A lot has happened since our last update: On 1 January 2023, the responsibility for the entire gambling licensing process in Germany related to (online) gambling has been transferred to a newly formed “Joint Gambling Supervisory Authority”.
A lot has happened since our last update: On 1 January 2023, the responsibility for the entire gambling licensing process in Germany related to (online) gambling has been transferred to a newly formed “Joint Gambling Supervisory Authority”.
On July 1st, 2021, the State Treaty on the New Regulation of Gaming in Germany (State Treaty on Gaming 2021 - GlüStV 2021) came into force. Now the permission for an event of sports betting, online poker and virtual slot machine games is granted on application.
Loot boxes (this means virtual boxes) are like virtual items popular within online games. The background to the additional purchase of virtual items is the desire of many players to acquire equipment or skills and save time with it.