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Online Casino Games Innovation and Stagnation
18 Jun 2006
When thinking about online casino sites and the games that are on them, it is important to remember that while there are a lot of online casinos out there, the number of games – while large – is nothing compared to the number of other computer games in existence. And the innovation that might once have gone into online casino games just isn’t there anymore, with new “darts” and “bowling” games attempting to butt into the world of craps, slots and poker. Will they be successful? Maybe. But are they worthy of being called “casino-style” gambling games? No.
What does this branching out into non-traditional gambling games mean for the overall online casino industry? Is new blood in the development arena needed to get the online casinos industry and its games back on track to a truly competitive stance, or have online gambling software developers exhausted their creativity for the moment as the industry is on a steady growth instead of the sort of “pioneer boomtown” that online gambling could once be referred to as?
We cannot really tell right now whether online casinos have exhausted their creativity, but given the human tendency to create, create, create, we could only be in a slump. The online casino industry doesn’t show signs of stopping its growth, but neither does it show signs that its growth is as meteorically fast as it was once considered. And so, this must be taken into account when thinking about the kinds of games the online casino industry produces and the kinds of games the online casinos software providers might be able to produce in the future.
