The survival MMO Rust launched in 2013 with a few rudimentary survival features, but over the years it has grown into a remarkable game. One feature that Twitch streamers and viewers are currently fascinated with is a casino.
What makes Rust special? Rust has been in development for PC for 7 years. When it started in 2013, it was essentially planned as a clone of DayZ and wanted to add a few elements from Minecraft.
Over the last 7 years, the game has gradually grown, offering numerous features and a vast world. It has developed significantly.
In 2021, a number of Twitch streamers discovered Rust: They celebrate the diverse possibilities that the game offers. Especially since very few new attractive multiplayer games are being released Rust is experiencing an unprecedented hype and getting much more attention than in previous years. Especially, the casino is incredibly popular on Twitch.
The streamer Dafran hits the jackpot in Rust:
This is how the casino works: In 2018, the “Bandit Camp” was introduced to Rust. It is a place that can be found on some servers and serves as a safe zone. Here, one can engage in gambling, a kind of roulette or fortune wheel. You bet “Scraps”, the currency of Rust, on one of 5 colors on the wheel and have the chance to receive multiple times the amount of Scraps back or lose your bet.
There are 5 different fields: Half of all fields are Yellow, but only one is Red:
- If you bet on Yellow and win, you only get a “small profit”: If you put in 1000 Scraps, you can double it to 2000.
- If you bet on Red and win, you gain a huge profit. For 1000 Scraps, you receive 21,000 Scraps back.
There is a “small house edge” on the winning chances, so the roulette overall acts as a “money sink”. More Scraps flow out than come in.
Viewers always know better
What fascinates Twitch so much about the casino? It is the same fascination as with “real gambling”, which is also highly popular on Twitch.
The big streamers gamble their Scraps and then celebrate their victories or lament their defeats. Fans comment wisely from their seats, share the joy with the streamers when they win, or claim they knew better when they lose.
Many streamers swear by “secret methods”: They claim to have recognized patterns or know what comes next. Viewers shake their heads and explain that the streamer has no idea what he is talking about.
The most popular clip of the past week on Twitch related to Rust shows the perpetual gamer xQc slowly gambling away his entire fortune in Rust and ultimately leaving the casino dejected and silently. The chat mocks him for not being able to stop gambling. He should have listened to the chat. xQc is called dumb, brain-dead, just bad, one can read.
A car drives past xQc. Through the proximity chat, you can hear the streamer shroud calling out how much he is looking forward to the casino, while xQc continues on unaffected, pretending he hasn’t heard it. The chat bursts into loud laughter.
For some Twitch fans, “the best clip of all time”. That shroud, the biggest streamer in Rust after xQc, drives past at that moment is just picture-perfect and shows how closely joy and sorrow lie next to each other in the casino of Rust.
There seems to be a great fascination with casino streams on Twitch. Even in Germany, some streamers have grown significantly when they focused on gambling streams. But that has now apparently come to an end due to new regulations. Because even successful streamers like Jens “Knossi” Knossalla are suddenly ending their casino streams:
Twitch streamer suddenly wants to be a role model, ends gambling streams
