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Turning Cockfighting Into An Online Gambling Form
There are few gambling forms that divide people as cockfighting. Animal activists flag it down as animal cruelty. But for gamers and gamecock owners in India, Pakistan and the Philippines, cockfighting is excitement, combat, and money all in one.
This is not the same as in online gambling, where the level of acceptance is such that it is very popular. There are so many websites dedicated to online gambling, and online gambling is seen as a healthier alternative to offline gambling.
In cockfighting, like any other offline gambling form, you have to spend real money before you can see two roosters fighting it out to the death. The only logical option to unite cockfight gamblers and animal activists is to turn the blood sport into an online gambling form. There are some ways that online cockfighting can be made possible. Betting on the outcome of actual cockfights, like the cockfights broadcast on national television in the Philippines, is NOT one of them.
(There are no online gambling sites that feature cockfighting so far.)
Website owners can take the cue from online Role Playing Games or RPG, where the sense of fun is premised on the players' attitude towards pretend and play.
When cockfighting becomes an online gambling form, a user can choose to become either just a better or a breeder of fighting cocks. When a user chooses to become a breeder, he can log on and choose from a breed of cocks on display. A store within the website allows users to choose which feeds to feed the cock as well as what vitamins and boosters to inject.
Of course, the main feature of this online gambling version of cockfighting would be the cockpit. The cockpit is where online gamers meet and line up their roosters for the big bloody game. Here, gamers can choose which fighting cocks to breed and for how much. This may or may not involve real money.
As to which fighting cock actually wins any match of this online gambling, it is something that should be determined by the website programmer.
The biggest challenge to turning cockfighting into an online gambling form is in designing the cockpit and designing the cocks so that they gamers get the feel of an actual cockpit so they won't have a hard time pretending that they are at a real match - only that it's been morphed into an online gambling form.
RPG that makes use of two-dimensional graphics rarely become popular among gamers.