COVID -19´s impact on the gaming industry and new opportunities: SBC Barcelona
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(Barcelona, SoloAzar Exclusive).- BetConstruct offered a talk during SBC Barcelona, in which the main issue was the impact of COVID-19 on the gaming industry and the new opportunities that the firm can offer to traditional casinos, among other issues.
A few days before the show, Vigen Badalyan, Founder and CEO at BetConstruct, anticipated SBC organizers: “We are happy to welcome our peers and everyone interested in connecting with the iGaming industry. Using cutting-edge technologies and our knowledge, we hope to reinvigorate and reconnect the industry-“
At the Q&A held yesterday by the firm, the speaker Gor Mnatsakanyan, Regional Director, described the unpredictable times due to COVID-19, and the “new normal” the world is starting to live.
He also talked about the role of the firm: “Our role at BetConstruct is to create entertainment and one of the challenges that the gaming industry is facing right now is that social distance measuring led to the closure of land-based operations, and the situation made us focus our efforts in alternative and easier ways to provide games for operators, providers and bettors as well”.
“The pandemic gave us an opportunity to become more creative, to open the windows for new products and to prepare our goals in a different environment. As there were no matches any more, we have started to look for alternatives to find a new content. Here we saw new verticals , like e-sports and virtual games. We have developed our new virtual sports games (basketball, football, tennis) into a new portfolio. E-sports have always been one of our main verticals. It was a good alternative to classic sports at COVID-19 situation, and it now became more popular”-
He also assured that, after the pandemic, some people will return to classic sports but virtual sports will also continue to grow, and anticipated that one of the hot topics for Betconstruct is also to help traditional casinos to open their online operations, to have the opportunity to target more players during lockdown.
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