WWE Champions General - Despite his claims, DSP is still spending thousands of dollars on the WWE Champions mobile game

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On the topic of "Why won't Phil admit it's his account", and another reason knowing about this is so hilarious to me, is that it completely wrecks what little credibility as a "game reviewer" he has left. Like you're about to tell me that this new game sucks as the man who dropped (or will drop, rather) upwards of $100k on a fucking phone app? For fuck's sake, even my mother figured out how to play Candy Crush without playing a cent by tampering with her iPad's clock every time she ran out of lives. And you're going to tell me that gacha is seriously worth the cash. Imagine trying to start some Twitter slapfight if your gambling addiction was common knowledge. As always Phil wants the best of both worlds, feeling like a bigshot gaming influence as well as overflowing his brain with dopamine via flashing lights and mind-numbing gameplay.
 
He would be an even bigger laughing stock to the people he berates on twitter if they found out he loves playing gay bejeweled.
 
Mr. Brown said:
There is something weird going on in culture and before I carry on, Phil is NOT a victim...

I play online poker, I've seen poker sites and apps come and go. But there is one app that is making more money than any other app called WSOP.

PEOPLE PAY MONEY TO GAMBLE WITH FAKE CURRENCY. What the fuck is this about?... You're paying money to gamble with no possible way of getting money out of the system if you win rather than do the exact same game and actions in a real poker app and get paid if you win.

It's insane. I do not understand it at all.

Does it not feel like real gambling because it's fake coins? it's very interesting and one of the most autistic things about people in current year.
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That's interesting. It makes a kind of sense if you think about it though. They are paying for the experience of gambling and the highs of winning without the lows of actually going bust and losing all their money. The money is already gone so "losing" only means you can't play anymore until you pay more money, but "winning" still feels like winning because you get more playtime.

I would guess it draws in a lot of people who can pretend they aren't "gambling" and are just paying to play a game. Maybe also genuine gambling addicts trying to get through the lows of a recent loss by getting a 'risk-free' fix.
 
Mr. Brown said:
There is something weird going on in culture and before I carry on, Phil is NOT a victim...

I play online poker, I've seen poker sites and apps come and go. But there is one app that is making more money than any other app called WSOP.

PEOPLE PAY MONEY TO GAMBLE WITH FAKE CURRENCY. What the fuck is this about?... You're paying money to gamble with no possible way of getting money out of the system if you win rather than do the exact same game and actions in a real poker app and get paid if you win.

It's insane. I do not understand it at all.

Does it not feel like real gambling because it's fake coins? it's very interesting and one of the most autistic things about people in current year.
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I play a blackjack game that uses fake chips that you can buy with real money, but you can also watch ads and get free chips to play with. I only play it on the toilet so the free chips I get for watching a 30 second ad are more than enough for me. I'm guessing that poker app has something similar where you can get free currency to play with.
 
Here is da battom line dood, my autistic thought for the day - Does it even fucking mean anything if Phil admits he plays the game?

If the extraordinary circumstances arises that makes it beneficial (financially) to make a crocodile tear coming clean segment then we know that compulsive liar Phil would happily lie and say the account was his even if it wasn't. His word means nothing. His very predictable behavior has already told us the truth. The only "smoking gun" left is his mail or WWE Champions account being hacked and mining info from there.

But we already know it is him, we just don't know how deep in the hole he is in.
 
As far as WE are concerned, no, it wouldn't change anything. We indeed already know it is him, and it has been pretty clear for quite awhile now. I don't see any revelations for us that would put a whole new perspective on this saga being possible.

But would things change for Phil? THAT is the question, and I find it fascinating, and amusing, that he doesn't want to find out. Especially since this is the one time in his life where he hasn't been eager to flip a coin, confident of how it will land. It's the one thing he actually thinks twice about doing.
 
Prince Lotor said:
That's interesting. It makes a kind of sense if you think about it though. They are paying for the experience of gambling and the highs of winning without the lows of actually going bust and losing all their money.
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IANAL but I suspect it also gets them past any gambling laws, since there is no cash payout.

Gambling is heavily regulated. If I were a small company getting off the ground, I'd do anything short of selling my parents' graves to stay out of a regulated domain.
 
Schmeckel said:
DownFromTheRafters is a direct wrestling reference to when Sting thought he was The Crow and would come, you guessed it, down from the rafters to swing a bat at the NWO. It was one of those things that even casual wrasslin fans would know since it was one of the hottest angles at the time, and you couldn't not see it on WCW broadcasts.
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It also happened when Phil was 13 or 14, which was the peak age for wrestling geek fandom before most people start getting into other things), which would explain why he picked something from that era.

TheGoutburglar said:
As for feeling ashamed of his addiction, I doubt that as well. This is the same guy who yelled at someone in his chat for drawing attention to themselves by talking about a deceased loved one. Phil is not capable of being ashamed of anything
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Phil's definitely not ashamed of it. He just believes if the truth comes out it kills his poverty gimmick. I will say, though (and this is not defending Phil), that I doubt he has any idea how much he spends. Most addicts don't. I just watched a "detractor video" where it was shown that in a WWE Champions event a few days ago, DownFromTheRafters spent close to $1000 THAT DAY based on how far and fast he moved up the rankings in the event. And this was while he was telling us he was broke from "chargebacks". So, while it makes him a hypocritical asshole grifter, I bet Phil thinks he spent a fraction of what he really spends. That's how gambling addicts tell themselves it's "not that bad".
 
Phil definitely doesn't know, or, at least, doesn't believe the figure us detractors have come up with. Which will only partly be from it chapping his ass that we're so keen on figuring it out. The rest of it is simply him being stupid and not knowing how stupid he is. He is, after all, not one of the people who realized the extent of his waste and quit doing it. In fact, there is no evidence that Phil has done that with any of the things he has wasted money on, which are quite numerous. His collectable hobby, for example, got dropped because he was stupid about it, not because he saw the light.

Which is why I'm sure that even if Phil accepted that he has spent $100k playing mobile games, he would just keep doing it. He didn't work his way up to the upper section of the leaderboards for an investment, after all. He did it for clout and to forget that he's DSP. He'll never be psychologically impacted by a realization of what it cost him, he lacks the understanding of the value of a dollar, as well as any ambitions that he missed out on. I mean what else would he do with $100k? Waste it on something else that he won't care about in six months, that's what.
 
I can't find anything in the app that lets you see how much a player has spent on their account.

This is not surprising, Would Scopely really want to have a way for a mega whale to see how much they have spent?
 
BT9494 said:
I can't find anything in the app that lets you see how much a player has spent on their account.

This is not surprising, Would Scopely really want to have a way for a mega whale to see how much they have spent?
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No, because as we've seen, marks like Phil are extremely rare. He's like a diamond the size of a watermelon, it takes very, very specific conditions that are mathematically possible but extraordinarily improbable to produce someone with the kinds of traits he possesses. I mean anyone who spends a couple grand here is an idiot, but Phil's the guy who could KNOW for a fact that he has gone way past that and shrug it off. Not enough people like him to support such a predatory game if they were to be so transparent.
 
BT9494 said:
I can't find anything in the app that lets you see how much a player has spent on their account.

This is not surprising, Would Scopely really want to have a way for a mega whale to see how much they have spent?
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Oh yeah, I don't think it would be displayed openly, but they seem to use it for various internal calculations. There's apparently a feature where they'll try to reel lapsed players with high "LTV" (lifetime value) back in with subscription offers, for example. I guarantee you Phil's never seen that.
 
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