MACAU BUSINESS
to deliver slot machines to Macau they were not peo- ple who understood the mentality of the people and the ethnic basis of that. So, you would see the colours shown [that were] incredibly bad for people who were here, also you would see something strange like a dragon in the slot game, but the number of claws on that dragon was wrong then local people would look at that and walk away[…] So you’ve got to get those things right.
Are there any disadvantages to social gaming? You have to be careful with social gaming, and I ac-
tually saw someone presenting a few years ago call- ing it social gambling. I think there are some issues there. If that game is a social game – what actual type of game is it? The visuals that are put out - should those be rated for age groups? If you’ve got games that are showing problems and steaming cars […] should that be allowed for younger people who are playing a social game? If there’s money being paid into those games to get past a certain level – who controls the payment system there? Those things are important. Sometimes I’ve seen in the past a copy of, let’s say,
poker that’s put out there as a social game. They’re not charging people to play; they might be doing ad- vertising and this sort of thing but what happens if the RNG (random number generator) behind there actually convinces that person that they’ve won – be- cause they’ve favoured them with the odds by making it more in their favour. And then you offer to turn them into a real gaming environment – when they think they’re an expert now. That’s not very clever; that’s very poor and has to be looked at by regulators to make sure that there aren’t any things happening like that which could ruin people.
What major upcoming projects are you most ex-
cited about? I have a number of people we’re talking to who are bringing wonderful new product ideas and turning products around a little bit. I can’t go into too much detail because these are patents that have been ap- plied for and they’re going through this environment but there’re some very interesting ideas that we’re trying to help people to grow. I think these will make a really good concept with a few really good games that we’re talking to at the moment.
22 AUGUST 2016
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