Public Gaming Magazine November-December 2015

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work. Other players will want to play in
the larger universe of players because the
liquidity will be higher, making the prize
pools bigger. Many of these issues just
need to be ironed out in the market-place.
Can we expect that the ingenuity of opera-
tors and game designers will come up with
lots of wild ideas that we aren’t even think-
ing about right now?
K. Mullally: They already are. In fact,
one of the most critical aspects of this
whole picture is to be able to implement
whatever risk-control structures that the
regulators develop within a commer-
cially reasonable timeframe. Commercial
viability depends on getting to market
quickly, so GLI’s mission is to eliminate
bottlenecks when it comes to risk-control
structures and approval processes. GLI has
geared up to make sure we have the band-
width to move new products through the
pipeline quickly. The process will be thor-
ough, accurate and effective, but speed
and efficiency are also priorities.
That’ should be a most interesting challenge.
We can’t predict the future, but we can ex-
pect that it is at least possible that growth in
new game categories like skill-based could
be explosive.
K. Mullally: GLI’s role is two-fold.
One, we apply our technical expertise to
arm regulators with all the information
they need to make policy decisions. Then,
once those policy decisions are made,
GLI provides a very efficient process for
the manufacturers to be able to demon-
strate compliance.
And yes, the evidence suggests that
skill-based games will be very popular.
We can see the popularity of skill-based
games in the non-monitized world or the
semi-monitized world. We can expect
that skill-based games that add a wager-
ing component will also be popular. GLI’s
clients are actively working to understand
the risk-control requirements and how to
implement them.
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