WARNING generated about Sorare.com

[fiulpro]

The gambling commission has warned the people of the site *sorare.com*. I do remember some people posting about this site and it seemed good for the first impression.

I do remember a post being made about this site which provides fantasy football games where players can trade cards and win as well.

Since Sorare doesn’t have a licence, any activity players of Great Britain complete on the site is outside the regulations any licensed operator has to comply with, such as player protection rules. Therefore, the regulator has warned customers to consider this information before signing up and interacting with Sorare.

But apparently they are still thinking if sorare does require any any license or they can be operating normally without one since they are not really providing gambling services according to them, but the results have to still come out.

Right now it's not really safe to transfer funds on that site.
( Until they decide to get the license or maybe the government rules out that they don't need any, either way, stay safe!)

https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13454/gambling-commission-warns-of-unlicensed-sorarecom

[Wexnident]

Wait sorare is related to gambling? Wasn't it similar to something like card games but football-styled? It doesn't look like gambling to me, though if you do get cards based on luck then it might be similar to loot boxes in most games though I don't think that can be considered as one? If I were to pick something similar to it, then it'd probably be something like hearthstone or something tbh, but gambling? Nah. I'd reckon most games would under be gambling if we consider sorare to be one, though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. What I know is pretty superficial tbh.

[YOSHIE]

Interested in learning more about Sorare.com, which offers fantasy football betting, I'm trying to learn here: Sorare Beginners Guide Everything you need to know to start playing, and here: Getting Started on Sorare – A Beginner’s Guide, it seems that Sorare.com is still a beginner for me.

OP, have you ever made a bet like what is said on the Sorare website, can you tell us a little about your experience making bets.

Maybe I need to learn more about Sorare.

[casperBGD]

Interested in learning more about Sorare.com, which offers fantasy football betting, I'm trying to learn here: Sorare Beginners Guide Everything you need to know to start playing, and here: Getting Started on Sorare – A Beginner’s Guide, it seems that Sorare.com is still a beginner for me.

OP, have you ever made a bet like what is said on the Sorare website, can you tell us a little about your experience making bets.

Maybe I need to learn more about Sorare.

I made several posts about Sorare, if you are interested, ask a question
regarding betting, it is not possible to bet on Sorare, it is not a gambling site at all, so I do not see it as a problem they are not registered for gambling

it is fantasy-football game, similar to FPL for example, except that you have to own a player (real money and value involved) to have it in your team, Bundes liga, La liga, Jupiler and Ere-divisie are already part of Sorare (with several other leagues), and you can earn two times a week rewards, based on your team success

Cards are on Ethereum blockchain, although, Sorare itself is using L2 on Ethereum

[michellee]

Suppose the gambling commission already warns people not to use sorare.com to gamble. So, in that case, people should follow for their safety because I think maybe the commission already investigates what happened to that site and sees the possibility of people getting something worse.

If the license is something that the site needs to have, maybe they will register their license in the related commission instances to operate without a problem.

[casperBGD]

I don't think they are as a gambling firm and I remember from a thread here that it was just a trading card game but the possibility that they could be into gambling was that huge right? What I mean is that the game involve money at all purchasing some items afaik and other things. @casperBGD?

it is not gambling at all
it is closer to Panini stickers, https://www.paninigroup.com/en/ce/, but cards that you buy on Sorare have utility, since these could be used in fantasy football competition, ownership, since you are the card owner on the Ethereum blockchain and scarcity, since all cards have respective number of issued cards per season:
- unique - 1 card
- superrare - 10 cards
- rare - 100 cards
- limited - 1000 cards

there is no gambling possible, only trading, and possible speculation based on trading, but that is related to anything trade-able, it is not gambling

[YOSHIE]

I made several posts about Sorare, if you are interested, ask a question
regarding betting, it is not possible to bet on Sorare, it is not a gambling site at all, so I do not see it as a problem they are not registered for gambling

yes, that's fun, thanks for your reply.

I saw your thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5310911.msg56142430#msg56142430

Yes, of course I will collect some questions that must be asked, after I first studied the Sorare system, at least I had to understand how 50% worked, I like challenges and unique ways to do soccer betting.

I never bet or interact with sorare.com. Even though I heard it for a while. Since it's not a great place to bet and the level of security is not guaranteed, I thought it would be very risky to put funds in and bet there.

You make me doubt, my plan is to learn more about how Sorare.com works.
You broke my spirit for it....?

Have you ever seen and experienced as you say, I mean 'fund security'.

[Sterbens]

I never bet or interact with sorare.com. Even though I heard it for a while. Since it's not a great place to bet and the level of security is not guaranteed, I thought it would be very risky to put funds in and bet there.

We still have safer sportsbooks today. So try to avoid sites that are totally irresponsible with your money. Especially with a warning that is loud enough to indicate that you don't want anything to harm the other party.

[AicecreaME]

I was thinking about solaire since they sound alike but they are different. Sorare is an NFT soccer game if I'm not mistaken and someone posted here in gambling section asking if it's worth it to buy expensive teams on them. My opinion is that they don't need a license since it is an NFT and we're talking about cryptocurrency here which is decentralized. I think the Government just wants some additional taxes on their personal wallets that's why they are trying to heat things up regarding about NFT, just like here in our country.

[fiulpro]

Interested in learning more about Sorare.com, which offers fantasy football betting, I'm trying to learn here: Sorare Beginners Guide Everything you need to know to start playing, and here: Getting Started on Sorare – A Beginner’s Guide, it seems that Sorare.com is still a beginner for me.

OP, have you ever made a bet like what is said on the Sorare website, can you tell us a little about your experience making bets.

Maybe I need to learn more about Sorare.

No I did not really made a bet there but I do remember players on the forum getting engaged on sorare. Even though it's fantasy football, it's being treated like Gambling by the government, but I do feel like Jury is still out on that, therefore its more important to look out for anything that happens in the future.

I do know about the website tho and did go through everything before.

I was thinking about solaire since they sound alike but they are different. Sorare is an NFT soccer game if I'm not mistaken and someone posted here in gambling section asking if it's worth it to buy expensive teams on them. My opinion is that they don't need a license since it is an NFT and we're talking about cryptocurrency here which is decentralized. I think the Government just wants some additional taxes on their personal wallets that's why they are trying to heat things up regarding about NFT, just like here in our country.

Exactly, it's a heated argument against them and we all know how bad it can turn in a matter of seconds and therefore I do think people should still clear off depositing and engaging with anything till things are cleared out, well I do think they should also encourage things to get sorted out soon .

Wait sorare is related to gambling? Wasn't it similar to something like card games but football-styled? It doesn't look like gambling to me, though if you do get cards based on luck then it might be similar to loot boxes in most games though I don't think that can be considered as one? If I were to pick something similar to it, then it'd probably be something like hearthstone or something tbh, but gambling? Nah. I'd reckon most games would under be gambling if we consider sorare to be one, though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. What I know is pretty superficial tbh.

Well apparently the government and people are treating most of the things as gambling, even the trading sometimes. We cannot just treat it as a gambling website for sure but at the same time we cannot ignore the warning generated against them at the same time. It's more like better to be safe that sorry, rest I do hope sorare, sorts it out soon ! Because I do know that a lot of people are interested in it.

[avikz]

Sorare doesn't look like a gambling website at all. It seems more like a fantasy sports gaming platform along with some NFT stuffs. So I don't know if they should come under the purview of gambling license at all. Because in my country, gambling is legally banned. But there are fantasy sports gaming websites available for everyone legally. Till the time, no one is betting money on the outcome of a game, it can't be technically called gambling to be honest. I will have a detailed look at the website as it really looks something other than gambling to me.

[24Kt]

Sorare doesn't look like a gambling website at all. It seems more like a fantasy sports gaming platform along with some NFT stuffs. So I don't know if they should come under the purview of gambling license at all. Because in my country, gambling is legally banned. But there are fantasy sports gaming websites available for everyone legally. Till the time, no one is betting money on the outcome of a game, it can't be technically called gambling to be honest. I will have a detailed look at the website as it really looks something other than gambling to me.

Based from the definition of their service as published on their site

https://sorare.com/game_rules

"which operates a service of issuance and exchange of collectible digital cards on blockchain. As part of this activity, it organizes a promotional game for its users, governed by these Rules"

So I don't know how the government will recognize this as part of the gambling industry? Is the government being too precautious when it comes to gaming industry? The prize of the tournaments may either be collectibles or ether. But I don't think, they should be classified to get a gambling license.