He is also a contributor at DriveTribe and has written for CNN, T3, Stuff, Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition, Know Your Mobile, Metro and Custom PC. That’s actually a lie, or at least a gross overestimation, as a property listing has it up for US$188,000,000.A difference of 62 million dollars, pittance you say! Finding who owns Mysterybrand.net has proven difficult, although the one clue is that the website’s terms of service say the company is ‘subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Poland’.Doing some basic calculations and using the since removed probability figures for each major prize, a supercar worth around US$250,000 would, statistically-speaking, appear in a US$12.99 mystery box every 884th opening. Because let’s face it, Jake Paul and RiceGum can’t be that lucky that they win so many high-value items in a row.It certainly seems as if YouTubers are given better odds, perhaps when their account is made. “Open the boxes, get something good,” he says while speaking to his 17 million predominantly young subscribers.As with any form of gambling, the odds are against you. Even more so if a popular YouTuber they hold in high regard makes a video showing him or her winning a desirable pair of trainers, the latest iPhone or a Chanel bag. So as not to lose money, the mystery box would therefore have to cost US$283 dollars.If that doesn’t sound suspicious, bear in mind that there are at least ten other high-value items that could also be won in the same mystery box. “During using the services of the website You may encounter circumstances in which Your won items will not be received,” is also stated. These figures have now all vanished since someone publically demonstrated why the maths must be rubbish.Then there are the terms and conditions, which basically say that anyone who is underage is ineligible for a prize.
That pictured Ferrari 488 could be won ‘0.1131%’ of the time. Most adults know that.
Yes, you can win big – blame probability – but more often than not you will end worse off than when you started. YouTube looks bad for allowing the promotion of gambling to minors. So you can win a house that soon to be inhabited by someone else.It must be said, perhaps the company is legitimate. With a lot of hard work and, in some cases, a dash of luck.Ben Griffin is a motoring journalist and founder of the website and YouTube channel, A Tribe Called Cars. For the website to not lose money, it would have to cost US$7,600.Then there is the LA mansion itself, which is said to be worth US$250,000,000 as previously mentioned. We saw it first with the CS Go crates scam and video games (even the likes of Amazingly, these paid endorsements – apparently to the tune of US$100,000, according to another YouTuber who claims he was offered the same gig – are perfectly legal on YouTube. Doing some basic calculations and using the since removed probability figures for each major prize, a supercar worth around US$250,000 would, statistically-speaking, appear in a US$12.99 mystery box every 884th opening. Which is parked outside that LA mansion.It’s one thing for gambling to seep into gaming in the form of loot crates, but these mystery boxes really are awful things and likely to be an ongoing nightmare for YouTube if it fails to do something about them. Because YouTube fails to recognise these mystery box websites as a form of gambling. The YouTubers who promote these gambling websites look bad for abusing the trust of their audiences and for being greedy enough to think it was a good idea.Then there’s Mysterybrand.net, which looks worst of all for appearing to scam people. Although I doubt they will be having too many sleepless nights given that the owners are probably rolling around in a Ferrari 812 Superfast. In fact, one was said to be from a delivery more than two years old.So there are quite a few people with egg on their face. In other words, the mystery box would have to cost a lot more to cover the prizes it would be handing out.The same whistleblower Twitter user actually used the website’s own custom mystery box tool to replicate one of the more popular mystery box offerings. And yes, the house is currently up for sale, which means Mysterybrand.net doesn’t own it.
For starters, the website used to display the odds of winning each item in each mystery box.