Germany's New Restrictions for Summer 2021(starting from October)

[kayenne23]

From 15th of October, German players will start facing new and strictly restrictions in their gambling wallet and pleasure. First of all, there are the new restrictions that will take place:

1. Maximum wager of 1euro

2. Minimum spin of 5 seconds!

3. Maximum loss limit to be set on 1000euros per month

4. 1 minute cooldown when the player goes out of the game and starts a new game. 

Dont know anything new yet, but i think Germany is getting in the companion of Sweden and Uk if you ask me. 

Any news or thought are welcome!

[pinnit2015]

That's worse than here tbf. The UK will probably try to outstrip that, though they may settle on 2 quid max

The 5 seconds is a real killer - try a Stakelogic game and see what it feels like.

I've had friends abroad who have gone 'HAHA, in the UK x,y,z' and i remember saying i wouldn't be so smug as where one regulator leads, others tend to follow. 

It's absolute bonkers - as a Regulator you want to ensure that players play in a regulated market with protections (within reasonable constraints), not drive them to some Costa Rica dive and that's all that achieves. It's not there to safeguard people, i don't know what it's meant to achieve other than to inflate egos. 

What's more concerning is how these are being implemented with very little evidence: where the empirical studies around stake size, 5 seconds? Very few, if any. So who's coming up with it? Pressure Groups? Who knows. 

[Afi4wins]

The way I see it, these people are purposely taking the fun and entertainment out of slotting and gambling bit by bit...until one day it becomes so laborious, dull and time wasting (including the money wasting too of course) that more and more gamblers would rather quit than be tortured.

I'm already slowly on my way out, so these changes would not bother me as much. 

[cocopop3011]

3 hours ago, kayenne23 said:

Maximum wager of 1euro

No way! That's got to effet some! What was the restriction before?

[kayenne23]

3 hours ago, pinnit2015 said:

That's worse than here tbf. The UK will probably try to outstrip that, though they may settle on 2 quid max

The 5 seconds is a real killer - try a Stakelogic game and see what it feels like.

I've had friends abroad who have gone 'HAHA, in the UK x,y,z' and i remember saying i wouldn't be so smug as where one regulator leads, others tend to follow. 

It's absolute Bonkers - as a Regulator you want to ensure that players play in a regulated market with protections (within reasonable constraints), not drive them to some Costa Rica dive and that's all that achieves. It's not there to safeguard people, i don't know what it's meant to achieve other than to inflate egos. 

What's more concerning is how these are being implemented with very little evidence: where the empirical studies around stake size, 5 seconds? Very few, if any. So who's coming up with it? Pressure Groups? Who knows. 

Yeah it's kinda dumb trying to force a player wait for 5 seconds in order to spin again. I mean there are slots that tempt to be slow, making them slower makes them automatically unplayable.

Don't know who is forcing these to happen but the whole concept came from the regulator itself. 

[kayenne23]

1 hour ago, Afi4wins said:

The way I see it, these people are purposely taking the fun and entertainment out of slotting and gambling bit by bit...until one day it becomes so laborious, dull and time wasting (including the money wasting too of course) that more and more gamblers would rather quit than be tortured.

I'm already slowly on my way out, so these changes would not bother me as much. 

In 10 years there are 2 possibilities. Either the land based casinos to be filled with players again or online slots to be independent from restrictions

[kayenne23]

37 minutes ago, cocopop3011 said:

No way! That's got to effet some! What was the restriction before?

I think none

[Afi4wins]

5 hours ago, kayenne23 said:

In 10 years there are 2 possibilities. Either the land based casinos to be filled with players again or online slots to be independent from restrictions

Independent from restrictions or regulations? Now that would be absolutely impossible! No governance would ever allow complete freedom without policing! Gamblers running back to land-based casinos and bookmakers is more likely, but even that is now being restricted by a governing body called CORONA!