Topic: Should Casinos Sponsor Sites That Deals With Gambling Addiction - page 2. (Read 469 times)

Well, actually this would be a great idea for a caisno to show his face and oppose doing better things, this would undoubtedly be the best option, however people can see it from another point of view, because some who don't know what it's like In reality, they can say that the casinos are to blame for gambling addiction, others understand that those who are addicted to gambling are their own fault, and the casino that cooperates with these Organizations will Obviously have things Differently for them. because when they see others who Cooperate with these organizations it can give the impression that they are well Committed and that they can make a difference and that it is an honest casino and that it can be at the level of doing things well, and if a particular casino does it they will do it others, but only with the exception of doing things for what someone else is doing , these things can happen , but it is up to them if they want to do them.

For me, as far as I am Concerned , I think it is a great option to do it, otherwise I think that if they do it just to gain points over others, it is a hidden marketing strategy that can be possible, in other words, it is not acceptable. Furthermore, they can do it and thus take a much higher rate in the future and it is in the true range of doing things better, if I were the Owner of a casino I would do it, but I would do it disinterestedly without Publishing it, I think it would have more merit and whoever discovers it, already knows that they have done it only for the best intention of all, and if we go to this type of things, then all casinos must be committed to the issues of addiction, with helping and being as responsible as possible with this matter, because addiction is something that can affect and is Affecting many at this moment, and the idea is that people will only get rid of this problem, as long as in the end it is What is Interesting is that people at the end of the day leave happy After Spending the day and not with problems.

Depends on how they want their marketing strategy to work.

This is a double-edged sword for the casino who will look to sponsor organizations that helps people with gambling addiction. One, they might come off as hypocrites and people will stop supporting them. You can't really talk peace and have a gun armed and cocked, ready to shoot at any moment's notice. Two, people will regard them as someone who just makes money off cleanly and are not, in any way, intentionally rob people's money by flinging them into the wrong direction. They can be viewed as an entity who is just running a business which happens to cause addiction to people, and so they 'help' in the good cause by sponsoring organizations that actually help these afflicted individuals.

No matter which direction the casino takes, they will still make money at the end of the day, though through sponsoring these organizations, they have a chance to be regarded in a positive way rather than just sitting on the sidelines and passively taking people's money off of their pockets.

I think casinos should not be compelled to do such but be allowed to do such at free will because they are just a business organisation responsible for rendering of services to their consumers and the gamblers are liable for their own act. Ii f a gambler chooses to get addicted that is their own cup of tea and the casino should not be brought into it. Every individual is matured enough to make or take their own decisions and nobody is forced to do so. That is why it is advised that from the age of 18 and above can gamble because at that age anyone gambling is a matured adult that knows his or her right. So therefore, I see no reasons why casinos should be held to such ransom of sponsoring a site that deals with gambling addiction. Although they make benefits from addicted gamblers but that does not mean they should compelled to do so after all gamblers are old enough to know when to call it a day when gambling rather than gambling away their life at casinos.

I don't think that the casino obligation and I've never heard of or seen casino that has program like that to help gambling addicts.
First of all, what I will say is that casinos were established to do business and make money by providing various games or bets for gamblers, so any risks or impacts from gambling are not the responsibility of the casino.
Whether the gambler is addicted or goes bankrupt, these are all risks that the gambler must accept and must resolve themselves the casino does not need to pay or give anything as form of appreciation or anything just because the gambler has spent lot of money.

But still in my opinion, this is not an obligation and there is no need to sponsor something like that because it would also be in vain because efforts to recover from gambling addiction can only be successful with the attitude of the gambler himself, whether he is truly enthusiastic about recovering or not.

It should not be mandated but voluntary on the part of the casino, some casino believes that the responsibility to remain a responsible gambler is on the gambler, they have done their part by installing in their system that flags account that is verified to be gambling irresponsibly and they also added a self-exclusion feature for those who have a hard time controlling their urge.
With these two features, they believe that they have done their part in the gambling community, to help their players to cope with their addiction.

The casino did not have a gun to your head and forced you to gamble. You choosed to gamble and if along the way you get addicted, it's your sole responsibility to fix yourself. It's not the obligation of the casino and that doesn't mean they cannot sponsor the treatment of gamblers in rehabs, they can but it should be at their own freewill.

Though, I don't really see the reason why they've to be cleaning up addicted gamblers when they will be sending others to the same hole. Maybe it's another way of saying that they care about their players.

I have never seen anything that requires a gambling platform or a casino to sponsor or fund gambling addiction but still there are some casino and online gambling platforms who do. They may sponsor or even provide seminars as how gambling addiction can affect a person but still it's really not that effective as these casinos only advertised them as a initiative to prove their gamblers that they care to attract more gambler.

Yes, it's not even mandatory to sponsor it because that would definitely conflict with the vision and mission of the casino owner who of course prefers many addicts to get their money all the time, after all the casino will not have money apart from these addicts, believe me it is the addicts who provide it. money to the casino so how can the casino sponsor a site that could possibly help cure gambling addicts to leave the casino and stop gambling.

I think it will be hard to accept but here is the fact that casinos will go bankrupt if many addicts recover from their addiction then they leave gambling then who will play in casinos, it will sound strange, but it all comes back to the awareness of casino owners maybe they want to reduce it a little little by little but certainly not many casinos will want to do it or fund it as sponsors.

Hmm, I don't know... It seems so difficult. There is also the language barrier. Online casinos have customers from many different countries and many of those gamblers can speak only on their native languages. English is a well known universal language and could be used to treat all addicted through Zoom and Skype meetings, however we have this issue that many people don't have a foreigner language. And it must be really expensive to hire a translator for the different dialects of the world.

It's understandable there is a concern about helping addicted gamblers, but I think it can be done more efficiently locally, through measures introduced by the local governmemts and institutions on each country.

First of all, it helps related addiction, and they are supposed to have one due to the regulations.

For example, toll-free service is provided by the government itself and the number can be found on the packets themselves and in some countries it is mandatory to have a picture of cancer but you know that the efficiency of such is zero and no one is utilizing those services in my experience.

That is also nice for marketing purpose, it's telling the society; "we don't want to rob you, we just want to provide a place to have fun". in business, spending money on something not directly related to the business is not always considered as a loss, it's also an investment. big business need to have good sentiment from public, especially an already unlikeable business.

Whether or not it is mandatory to sponsor it, I don't know if there are regulations that require it, but so far I have never heard that there are regulations that require it, but maybe in countries that legalize gambling it could be, but in my opinion it is just an initiative of the casino's concern to reduce gambling addiction, because it is very alarming if you look at the statistics of gambling addiction and it is also very sad if someone is addicted to gambling.

As for requiring it, I think it's just a concern of the gambling platform if indeed they want to sponsor it so that it can run well and can deal with the problem of gambling addiction.

It does not. Even the hotlines where you could just talk to a rehabilitaion dude, I dont think that is helpful enough to a gambling addict.

Voluntary. I actually wanted them to mandate this kind of stuff about the gambling addiction. They are making loads of money so why not just share them.
About the receivable funds that gambling site's will give, it may be difficult to do it because of their international business but there is always a solution for this. Pick an international gambling addicts helper too, I bet there are organizations like this.
The only problem I could see when it comes to physically helping is if these international organizations lack offices on every country. But there is also a solution to that. Meetings on Zoom or Skype. It might not work one on one with the organization but they have higher chance to help them when gambling addicts speaks to another for a change. I mean who knows, other addicts (alcohol, sex) might already have been helping them this way. Talking to someone who have the same experiences might become their mentor instead of just reading books/listening one on one that is boring in this era.

That is not the kind of thing they should be enforced to, but voluntary do, because they think it's an important contribution for society and a portion of their customers who may develop an addiction. Let it up to each casino to decide and you will see if they really care about this issue.

Moreover, an enforcement of this rule would be hard to put in practice, since we are talking about worldwide gamblers playing at online casinos. How such funds would be invested? In which countries? How would the efficiency of the treatment reach gamblers from different regions in real time and at same time?

I think a virtual treatment for addiction doesn't have the same impact of a physical one.

This might seem so nice for academic purposes only but in reality, they might not be committed to such project. They might consider the capital burden it will be on them and marry it with the benefit to their business and this will make them abandon such project. Casinos are not struggling to appear good before the government because they already got licenses and doing their business within the dictates of the law.

On the other hand, they will quickly reference their terms and conditions that already cover things like this even though people hardly read these terms and conditions when registering.

It's good for the casino to do it. Warms the image, helps get green lights from the government, gives the casino something to brag about in ads, and of course keeps the community healthy. That's of course as long as we believe the sites work, because personally I think they don't. Support groups might be a bit better.


The way I always understood addiction is that an addict will continue to struggle and look for ways to satisfy his needs, even at the expense of work, family, friends, health, and all the rest you can think of.
If they lose money to the point of starvation, when they finally get food, they'll again try to satisfy addiction. Having an addict as a client may statistically be more profitable than having a casual gambler.

Casinos are a legal business, they are licensed and have clear terms of service about the age at which people are allowed to create accounts, which in this case are people over 18 years of age, so according to government laws, a person of greater age of age (18 years old) can now think on their own and know what is right and what is wrong and what they should and should not do. Therefore, casinos should not keep talking about gambling addiction on their website, they should not keep adding help sites for gambling addicts. I commented about this in another thread, and I'll repeat it once again

These sites that say they help gambling addicts are not places that will cure gambling addicts, an addict needs help in the real world and not on the internet, he needs a doctor in the real world and he needs to be hospitalized in places appropriate, there is no way for an addict to kick the gambling habit as long as he continues to use a telephone, computer or any other object that allows him to access the internet, so it makes no sense for people addicted to gambling to look for these internet sites to heal

Instead of going to hospitals in the real world and seeking help from doctors in the real world, looking for help on the internet, that honestly doesn't make sense. the addicted person will have a phone, so what will stop them from entering the online casino if they are getting treatment on these internet sites? What's most shocking is that I read a few days ago on a thread on a website that helps gambling addicts, that to cure addiction they first make people happy, because those who are happy don't become addicted. I was shocked by such words

This is only my opinion. But I believe it would be reasonable for casinos to sponsor or show webpages/organizations/places for people to recover from gambling addiction, but only to those individual gamblers who had opted into self-exclusion in the same casino, or for those gamblers who are willing to see that kind of popups in the interface of the casino.
I would that that would be a important distinction, because I am sure not all gamblers would be happy to see that kind of messages and sponsorships around, it may trigger some negative feelings on them which may lead them to quit using that specific casino.

You just say what is in my mind. These casinos are just providing a service that some people choose to use. It's up to individuals to make responsible decisions about their gambling habits and casinos are not responsible for their behavior. People are responsible for their own actions and it's not the job of businesses to try to control or influence those actions. They don't force people to gamble and they provide information about responsible gambling. It's up to individuals to make the decision to gamble or not and to take responsibility for their own actions. Every casino has always advised customers to gamble responsibly and you we should not expect them to do more than that unless we want their business to go down. I know addiction is a dangerous thing and awareness needs to be created about it but this should not be the responsibility of casinos. If one heed to the warning and gamble responsible, they won't be addicted.

In some cases they already do. Like in Finland, income of government monopoly casinos are directed all kinds charity programs or in other way important programs.
So i guess it depends on where you live, as i am aware that we are not exception. But from what i've gathered, these things usually start from political pressure and legistlations. Like the self-exclusion option that's mandatory in all casinos.

I saw someone saying here that casinos benefit from gambling addictions so they don't want to sponsor those sites. I don't see it that way.

Casinos benefit from steady income. Addiction can ruin lifes and budgets to the point, that at some point those people won't be giving any income.
In fact they could have an opposite effect as they act as a warning and could turn and speak against gambling.

I don't have any data about this but my gut feeling is that majority of gamblers aren't addicts, that can't control their urges. Majority of them have steady income, which is the reason they can provide steady income. Versus someone who has ruined his finances and life because of addiction. Those people aren't helping casinos, so i don't think casinos want people to get severely addicted.

Some level of addiction however is needed in capitalistic society. Everyone wants customers to come back.