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Why land-based rules shaped the online ones
Stake caps, spin speeds and certification culture all arrived online from the machine halls. The inheritance explains several otherwise strange rules.
Land-based and retail
Casinos, betting shops, arcades and machine halls, and how their regulation shaped the rules now applied online.
The online industry inherited its engineering standards, its certification culture and much of its regulation from the land-based sector. Several of the constraints applied to online slots in Europe exist because machine regulation reached those questions decades earlier, and retail networks remain a significant acquisition channel in markets where advertising is restricted.