But will they? I don’t think so.
As said the play time will be massively longer so in the meantime much more chance of a cashout or a decent win rather than say x5 bonus buys at £200 a pop..
The UKGC are useless, but a lot of what they are doing will help those who can’t control themselves, there’s a lot out there going on the stats and not to being the heathens into this (streamers) it’s gotten loads worse since they started there parasitic PR drive during lockdowns..
The only way the UKGC are helping those that cant control themselves is making all the UK facing ones disappear, that is until those players realize they can play non regulated ones, yeah great help??
As others have said they are quite clueless and there WILL be a point at which they proceed to cause more gambling related harm than they originally set out to protect against, and that time is possibly much closer than they think.
There is tons of ways to protect players yet they are not even thought of eg
1. RTP shown in load screen ( casinos wont be able to hide lower RTP versions )
2. All slots should load on max lines min stake.
3. Max bet should not be near start/spin, or do without it all together.
4. Max bet should not spin reels until warning promt is accepted or as above.
5. Autoplay loss limit optional ( if im playing 50 spins @20p im already aware im committing £10 ) why do i need to set it? set it to £10 as default.
6. Autoplay over 100 to 500 max allowed when loss limit is set by player.
7. Any SOW, RG, ML concerns to be checked at deposit not withdrawal.
8. Claims of Win up to 10000x etc should also have the true odds of this win displayed in the help/info file. ( If providers want to dangle those carrots they need to come clean on the true chance of that win )
9. I would also like to see at minimum each slot have to display its chance of say a 100x ( this provides a player enough to make a choice without a provider giving too much math away )
10. Slot profiles to be static to all stakes.
Just my 10p's worth if I worked for the UKGC!!