Current Events > Why in the heck are they changing Mega Millions?

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http://www.megamillions.com/news-releases/mega-millions-enhanced-starting-jackpots-increase-to-40m-bigger-average-jackpots-more-millionaires

What, was 1 in 259 million odds to easy to win?

Being cheaper to play than Powerball was literally your only advantage over them, and you're getting rid of that?

Oh, and they're now offering an option to play two games for $3 with the caveat that games played at that price aren't eligible to win anything except the jackpot. Because they know their bigger customers really are that fucking stupid.
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The odds are astronomical.

This just means I'll do what I do when I play powerball. Buy one line for 2 dollars and that's it. If you're gonna hit, you're gonna hit.
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it's a voluntary stupid tax. they are changing it to make it a more effective voluntary stupid tax.

specific changes to the voluntary stupid tax fall below the interest threshold of most people (except targets of said voluntary stupid tax)
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Trying to real in more customers with the big jackpots being popular and people will pay. I will personally will never play the lotto again seeing as I will never win. The news always shows the big winner. The never show the millions of losers. I used to play hardcore unto I woke up one day and realized I would never win and was wasting my already poor money
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Yeah, to be fair I only play when the jackpot gets to half a billion and even then I only buy one ticket per drawing. I think the problem is I'm just an old curmudgeon who remembers "the good ol' days" when there was no national lotto and the state lotto's odds were one in an 8-digit number.
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