Ending Ambiguous Activity
The online casino gambling industry is still growing and maturing and there are
near daily developments in the industry related to everything from cutting edge
new technologies to new practices to maintain an ethical standard in the
industry. Microgaming stands at the top of the industry in terms of software
development companies. The company has the respect of online casinos and
gamblers alike and has an impeccable reputation. And as a leader in the
industry, Microgaming has just announced that the company no longer supports
data mining throughout the company and all of its licensed products.
Data Mining reports have been standard issue for a lot of the online casinos and
software development companies. Specifically, these reports measure and collect
vast amounts of information about all of the game play occurring on the sites.
Hand histories, for example, are no longer being used as they were intended and
are being used to give a competitive advantage to some gamblers at the poker
tables. A big concern, in addition to the use of this mined information, has
also been the fact that third party software was used to mine the data and
analyze the results. Third party control over parts of any online casino
gambling company are not really well received after well publicized debacles
like the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet gambling scams.
Microgaming plans to be a leader in this new move to rid the online casinos of
data mining technology and has made a strong promise to its gamblers that this
type of software has been ended immediately and with full effect across all of
the company’s software and licensed gambling sites. |