Quote of the Day
“[C]oming through the back door, a two-headed monster of slot machines and mega-jackpots, both online, a monster … may completely overtake the conventional gaming industry. The lotteries, without any additional legislation or oversight, can offer, online, both slots and other casino games and those very, very large game-changing jackpots. A casino company has to invest hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars to build a competitive casino; lotteries do not. Lotteries will have access to every home and have the latest and best gaming products to offer. If casinos eventually get online, they will be months or years behind the lotteries. And when the casinos finally do go online, they will be more tightly regulated and taxed than the lotteries; it will be very difficult for casinos to keep up. … Did anyone know they were opening the back door to online gambling and inviting the lotteries to come inside and claim the best spot at the table?” — CDC Gaming Reports analyst Ken Adams, taking a very bleak view of brick-and-mortar casino companies’ prospects if Internet gambling is legalized in the U.S.
Nope. Whenever anything new gets proposed in our society, the entrenched interests come out of the woodwork with scary stories. Change is inevitable, either you adjust or fail. The technology will not be thwarted by casino and resort owners for too long, and they know it. Time for those folks to make their case to us, the gamblers/consumers, as to why gambling is better in their house, not our own…
What? You’re not persuaded by Sheldon Adelson’s *diktat* that gambling in your own home is immoral but shooting dice at his place is just good, clean fun?