Sometimes scenarios can be frustrating to players that occur. Sometimes those frustrations spill over into our inbox, such as this question:
Is it legal for games like Bluberi to default bets to be max?
Lisa R.
If it’s on the casino floor, it’s already passed a regulatory review that includes third party laboratory testing that tests for passing all existing regulations that a given casino market requires.
That doesn’t mean the regulations have caught up with what’s going on, and when they do, machines that predated the regulation can still exist on casino floors. For example, there’s still players who are frustrated about how slot makers handle multi-denomination setups.
Video slots used to not reset to a denomination screen by default, but now they do as a standard practice. In the earlier days of multi-denomination video slots, players would often not catch they were on a higher denomination before they began betting much higher than they had wanted to.
This is still a frustration at times with mechanical reel slots, which don’t reset to a denomination screen nearly as often, but they’ve also functioned this way a lot longer – you have to remember to tap the denomination you want before beginning to spin, or it will default to the denomination it was already on when you sat down.
So as far as a bet choice being the default, if a machine’s functioning like that on the casino floor, it’s legal in terms of the rules that exist today. If gaming regulators and casinos receive enough complaints about how things are working they’ll take a look at it for future regulatory rule updates.
This is a great example where player voices matter, and if enough raise their concerns, it might receive a review for the future. The same goes for the game makers, who don’t want to frustrate players in a way that deters them from their games, so it never hurts to use those comment boxes and social message options to share your feedback.
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