Setting up a good and successful online casino in Canada has not been a prospering venture. This can be said based on the downfall seen in Canada’s earlier casino ventures. PlayNow in British Columbia was their last effort at setting up an online casino and that was anything but a complete disaster. Now that Loto-Quebec has decided to launch another online casino site, the cynicism on the part of the people who like to gamble online is something understandable.
This is not one of those situations where a small incident is being played up and you find that in the end a mountain has been made of a small little molehill. The mistake, gross mismanagement, or miscalculation, as a result of which the Canadian government’s online casino sunk, was no small deal. It was no “technical failure” either. The imaginative ones among you should know that nobody hacked into their mainframe either. The problem that came up after the casino site went online was that it was displaying players’ information to other players. Result being that they had to shut down the site the same day it opened. This is nothing but a serious design flaw and requires proper consideration. This was no fluke accident. So yes, people will be pretty chary about gambling on an online casino set up by the Canadian government seeing the precedent. The worst part is that they have not even given it time to blow over. People still remember the fiasco.
Loto-Quebec plans to launch a brand-new online gambling site. The new online casino actually has a very noble aim. Its aim is to give a far more secure environment in which the residents of Quebec can safely gamble online. It is a noble intent but is very ironical too, as last time they seemed to have no security whatsoever. The noble intent is also twofold it also wants to ensure that no underage gambling takes place. That is all very good, but that is just one site on entire World Wide Web. The underage people are getting pretty intelligent, and surely they can look up some alternate online casinos.
Although some may take this to be a very sharp-tongued diatribe or tirade, you must understand that online casinos are a tough nut to crack. Even the best of them get baffled by the intricacies involved in the entire process. Therefore, it would have just been a tad wiser to hold the horses, think things through, and then go ahead with something new. But, they will not do this. And with the fresh memory of their last attempt, this new gambling website just may not find any takers.
As far as this online casino is concerned, people have to see whether it survives or not, or how long it lasts.