- Joined
- Jan 17, 2014
- Location
- Northern Ireland
As many regulars to this forum will know, I'm kinda like the full moon; I appear, then I'm gone for a while, then I appear, gone... etc.
This is largely in line with my casino habits; I'll play for a while, then set 6-week breaks on my accounts and stay away for some considerable time before I get the urge for a flutter and come back (usually after much longer than the 6 weeks).
The problem is, it seems every time I come back the UK-licensed casinos are worse. Auto play is removed, bet sizing is reduced, games are removed, bonus-buying is gone, KYC is horribly intrusive, SOW is up the whazoo, more and more rules and restrictions are being added, and more fun is being removed.
What in the actual feck is going on? It seems like the UKGC is run by people who have never actually played online casinos, and they are just pulling ideas out of a suggestion box and applying them as regulations for players. I'm genuinely so jealous of people in mainland Europe who - unless I'm wrong - can just go to an online casino and play however they see fit, the way WE used to play just a couple of years ago. The good old days, God help me.
Things are getting so bad I wouldn't be surprised if all we're left with soon is a live feed of a "tuppenny" coin pusher arcade game where we have a strict 10-coin limit each month and have to provide proof of where we got the 20p to begin with.
What is really driving all this change? It can't be money - because we're being forced to spend less, thus less players, less income taxes generated etc. This is a rapidly reducing system where the end game can only be an end to online gaming at all in the UK. But why? Why is it going in this direction?
This is largely in line with my casino habits; I'll play for a while, then set 6-week breaks on my accounts and stay away for some considerable time before I get the urge for a flutter and come back (usually after much longer than the 6 weeks).
The problem is, it seems every time I come back the UK-licensed casinos are worse. Auto play is removed, bet sizing is reduced, games are removed, bonus-buying is gone, KYC is horribly intrusive, SOW is up the whazoo, more and more rules and restrictions are being added, and more fun is being removed.
What in the actual feck is going on? It seems like the UKGC is run by people who have never actually played online casinos, and they are just pulling ideas out of a suggestion box and applying them as regulations for players. I'm genuinely so jealous of people in mainland Europe who - unless I'm wrong - can just go to an online casino and play however they see fit, the way WE used to play just a couple of years ago. The good old days, God help me.
Things are getting so bad I wouldn't be surprised if all we're left with soon is a live feed of a "tuppenny" coin pusher arcade game where we have a strict 10-coin limit each month and have to provide proof of where we got the 20p to begin with.
What is really driving all this change? It can't be money - because we're being forced to spend less, thus less players, less income taxes generated etc. This is a rapidly reducing system where the end game can only be an end to online gaming at all in the UK. But why? Why is it going in this direction?