Ian C. Lucas: Just so I am clear about the distinction that you outlined, for example, if I won a cruise as a result of this process then in the Netherlands that would be gambling, but in the UK it would not be. Is that right?
Brad Enright: That is where you start getting into a more difficult definition. In the social casino gaming context, for example, we have said up until now it cannot be classified as gambling because you are not playing for a prize of money or money’s worth. What we then found was that some elements of the social casino game industry were allowing people to earn loyalty points for use on restaurants, for things that you would otherwise be paying for, and we did say, “You need to stop doing that”. That, in our view, would fall under money’s worth, so perhaps the cruise example we would say is money’s worth. But simply acquiring the skin of a character or something that is entirely for use within the game, currently we are saying that that does not constitute money’s worth. A cruise clearly is not for use in the game, so we think that that would fall under our definition.
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