Novomatic - the gaming manufacturer of popular online and landbased slots such as Book of Ra, Lucky Lady's Charm and Sizzling Hot - has just released its results for the first 6 months of 2016. The turnover in the first half of 2016 was €1.1 billion, an increase of 10.8% compared to the same period last year. Gaming machines accounted for the largest gains with an 11.8% increase; and t[...] Read more » Record Turnover For 'Book Of Ra'-Creators
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 7371
This is an amazing amount of money to be turned over. 1.1 billion in just six months is quite staggering and these slot games are really taking over at the present. I wish i had invented one of these games!!
I am collecting my strong, manly crocodile tears in a beer cup to show the owners and shareholders of Novomatic that how much I am concerned about their pre-tax revenue showed almost five percent decline compared to the previous year. I am Cat Steven's Sad Lisa tonight.
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 2219
A really big turnover for only 6 month. It seems, there are a lot of gamblers at the slot machines. Slots are boring in my opinion and this Kind of gaming includes only luck. I prefer poker and Sport betting
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 47 (F)
Posts: 14136
Some more info here, to show us how much money there is in the gaming industry. And in this kind of business i believe, it must be the easiest for tax evasion, especially when it comes for online revenue. Almost 11% increase in half a year, is impressive.
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 10090
it never seize to amaze me how much money is being gambled away by the degens all around the world on a regular basis, either people are totally stupid or they are totally stupid. just one of the two. billions of dollaros change hands, with the usual direction- from the poor to the rich. stupidity cannot be cured.
Funny part about this is people will keep playing slot machines even if it's easy to do some research and understand that investing your money in just about anything else is a better investment... lol
Gambling has been part of human history for hundreds or even thousands of years though. I doubt it's gonna change anytime soon. We don't evolve fast enough
Joined: Mar '14
Location: Japan
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 8946
That's a serious amount of money. I did a little research and learned that Novomatic mainly designs and manufactures electronic betting machines, such as slot machines, video poker machines, video lottery terminals, multiplayer games, electronic table games, and other automated betting terminals, which are sold in over 80 countries.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 47 (F)
Posts: 14136
There is a huge difference gambling some money away for fun, and gambling it away trying to get rich, which brings addiction. Cause when you get hooked, nothing works for you. A win will just delay, the same outcome. Friends and family are very important here, saving some from the downfall.
Joined: Mar '16
Location: Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 2395
in our country are very popular these two slot machines , book of Ra and sizzling hot , I'm a few years ago played actively on these two slots , but I had no success , sizzling hot is a little boring , but book of Ra is a very interesting slot Ra Ra Ra
Joined: May '09
Location: Croatia
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 20496
I remember that this slots was in my town 15 years ago,so everybody played them!especially Lucky Lady's Charm and Dolphins Pearl!its was good time,but slots from that time changed a lot!in that time was only slots with 9 lines,today we have 50 lines at slots!
Ra Ra Ra 
