Poker machines are designed to celebrate wins but stay silent on losses. A new project aims to disrupt that psychological design by introducing a simple losing sound – and to push for legislative reform.
And if you want the issue to be debated in parliament you can sign a petition linked in the article.
That sounds like a brilliant idea, simple, elegant, cheap to implement and effective.
Thank you for sharing this link, the gambling industry will desperately try to kill the initiative, because they know it will be a financial disaster.
But that just means that it absolutely needs to be implemented.
If implemented, I see two future scenarios, both less bad than what we have now:
The sound is implemented in the machine, no other change is made, this causes the desired effect and makes people less prone to gamble.
The sound is implemented, but the machines are modified to play it fewer times, they set less outright losses, and increase the chance of winning back your money for another go, probably with a small win sound, to drown out the loss sound, to do this the larger payouts are reduced.
Both of these options reduce the incentive to gamble.
That sounds like a brilliant idea, simple, elegant, cheap to implement and effective.
Thank you for sharing this link, the gambling industry will desperately try to kill the initiative, because they know it will be a financial disaster.
But that just means that it absolutely needs to be implemented.
If implemented, I see two future scenarios, both less bad than what we have now:
Both of these options reduce the incentive to gamble.