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IGCE Europe Key to Online Gaming Industry
November 5-7 Fitzpatrick Castle / Dublin Ireland
Is there a crisis in the gaming industry? Of course there isn't, what a ridiculous suggestion! How can an industry that has produced more tax dollars over the past five years or more offering more prize money at a turn of a card than at any other time in its history, ever be in crisis?
But the truth is there is a certain apprehension about the whole industry that is making share holders, board members and stock holders of these companies extremely nervous. The downturn in recent weeks due to the pivotal US fraud cases has rocked the foundations of the US gaming industry, which up until then looked vibrant and comfortable.
How can it be that the US gaming industry is suffering such a confidence crisis? As more companies either pull out of the US or just not invest, creating waves of apprehension, so that marketing, advertising and promotional budgets are either squashed or are frozen, some permanently.
Could this be start of a new gaming recession, or dare we say depression?
That's why the call for action is urgent. The IGCE conference in Dublin from 5-7th November has come at the right time, because the key speakers lined up to participate at this event, may well now have to re-examine their prepared speeches and rewrite them to focus on the wider issues of the gaming industry, namely the change from off to online gambling in poker, bingo, and skill games.
There is no doubt that the change from games of chance to those of skill based games such a backgammon has put a new slant on the industry, with more companies reassessing their strategy to include backgammon and other skill based games.
One of the influences behind this change in direction has been the betting angle that backgammon now offers which only emphasizes the dramatic impact that the game has conjured up in the past two years, changing from what can be best described as a family board game to a real time gaming experience.
The introduction of massive pots and big prize money tournaments has fueled the desire to play the game. Whilst not yet on the same level as Poker, backgammon continues to draw in the punters. Already there's a One Million Backgammon prize tournament which starts in January 2007. How long will it be before that prize money rises to five or six million?
These are all issues that will doubtless be raised at the IGCE Conference in Dublin, in what is certain to be a packed agenda of topics and subjects to debate and to try and resolve. Above all the conference has to stem the tide of pessimism about the industry, It can no longer afford to just throw dollars to keep punters happy, there must be a concerted effort by all parties to put the industry back on its feet restoring confidence and maintaining strength in its character, these include steps in compliance and regulatory affairs which must be transparent and available.
The gaming industry has for too long left things to chance, as evidenced by the recent fraud cases, it must now take the necessary action to ensure that its books and its statistics are right and are not just clean, but squeaky clean.
Perhaps Dublin is the new broom that the industry needs.
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