Novibet leaves the UK market

[satchnz]

I’m not really active in any other arms of the industry besides online slots and the National Lottery, but is the UKGC imposing similar misguided restrictions on sports betting and horse racing?

 

[Flyingslotsman]

Just read the email about this there the now, that's a massive kick in the clems from a singular point of view. It was my go to and literally only place I slotted at, geez...

Think it may be time to move on from the slots, UKGC single handedly destroying the UK market. No autoplay is garbage, but no novibet with higher RTP's suck!

 

[ergosum]

Gamesys,Bet365.

This surprises me, the RTP for me at least from Megaways and Virgin games is horrendously bad.

 

[dunover]

What is the UKGC's game here? It's almost as if they've been tasked with destroying the online gambling scene in the UK.

Surely something has to give soon.

Vladimir Putin is reported to be in the running for next chairman.

 

[paul7388]

Paddy,Betfair, Party and Sporting Bet too.

Don't know why you keep saying Paddy Power a lot of their slots are at a lower RTP as well.

 

[pinnit2014]

And Party run theirs at 94% etc as well for a lot.

Mr Q are limited but still at the top ones - though I imagine it won't be for long.

 

[jasonuk]

Don't know why you keep saying Paddy Power a lot of their slots are at a lower RTP as well.

Agreed - their older stuff generally runs at the default RTPs (the big anomaly being the Red Tiger Daily Jackpots at 90+3%), but they've been testing out lower RTPs for a while now - including A/B testing different RTPs on Paddy v Betfair, and even on different tabs on the same site.

As for Party, Entain were one of the earliest to start culling RTPs, including the rather serious incident a couple of years back where both Coral and Gala were potentially breaching their license for advertising the wrong RTP for months (they migrated games to the GVC platform, removed the in-game help files and lopped 2% off at the same time, "forgetting" to update the external help until highlighted here on CM).

The list of UK-facing casinos offering full-fat RTP on historical slots is getting ever shorter, the list offering full-fat on new releases is approaching extinction.

 

[slot_zombie]

I've noticed a pernicious trend of lowering Pragmatic RTPs in various places, the last couple of months. Had to happen, I suppose. Are some of those volatile games even playable with 2% lopped off...?

Just waiting for Mr Q and the couple of other holdouts to exit stage right, then it will be Game Over as far as playing many of the main providers on a UKGC licenced site is concerned. 94% or less all round, and the champagne's on ice, boys.

Never played a sub-par RTP game, and never will. If only the general public were more savvy...

 

[justdoit]

good bye Novibet

 

[brianmon]

I'm still getting emails from them, telling me that they're going to be leaving the UK market last month.

 

[JohnSnow]

No offense but if I had a casino i would avoid the UKGC too. Seems like they don't really care for the players opinion. And other regulators are taking over their tactics like no auto spin. Way to rekt yourself from the market.