Is "Responsible Gambling" just a legal disclaimer, not a real protection?

[joniboini]

I mean, we can explore their claim further. Let's say they provide the tools, but it doesn't actually work, needs their approval for little changes, which takes weeks, provides high-risk promo with no transparent rules, etc, then it's not hard to prove they're not doing anything to support their claim. Making general statements and believing that everyone is good or evil is just a bad idea imo.

[Mrbluntzy]

IMO, it is indeed the responsibility of a gambler to be responsible in gambling, there's no way a casino can force the gambler to be responsible if they already decided on their own that they won't be responsible. Some people can decide to take self exclusion but if it becomes tough on them, they will open a new account and still continue to gamble. If casinos would force players to be responsible, then they would have to be strict and it could cause them have reduction in profit.

[whiteblue]

Is it really true that when casinos claim to protect players based on the idea of "responsible gambling", but in reality they are using this tool to shield themselves from gamblers legally? They claim that they have given the gamblers a chance not to become addict or lose money on their platform.

So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

I think for this matter when some sites always remind gambling responsibly does not mean they protect some of their players to gamble but in the end it is just a reminder not to be too excessive to gamble but when the reminder is not heeded by the gamblers then it is not their domain anymore because the site obviously always expects profit and they will get it from the gamblers themselves.

All of them return to the awareness of the gambler himself because the responsibility in gambling is clearly the responsibility of the gambler, not the responsibility of the gambling site because in this case the gambling site only provides services with various types of offers and games.

[Fiatless]

We all have common sense. You are to be held responsible for your actions and no one else because if the casino tells you to put your hands in the fire that it wouldn't burn you, and you did it a get burnt, will you put your hands in the fire again. Responsible gambling, means you should gamble with caution and don't gamble excessively but because you want to milk the casino, you didn't stick to their advise.

Gambling is limited to a certain age because they expect gamblers to be mature enough to take full responsibility for their actions. As much as you have started earning money, you should learn how to control how you use it. The disclaimer should be enough warning for people. Then the casino should also put in place other protective measures, like self-exclusion or self-ban.   

[Agbamoni]

The casino is only the platform for you to gamble; they do not influence what you do because you do it all by yourself. Also, at the end of the day, you can't blame the casino when you gamble irresponsibly, they will surely make their profit.

Yeah, at the same time, casinos need to play their role in making gamblers gamble responsibly. Including restrictions, polcies, Tos and KYC.

[Lamtel]

Is it really true that when casinos claim to protect players based on the idea of "responsible gambling", but in reality they are using this tool to shield themselves from gamblers legally? They claim that they have given the gamblers a chance not to become addict or lose money on their platform.

So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

Those casino's owners made their money through the gamblers, no two ways about it. The higher the stakes amount and loses, the higher their earnings. The responsible gambling your talking about here is just a means of them trying to say to the general public that they have made awareness, not really their mind, they dont really care about that, it just a mere statement. Ok, if they do care about such statement why are they increasing the staking amount.

They are happy when you lose, because they pay their  workers out of the money you and I lost to them. Am not criticizing against them because I do gamble at times, that is their business. At least every business man should expect a great profit.

Have you ever ask yourself why a lot of gambling sites and apps are coming up? every one now wants to indulge in building a gambling platform.

[iv4n]

So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

Why would you say something like that? It makes no sense...

Playing responsibly is not a design... It's up to us, and how we play! If we are responsible, we will not do things that can harm us in any way or our closest ones.

You can't blame casinos for your mistakes (irresponsibility). They offer what they offer... it's up to you whether you will use it or not, and more importantly, how you will use it.

[Creeper0]

The main responsibility of casinos is to warn gamblers and not to force them to gamble. If they have done their part, they will not be locked up by the law. When they are following the warnings correctly, your gambling is completely up to you. How long you gamble and how much money you lose is up to you. Just like the warning on the package of drugs, casinos can only warn you, even though there is a warning, drug addicts are taking drugs, gambling addicts are gambling. No one is forcing you or cheating you out of your money.

[Tigerheart3026]

casino platforms just showing so called disclaimer, but they never give chances to protect their users money,
they offers free bet, bonus bet, they do a lot of campaigning to make people more addicted to it,
how do you expect them to play a role in protecting you from gambling addiction?
it’s their business, they want to more profits to you, protection is depend on you, if you make responsible gambling.

[Churchillvv]

I could agree with you to an extent yet still argue it, so perhaps it could be true that they shift blame’s from the platform to individuals by saying gamble responsibly meanwhile they already know that gambling responsibly is a very rare occurrence in the live of real gamblers or chronic gamblers, so when they get in trouble the disclaimer can be used against them. However, arguably people or any one doing whatsoever should or is rightly aware of what they are doing because gambling is not for under age instead they are doing it with all consciousness so they are liable to handle whatever comes of it so claiming the casino is responsible for your misconduct is supposed to be deniable by the casino using the disclaimer.

[Text]

the tools are there but most platforms only do the bare minimum to say we gave you a choice & yeah for some people it almost normalises gambling like it’s fine as long as you’re responsible while everything around you is encouraging more bets. I think real responsibility would mean stronger friction, clearer loss tracking & less aggressive marketing especially for vulnerable players until then it does feel more like legal protection for casinos than genuine care for gamblers.

[7juju]

When someone advice you on a particular matter,it is left for you to accept it or reject the advice. The casino won't force you to go with their advice on gambling responsibly, what is important is that they have sent out a message in the form of disclaimer, whatever the gamblers decides afterwards it's entirely up to the gambler and not the casino. So I don't really agree with you that it's just a disguise from the casino end. But gamblers should know that whatever decision we make with those disclaimers, the casino will always make profits. So I don't see any reason why they will put up a disclaimer if they don't intend to protect the gamblers. For your own good they want you to gamble responsibly, but if you decide to do otherwise, it is for their own advantage.

[Davidvictorson]

So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

I like this topic and I have never taught about it like this. The first point I think to note is that the responsibility of gambling responsibly has never been in the hands of the casino but the players but humans being who we are that we can easily play the victim card and look for who to blame for our misfortune have been given the disclaimer by by casino letting them know that they should hold themselves accountable for gambling responsibly. They also put in a bunch of links to help those who are struggling with gambling addiction as well.

[aysha9853]

Casinos know very well how human psychology works, and their systems are designed to keep people playing a small warning or a self limit option doesn’t change that core behavior, at the end of the day, the burden is pushed onto the player if things go wrong, the platform can say they warned you that doesn’t mean they actually tried to stop the damage.

[silpersurfer]

Your statements and questions threw me off a bit at first, but on second thought, there is some truth to them. Whereas the idea of ‘responsible gambling’ sounds as if it was created to protect players, in reality, when applied most times it serves the casinos better leverage more legally.

By way of personal example, I once played an online game for quite a long time, and immediately after finishing warned to stop playing or take a break. In gambling, I hardly ever received the same type of warning when playing for too long. The warnings came when I was losing with messages like "Your balance is depleted please make another deposit." It gave the feeling that the interest wasn't on player protection but rather on the continuity of the game and platform profits. This made the term ‘responsible gambling’ sound more of a formality than an actual effort in responsibility toward players.

[uchegod-21]

Is it really true that when casinos claim to protect players based on the idea of "responsible gambling", but in reality they are using this tool to shield themselves from gamblers legally? They claim that they have given the gamblers a chance not to become addict or lose money on their platform.

So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

The casino owners being business people understand that gambling  can be both rewarding and dangerous. They know the risks involved and how gamblers can be impulsive. Their efforts towards reminding gamblers to gamble responsibly isn't genuine, they are only shifting some responsibilities and blames from themselves to the gamblers. The gamblers cannot hold the casinos responsible for making them lose alot of money because the casinos are going to be like "hey dude! We warned you"

So now, gamblers should protect themselves because no one can do that for them, not the Casino who wants to see them coming back for more.

[Doan9269]

Responsible gambling is not just a mere saying, but instead, what we have to understand by how everyone gambling is expected to behave and live a gamblers kind of life worthy of emulation, it's not just being said like that, it requires action and determination to choose between whom we want to become and how we wanted our own case to be, we can see several people with different approach to gambling and the consequences to all their decisions they have made up to settle with, left to us to also determine the kind of gambler we become, being a responsible one or not.

[EarnOnVictor]

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So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

How can it be the opposite when they actually stated the advice on their platform? Gambling responsibly is a mandatory legal advice/awareness, which is always found at the homepage of every casino. Such disclaimers are also found on every website/platform offering risky services/activities. So long as it is there, the company has done its part to warn their customers, and it's now left to the customers to utilize the advice or not. Even if casinos do not want you to play responsibility, they've issued the warning/advice. So, they are exonerated.

[M47AK16]

now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

Yeah, a business must be working in that way. They can only issue warning and guideline and the rest are lying on us, and they will never mind if we fail to follow those. When casinos are bothering our consent on responsible gambling, they never take any step regarding restricting our gambling hours. I mean, limiting our gambling hours must be a basic step toward encouraging responsible gambling.

Overall I feel like, most casinos are just concern about spreading awareness on responsible gambling but never taking any step for implementing the same. If they strictly implement any of responsible gambling, it will impact them negatively up to the level of losing their market share because already gambling industry is heavily competitive and every casino is just focusing on securing their market share.

[Cantsay]

Is it really true that when casinos claim to protect players based on the idea of "responsible gambling", but in reality they are using this tool to shield themselves from gamblers legally? They claim that they have given the gamblers a chance not to become addict or lose money on their platform.

So now responsibility is shifted away from the platform and onto the individual. And in a hindsight, "Play responsibly" is somewhat design to be opposite, as it could encourage us to play more?

It’s just a facade, because the same casino that preached responsible gambling are still the ones that go around enticing people and giving them unrealistic expectations about how gambling works.

I feel they just do it for business purposes and nothing more because if they were indeed really concerned they shouldn’t even have to wait for gamblers to initiate a self exclusion before they know that such a person is gambling irresponsibly, they have data and know when someone is going to the extreme with their gambling addiction and should be able to step up and do something or remind the user to get their shit together or face some sort of penalty for irresponsible gambling habit but instead they just sit idle and pray that gamblers increase their bankroll and lose it to them.