5 games that lose a collective lawsuit; Waste in paying 25 million dollars

5 games were requested to pay 24.9 million dollars as compensation for players in Washington State.

The ruling is the result of a lawsuit claimed that the company manages illegal gambling games and follows a court ruling from 2024 and found that its social model that violated the laws of gambling in Washington state.

This is the ruling of the first -class lawsuit against the social casino operator via the Internet and follows other settlements in the industry with batches exceeding 650 million dollars.

Social casinos provide digital gambling machines and casino games in exchange for buying virtual chips players with real money.

He argued that although these virtual chips have no cash value, they were working as real drivers because the players were required to purchase more to follow up. The court found in favor of the lawsuit, which determines a new legal precedent in Washington State.

HIGH 5 Games in Washington lost approximately $ 18 million, and the jury granted $ 7 million as legal compensation. The main evidence indicated during the experiment that 5 high games targeted high spending users and displayed a user struggling through gambling addiction incentives to continue playing.

This referee is the latest in a series of settlements in similar cases in which social casinos were forced to pay $ 650 million for players who lost their money in their games. Unlike other cases, Hight 5 Games chose to transfer the case to court instead of settlement.

Large technology companies such as Amazon, Meta, Google and Apple can then be investigated. Prosecutors’ lawyers argue that they are working as financial mediums that treat payments and take a percentage of each treatment. Todd Logan, partner at Edlson PC, the company that represents the prosecutors, suggested that Big Tech is the exchange of the market and this ruling is just the beginning.