Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Issue: 64   Editor: ApocalypticAldarion


FourSeasons- Casino Royale SomethingWittyPoison
It’s not every day that a single player owns more than five casinos, ten is a rarity, twenty is a miracle and quite frankly until this week I would have said forty was impossible. Turns out I was wrong, again! We got in touch with FourSeasons to get his thoughts on being, if our memory serves us correctly, the player who has held the most casinos in the history of Bootleggers! We’ll see if Guinness will put you in their book!

But before I go into the interview with FourSeaons let me lay out the facts for those of you who missed the events!
Quite simply, FourSeaons, through picking up and buying casinos managed to obtain 40 casinos, he then set them all to unlimited maxes and simply let people gamble like it was possible to do ‘in the old days’. As it may be difficult to visualise exactly how many casinos that is, for a start it is nearly 90% of all of the in game casinos, 40/45! This is a screenshot we took in the early stages of FourSeaons’ mass buying, which gives you an idea of the dominance he had over the states page:

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This shows the states page when FourSeasons held only 26 out of his eventual 40 casinos.


Anyway, back to the interview! First, we asked FourSeaons about the motivation behind his bulk buy of casinos, he told us that it was down to “The fact many people asked me to do some decent maxes in every state.” Adding, “Besides that I am bored and lost $250mil gambling today.” The fictional character Bruce Wayne out of Batman springs to mind; he got bored and would buy a hotel; FourSeaons seems to be the Bootleggers equivalent, he was “Bored and [wanted] to make fun and money.”

So the next question seemed an obvious one, just how rich is FourSeaons? He wasn’t shy about sharing the extensiveness of his resources, telling us that he had “18k points, $654mil on a holder, 40 casino's, $50mil chips, and $80mil on hand.” We presume that FourSeaons was telling the truth and with a quick bit of mental arithmetic from the Buzz’s resident maths genius Vanish, we worked out that this lot came to nearly $1,200,000,000. Yes, that many 0’s! At the time we spoke to FourSeaons he was making a profit too, he told us he had made “$100mil profit over the past few days” from his casinos on unlimited max’s!

Some people commented in the thread made in the game forum about this issue and privately to us at the Buzz that this simply wouldn’t have been possible in the past of Bootleggers. That if one player controlled this many resources they would simply be killed, even if they were lucky enough to get so many people to sell to them. We asked FourSeasons whether he thought his said anything about the state of the game and he said ‘No It could be done at any time. It just requires some guts points and $.”
Well, regardless of whether it wouldn’t have happened in the old days, it happens now! Only one day after FourSeasons had held forty casinos and $150,000,000 in cash and chips, he was shot by iZhao, a seemingly crewless player ranked Boss boasting 82 kills on his profile, although mostly low ranked players. iZhao was unavailable for comment on why he shot FourSeaons, however he created a topic in the game forum entitled ‘Get Ready’ that suggested he simply shot him to see all the casinos drop. We did, however, manage to get in touch with the reincarnated form of FourSeaons- F0urSeasons. For someone who told us he had just lost “41 casino's and around 80mil “he seemed remarkably calm, explaining that there was no plan to extract revenge and he “knew it would come.” Adding, “All I got to laugh at is that some people promised me I would not be shot because LAPD was allied with some other crews and still I got by them.” So it seems the rainbow coalition of Bootleggers crews doesn’t protect you if you push your luck too far and blatantly flash your wealth about.

A good sign for the game perhaps, FourSeasons ended our interview with his advice on how to play the game; “Enjoy gaming. Don't beg for money work hard for it. And stop crying for a reset.”