Twitch will ban game streams as early as October, but there are exceptions

Casino streams on Twitch should finally be a little more restrained.

Casino and gaming streams are a problem, and Twitch is finally stepping up to fix it. To that end, some of the biggest gambling sites are to be banned altogether from October. They can then neither be advertised and broadcast nor serve as a sponsor for streamers. But the new regulations have exceptions and already suggest that they can most likely be easily circumvented.

Twitch bans some of the biggest gaming sites, and soon

That’s what it’s about : Gambling can be addictive and lead to bankruptcy. That’s why the many casino streams that are lucrative for streamers fall into the “highly questionable” to “harmful” category. After mounting pressure (more on that below), Twitch is now announcing new regulations aimed at banning many well-known and prominent sites from the streaming platform.

What exactly is prohibited? Twitch’s statement states that it will prohibit the streaming of any website that contains slots, roulette, or dice games and that is not licensed in the United States (or other jurisdiction offering protection adequate from consumers).

The pages are explicitly mentioned Stake.com, Rollbit.com, Duelbits.com and Roobet.com. As in the case of Stake.com, they are well-known sponsors of even better-known streamers, such as xQc. The latter has repeatedly stated that he had a huge gambling problem and was addicted.

When is the ban? Changes to the Twitch rulebook are set to go into effect on October 18.

You can read the full Twitch statement here:

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Game streams on Twitch: poker, sports betting and more are still allowed

Many, many exceptions: In the wake of announcing a ban on certain sites and forms of gambling, Twitch explains what is still allowed:

• sports betting
• fantasy sport
• poker

as holding back other forms of gambling, which have been gaining popularity on Twitch lately. For example, opening Pokémon card packs or FIFA Ultimate Team packs remains legal. Scratch cards, lottery tickets, or the entire CS:GO skins market are probably still no problem – at least from a Twitch regulatory perspective.

Twitch seems to be responding to massive pressure with innovation

The ban in reaction? We may owe the innovations in the Twitch ruleset to the campaign of some streamers, among others. They recently called for exactly that, loudly and with a lot of public support: a ban on gaming streams on Twitch, especially when it comes to the slots category and big sponsors.

Pokimane and Mizkif in particular have been speaking out publicly against casino streams for some time. Now they could have achieved at least partial success and are therefore happy about it. For example, Pokimane tweeted that tweets, pressure and public attention made the difference.

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With all the joy of these little advancements, there is of course a bland aftertaste. The ongoing issues with hate raids on Twitch, queer hostility and racism towards streamers and their communities have been and are being exposed with far less publicity and enthusiasm – as a result, the Amazon corporation is doing little or nothing about it. topic.

What do you think of casino and gaming streams on Twitch? What do you think of the new regulations?