Because gambling is controlled by state monopoly except few casinos. As such, remember that the house always wins, it serves the monopolys' purposes to have as large coverage as possible to make gambling addiction as widespread as possible. Yeah, slot machines are in pretty much every single convinience store and kiosk around here. Shopping malls might have 5 or even more stores with multiple slot machines in each of them. People seem to think that the machines don't need any regulation because it's government-run company and all profits go to charity. International Game Technology PLC, formerly Gtech S.p.A. And Lottomatica S.p.A., is a multinational gaming company that produces slot machines and other gaming technology.

The IGSA develops Standards that increase efficiencies, decrease barriers to entry, and provide enhanced data access and transparency. These Standards benefit the entire Gaming Industry including suppliers, operators and regulators.

Suppliers benefit through Standardized interfaces that seek to eliminate one-off proprietary interfaces, driving interoperability, reducing interface time and cost, and increasing access to their products.

Operators benefit by getting access to more gaming content and faster, by getting greater access to data which may reduce regulatory risk while increasing revenues and decreasing costs.

Regulators benefit by getting access to all available data directly from the gaming source, from gaming systems or from regulatory owned monitoring systems. This level of data transparency enables better regulatory oversight for the detection of money laundering, protection of vulnerable players and ensuring gaming is occurring fairly.

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These and many other benefits are delivered via IGSA Standards such as the Game to System (G2S) Standard for land-based operations, the Third-party Interface (TPI) for online operations and the Regulatory Reporting Interface (RRI) that supports all types of gaming activity.

For land-based operations, Standards such as the Game to system (G2S) protocol can pull information from the slot machine’s secondary communication or network port without any interference to the existing, regulatory required, system of record.

IGSA Standards are now mandated by Regulatory requirement or Legislative law, in Countries, Provinces and States around the world, which means suppliers that sell products in those places have implemented those Standards. Even if they are not mandated by the jurisdiction, the Standards are available to you if you ask for them.

Want to learn more? Check out the “Did you know?” tab and learn what else you can do with IGSA Standards!

• Practically every slot machine has multiple communication ports allowing multiple systems to be connected and gather information.
• You can develop or buy an existing simple communication application to gather data elements that your CMS today does not capture. This will allow you to send that data to off-the-shelf Business Intelligence, Visualization and other data analytical applications.
• You can choose to subscribe to specific meters and events needed by your marketing system, making it much more efficient then just getting everything?
• You can transmit this marketing data from your newer slot machines without needing to re-cable your slot floor?
• Using IGSA standards, your IT team can manage, maintain the security and integrity of the slot network using the same tools that they use to manage their existing back-of-house local and wide-area networks?
• Regulators are asking for IGSA standards to ensure that slot machines are running valid, approved software.
  The most reliable of these are online slot machines with bitcoin (BTC) payment method, they undergo a special certification procedure.
• You can use the same simple communication application to understand; in real-time what each of your slot machines is comprised of, both hardware and software, including such details as vendor, product model, release version, and serial numbers.
• Your EGMs can provide you with full information on the personality and configuration of every connected EGM, making identifying incorrect configurations or revoked software much more efficient and accurate?

All of this functionality is already available and in use. Where? Casinos in the US (Las Vegas), Canada (New Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia), Australia (New South Wales) Europe (Austria, Finland, Greece, Poland), are all getting access to this functionality on slot machines provided by the major manufacturers. You too can have this!

The International Gaming Standards Associations (IGSA) Game to System (G2S) Standard makes this possible.

The International Gaming Standards Association (IGSA) has worked with several of our members that have implemented G2S on their casino floors to provide case studies of problems that have come up and how those problems have been solved.

• The Canadian Experience - an overview of how Canadian operators took steps to solve their joint problems thru combined effort as members of IGSA.
• The Intralot Implementation - IGSA member Intralot deploys the G2S protocol in Ohio and Australia.
• The Loto-Quebec Implementation - IGSA member Loto-Quebec uses G2S to offer new multimedia player experience.

IGSA offers a variety of membership levels to fit every budget. For a full review of the various benefits and levels of membership, please look here.

IGSA offers implementation assistance, in addition to personalized and in-depth training to operators upon request. IGSA staff is happy to answer questions during implementation and/or face-to-face training at your premises, for training for any of our standards. For more information, contact IGSA.

IGSA has done an in-depth comparison of the services that Operators could provide their customers with the installation of open standard G2S based slot machines vs. proprietary SAS based slot machines. Download the article here.

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Among the other measures, it suggested that licensing private operators – something the country’s gambling monopoly Veikkaus is strongly against – may be a viable measure to enhance consumer protection. This, it noted, would be overlooked in favour of efforts to force offshore operators from the market.

The report from the Harm Assessment Group, which was formed through the country’s 2001 Lottery Act to make recommendations on measures to minimise gambling problems, is broken into two sections.

The first, written by the group itself, focuses on measures that could be taken to tighten existing controls, while the second, written by University of Helsinki researchers Tuulia Lerkkanen and Virve Marionneau, provides a comparison with other regulated gambling markets.

The report concludes that the availability and accessibility of slots leads to problems, something that would be tackled to some extent by Veikkaus’ efforts to reduce the number of machines in operation by 8,000 by the end of 2020. Currently, it noted, only Denmark has more machines per person than Finland.

However, responsible gambling efforts are being impacted by long opening hours, the report concluded. Currently slots not hosted in Veikkaus’ venues are operational 24 hours a day, while the operator’s Feel Vegas arcades are open until 3am.

This contrasts with the likes of Norway, where machines go offline at midnight, and Denmark, which requires all gaming halls to be shut at this time.

However, a further issue with accessibility is caused by the fact that at present there are no restrictions on where slot machines can be located. This means they can be found in any licensed premises, something the report recommends be addressed by either removing all decentralised devices from circulation or limiting them to Veikkaus-operated venues.

Key to reducing the accessibility of slots was a complete ban on marketing the products. This should be complemented by a risk profile analysis of all machines, which in turn would allow them to display warnings about the potential negative effects to customers.

As mentioned above, online harm reduction measures had to take into account the offshore market, the report said. While this could be addressed by some form of licensing, which would give the authorities greater oversight of customer activity, it was more likely to be addressed by new measures to block unlicensed operators’ access to Finnish consumers.

The examination of other markets’ responsible gambling safeguards saw a centralised self-exclusion database highlighted as a way to create further visibility of customer activity. This would be aided by mandatory ID verification, something Veikkaus is piloting this month, ahead of a full roll-out in 2021.

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“Authentication is not in itself a means of controlling gaming, but when implemented responsibly, it is possible to support the control of gaming, for example by monitoring blocks and giving the player feedback,” the report explained.

Finally, mandatory limits were also highlighted as being potentially effective. This is already in effect, with a reduced €500 limit in place for online games such as slots and bingo until 2021. However it could be expanded to other forms of gambling, the report suggested, provided the limits were applied in a uniform fashion, and still allowed people to gamble reasonable sums.

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The report has been compiled as the Finnish government works on changes to the Lotteries Act, through which it will make identification controls mandatory for slot machines from 2023. Veikkaus has already called for this to be brought into effect earlier.