agree if i were to block myself, i'd only wanna block Dice.  Dice is tha devil but I"m addicted to it.

This feature is built for those who do not have the self control to walk away from gambling.  Once you press the button, the pressure is off and you know you cant play any more.  If you could simply remove the ban, then it sort of defeats the entire purpose of giving someone who lacks the self control the ability to block themselves effectively.  The entire process works because once you click it... its done.  There is no going back.

Money could be taken out of the game by thoses that do not have the self control. $500k - $1 Million or even 1 Credit to remove 24 hours of their own ban.

Sometimes circumstances of peoples self bans can change, They could come into some extra money they wish to gamble with, Get drunk, Or even in Cristiano's case get stupidererer.

Having a cost for removing a ban, altho might not be the most practical or most uses feature, I can imagine some would actually do it, And where is the harm in removing more Dollar/credits from the game... Its whats needed? Amirite?

So, rather than gamble your money and have a chance at losing it, we solve it by making it a guaranteed loss of money? Seems counter-intuitive based on the reasoning for establishing the blocking in the first place.

I would suggest, however, that perhaps allowing Crewleaders to reset their members' blocks would solve this dilemma of not only extending bans too long, but extending them across characters. If crewleaders can reduce or reset the block, it accomplishes a few things:

1. Blocking is voluntary, so there isn't any inherent requirement for the Crewleader to authorize gambling. Players can gamble, but if they choose to block it they either have to wait or convince their boss that they have money to gamble with.
2. Crewleaders can see tax revenue, and that means if someone isn't paying their taxes they won't reset their block (because they should be earning money for the crew to pay their protection taxes, not gambling it away).
3. This empowers crewleaders to maintain a legitimate role as a figurehead in their crew.
4. Past concerns about CLs prohibiting features isn't even a problem here, as the CL would only have the ability to allow feature use IF use of that feature had been voluntarily blocked by the crew member.

Just a thought.

I'm pretty sure this change has been made to prevent potential problem gamblers losing lots of real money through credit purchases and subsequent losses.

The option to block yourself from gambling on online sites is now a legal requirement for bookmakers to offer (at least it is in the UK), so I would guess this decision stems from that reasoning rather than an actual game play perspective.

Unfortunately, it seems that this blocking feature has killed the lottery...