Quote from: SirJohnVonSlotty on January 22, 2024, 09:12:12 AM

It's been a year since I've joined this forum and I was somewhat reluctant in opening an "Ask me Anything" thread due to all the spam going on in the gambling section, but several users requested it, and I've also enabled self-moderation to battle the spammers. Hopefully it will be a fun exercise where we can all together make this section more interesting.

So, I've been in this industry for a while now, I'm part of a team that operates several brands, and have also worked within other operations, including MGA, UKGC and Curacao licensed brands. I would say that I know the ins and outs of most of the operations out there, including some high end competitors, and I would love to share any insights or answer any burning questions that someone outside of the industry has. I'm not the owner of the casino though, so I'll not be able to answer questions targeted towards that area of the business, but I can try to shed light on anything else.

I can cover almost anything, game selections, bonus methods, VIP players, troubles with the law, license structure. You can ask anything, and if the questions are really interesting, I'll include them in this post as an edit.

Regarding the self-moderation aspect of the thread, I will not abuse it. I don't mind entering a proper argument, maybe you'll learn something new, maybe I will. But if I smell an AI-written post, or a random one just to boost your campaign numbers, I will delete it. I already created more than enough cool threads that got eaten up by spammers, I don't want this one to be another of those.

On the topic of the licenses in the gambling industry, I have a quick question I'd like to ask.

I've been seeing a lot of casinos nowadays, even the most obscure ones and more importantly some that are tagged as scam in this forum or somewhere else be able to get their seals of approval from Curacao (like the notorious 1xb_t which received quite the backlash in this forum) and other license providers in the industry, and to that my question is, is it even worth it to grab licenses from these figures at this point? If it is, why? And what are their processes of granting licenses like, if it's okay for you to tell us.

Asking cause to me it feels like the value of licenses at this point has become so low that it's way more economical and smart for a rising casino to just establish reputation by word of mouth than get themselves licensed by Curacao or whatever. And how long do you think it would take for this leniency to actually affect the general public's perception of gambling licenses and in turn casinos who get themselves licensed by these providers?

Thanks if you're able to answer this, thank you anyway if you couldn't as I saw you being very smart and eager to answer the people's questions here which I truly appreciate.