[0] Source: I'm a former dev at an NFT/F2P game studio owned by a large slot machine maker.
I appreciate the accurate framing here.
> NFT/F2P game studio owned by a large slot machine maker
I wonder how common this is. I also wonder about the impact of sports betting apps, which seem to be everywhere.
The point of the story was that casinos like to make their money from big spenders losing big chunks of money. So much so that it affects decisions they make about which acts to book.
But I think you have to think of whales as high-bankrolled foreign tourists who want the opportunity to see big international superstars. (Celine Dion "gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest," Wikipedia points out, and has sung "in several other languages including Japanese, Italian, German, Mandarin, Spanish, and Neapolitan...")