The Victoria government is reconsidering a measure that would impose maximum losses and time limits for slot machine players at Crown Resorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- When Victoria\u2019s Royal Commission found Crown Resorts unsuitable to hold a licence for its Crown Melbourne casino<\/strong> in October, it allowed Crown to keep its licence<\/a>\u00a0under stricter conditions, but Judge Raymond Finkelstein<\/strong>, who led the inquiry made\u00a033 recommendations<\/a>, which included proposing mandatory limits on the time and money customers can spend on Crown Melbourne’s 2,628 gaming machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Victoria\u2019s Royal Commission found\u00a0the government’s voluntary advance payment scheme YourPlay was “unsuccessful”<\/strong>, with low acceptance rates and no action when spending limits were reached. Finkelstein suggested that the YourPlay system should be replaced\u00a0by “a full, mandatory, binding pre-commitment system for Australian residents to gamble with EGMs at Melbourne casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He recommended that players would be able to set a weekly and monthly loss limit as well as a limit on the amount of time they can spend on EGMs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Victorian government supported those recommendations “in principle”, but the proposals to limit the time and money spent on slots are now facing opposition from the Department of Justice and the Department of Community Safety. It’s noted that a similar system launched in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2012<\/strong>, was abandoned in 2014 because it did little to address gambling addiction rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Victorian government is expected to\u00a0discuss responsible gambling regulations<\/strong>\u00a0again later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victoria government is reconsidering a measure that would impose maximum losses and time limits for slot machine players at Crown Resorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Victorian government is re-evaluating proposed mandatory loss and time limits for Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) players at Crown Melbourne, initially recommended by the Royal Commission. While supported in principle, these pre-commitment measures now face departmental opposition, citing the ineffectiveness of a similar system in Nova Scotia. This reconsideration impacts regulatory compliance and responsible gambling frameworks for the Australian iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Crown Resorts, Victoria\u2019s Royal Commission, Raymond Finkelstein, Department of Justice, Department of Community Safety","focusai_location":"Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Nova Scotia, Canada","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"EGM Revenue Impact","query":"What is the projected GGR and NGR impact on Crown Melbourne if mandatory pre-commitment systems for EGMs are fully implemented, considering historical data from Nova Scotia?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution","query":"How might the Victorian government's final decision on mandatory EGM limits influence the broader regulatory compliance and governance frameworks for other gaming verticals in Australia?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[14657],"class_list":["post-26640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-crown-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26659,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions\/26659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}