Jane Greenwood

I guess we will find out if Casinogrounds is for the players, or for the casinos in the next couple of days.

It is obviously different from each supplier of games, but if there are multiple RTPs available, then usually in the weeks before the game is due to go live, we will get a marketing email from them listing all the key features of the game, a reminder of the launch date, and different game ids corresponding to the different RTP levels. This is not how all do it, but most. There are no options for controlling hit rates of bonuses or any other controls like that. There are options for things like limiting the max bet if an operator wanted to reduce the potential liability of a volatile game with a large max win, or turn the gamble feature off or bonus buys off. The closest thing I can think of that actually happens is that some countries get different RTPs in different countries. With the recent changes to German regulations, some operators have lowered the RTP of content for German players, but kept it higher for non German players. But for the company I work for it would, from a current technical point of view, be impossible to offer one RTP to some customers (say VIPs) and a different to RTP to newer customers. One factor in this is a lot of companies that are big in the industry run things like their CMS systems off very old tech. Chances are the system that was used to launch starburst all them years ago is still being used to launch the latest Netnet games. Sure, it can be adapted, and worked on for regulatory changes, but it would be a mammoth task to get technical teams to work on splitting out RTPs for customers from the same regions. It differs from license to license. Yearly audits are a legal requirement in Denmark for example. Suppliers are very good at monitoring the RTPs of their games and alerting operators to any issues. It isn't something that happens frequently, but it does happen. When it does, the regulators are informed for each of the areas there is a breach. so UKGC, MGA etc.. Then reports have to be filed and account managers get an earful from operators because of all the hassle it has caused. what happens for most big operators is that an internal compliance team will have to sign off a game getting launched before it can go live on the website. So they will make sure all the certificates are accurate and from a testing house that is certified itself, and relate to the game and gamecode being used to put the game live, and that it has been tested in all the countries the operator is in. It is a very good point though. Compliance teams at any large operator consist of 20,30, 50, maybe more people, whose job it is day in and day out is to make sure what is put on the website is far and not breaching any laws or license requirements, and come down hard on any supplier who breaches any of these rules. And from the other side, all suppliers have compliance teams whos job it is is to get their games tested.

Very quiet from all involved at CG...

I work for a large, well respected, regulated operator. No one gives a shit about streamers. Not really anyway. In the grand scheme of things, there are VIPs that do more turnover in one day then a streamer will do in a year. The idea that game suppliers have got together with operators to somehow give them a higher rtp or made the games work in a way that it recognises a steamers is the equivalent of saying that to boost tv subscriptions to sports channels, TV broadcasters have got together with football clubs and told them to score more goals in televised matches to make them more appealing. Casinos want loyalty. They don't care how many deposits or withdrawals you make, as long as you keep coming back to their casino. what do you want to know...