Slot machines account for an enormous chunk of most casinos’ income, and that grew to become obvious over the weekend after an Australian gaming firm was pressured to close down all of its slot machines and digital desk video games.
Star Leisure, which operates casinos in Sydney, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast, was nonetheless left with out slot operations this week after a glitch turned up within the firm’s programs as a part of an improve. The pc improve was in preparation to make cashless gaming potential on the properties, which revealed system efficiency points.
“The choice was taken by The Star to make sure compliance with related rules and to take care of the corporate’s dedication to safer playing procedures,” the corporate learn in a press release. “The Star is working intently with its exterior supplier Konami to handle the operational points as quickly as potential and can present an replace as soon as operations return to regular.
“Treasury Brisbane, The Star Gold Coast and The Star Sydney stay open with desk video games, eating places, bars, and leisure accessible.”
The corporate hasn’t provided an replace since Saturday and there’s no timeline on when the corporate’s slot operations may be again on-line. The shutdown is anticipated to have a significant impression on firm revenues and Star’s inventory value initially fell about 2.5% on information of the shutdowns, dropping the corporate’s market capitalization by $40 million.
The corporate hasn’t been a goal of hacking like that encountered by MGM Resorts within the U.S. final yr. That concern left the corporate’s pc programs shut down for a number of months and value the corporate an estimated $100 million.
Star has confronted different struggles in current months together with an investigation by gaming regulators into The Star On line casino in Sydney. The New South Wales Impartial On line casino Fee (NICC) has been investigating the property after a earlier report on the property in September 2022 alleged that the on line casino had “critical governance, threat administration, and cultural failures.”
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