Consultation response
Online games design and reverse withdrawals
Consultation response for online games design and reverse withdrawals and proposed changes to the design of online slots.
Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Summary of responses
- - Introduction
- - Defining online slots within the Remote Technical Standards
- - Prohibiting multiple slot games
- - Introducing speed of play limits
- - Prohibiting player-led “spin stop” features
- - Prohibiting auto-play functionality for online slots
- - Prohibiting effects that give the illusion of “false wins”
- - Display of net position and time spent
- Evaluation of changes to slots games
- Prohibition of reverse withdrawals for all remote operators
- Testing
- Annex 1 – Summary of changes to RTS
- Annex 2 - Consumer research into auto-play
- Annex 3 – List of consultation responses
Deposits prior to the introduction of the ban
- Metric
- Gamblers don’t make a large credit card deposit prior to the ban’s introduction
- Concern
- In the build-up to the ban’s introduction, gamblers could have made large deposits to their accounts using credit cards which would have reduced the early efficacy of the ban
- Assessment
- We have found no evidence to suggest that large credit card deposits were made prior to the ban’s introduction
A major high street bank has informed us that, amongst those that used a credit card to gamble, there was no identifiable shift in spend behaviour towards ATM withdrawals or money transfers in the build-up to, or subsequent to, the implementation of the credit card gambling ban.
A significant decrease in ATM use was observed during March 2020, which is very likely to have been a consequence of the spread of Covid-19 during that time.
Last updated: 2 November 2021
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