Have game providers started limiting Europe?

[Jawhead999]

Maybe it's because Stake has their own domain for US and UK citizen? although it's not EU, but this mean they're more regulated compared to other crypto casinos.

However, the good thing is government didn't ban crypto casinos and they choose to allow it as long as they follow the regulations. This hurt people for care with their privacy, but it's the choice for the owner to make their casino survive.

Unlike mixer who technically not illegal, but they can't comply with the regulation, otherwise they will turn to be honey pot instead of mixer.

[Cointxz]

I was trying Rainbet today and realized that most gaming providers are completely blocked in the site.


Hacksaw, Nolimit, Pragmatic, Evolution are all restricted and you can't access their games at all. Even if it's slots or even live games, it's all blocked.
Why is that? I read recently that Evolution games was threatened with disciplinary action by UK authorities for allowing their games to be played by punters in the UK and especially by unlicensed casinos. 

https://next.io/news/regulation/ukgc-commences-review-evolution-licence/

It's even possible Evolution gaming could lose its license in the UK due to this reason. However the fact of even losing unlicensed casinos is going to hurt their revenue massively and already the company's stock has been falling.

I'm not sure how a crypto casino would be affected by this. I'm personally located in Greece. Are these major providers now restricting their games in EU countries too?
On the other hand, when I go in Stake I can see these companies available. So what's going on here?

Even popular casino limits Europe player to access the casino so I’m not surprised if some of the game providers limit them since UK and EU has their own gambling license which is required for operators to acquire before they can operate.

They are almost same with US when it comes to regulation with online casino so popular global brand don’t dare to touch them to avoid legal problem in the future.

I believe most the Curacao license casino ban EU players.

[danherbias07]

I am not from Europe but I also bumped into some fishy notifications from slot providers and I think this is because they are trying to avoid their games being tampered with.
That's actually the first time I saw it and it's from our local online gambling application where PG Soft has a notification to make sure if the game is really theirs and once clicked it will go directly to some site (I am not sure if that is their website) and it will tell you it's legitimate. Or, you can just ignore it and play directly. I am not sure though if that's the case or if it's just plain area restriction.

Maybe because of this? https://rue.ee/gambling-regulations-in-europe/

They want every casino want to operate in their country will be regulated or registered to their country. this is somehow great action so that they can control those online gambling platform that will come in their country also they can earn some money from those operators that will operate in their jurisdictions.

If they won't follow on the regulation done by EU then I guess they would really get affected with the recent action done by authorities.

Thank you for this.

Every EU country has its own rules and regulations concerning online gambling

So we cannot say it's the whole continent. It's country-based restrictions and regulations.

[Taskford]

Maybe because of this? https://rue.ee/gambling-regulations-in-europe/

They want every casino want to operate in their country will be regulated or registered to their country. this is somehow great action so that they can control those online gambling platform that will come in their country also they can earn some money from those operators that will operate in their jurisdictions.

If they won't follow on the regulation done by EU then I guess they would really get affected with the recent action done by authorities.

Yes, but this is not new, the obligation has existed for years. The massive regulations in Europe whereby in order to be able to offer online gambling to players from European countries you need a country-specific licence were passed more than ten years ago.

The thing is that when they were passed, legislators didn't even know that cryptocurrencies existed, and they have been unchecked until relatively recently. The future is either not being able to play in cryptocurrency casinos (except by skipping the law and the ToS of the rooms) or that some casinos start paying European state licenses, so you will have to pass KYC from the beginning and it will be more expensive: casinos will have more House Edge, will give fewer promotions (to amortise the license and pay state taxes) and you will have to pay tax on top of that if you make a profit, plus it remains to be seen how the issue of intra-casino swaps will be resolved. I mean, if you buy bitcoin, it goes up and you exchange it for USDT, you have to pay taxes on the capital gain, and this is something that is typically done in casinos.

Sometimes imposing law delayed by enforcing officials and maybe there's changes of personnel happen that's why the they are strengthen up the law and now they are going after with those unregulated casinos in their jurisdiction.

Its crazy that this situation happen since its like they are limiting the operation of those casino and they want to eliminate those small ones then only entertain those companies that can pay huge money to them. Although there's chances that people might see fewer promotion and other things that can entertain them, but for sure those well funded casino would still launch something that can entertain their gamblers since somehow for sure they would think that getting good impression is needed to attract gamblers to play on their casino. Its just EU people will expect that they would undergo on KYC procedures since this is what has been asked by their government.

[shasan]

I was trying Rainbet today and realized that most gaming providers are completely blocked in the site.

It is not restricted on the gambling site if it was restricted on the gambling site then you could not see the link of the game on the site. Actually it is restricted the on your country or province. It might be happened based on the terms of your country and based on the terms of the game provider.