Online Casino Style: News - More Embarrassment for BC Lottery Corp

09/04/2010		Online Casino Style - News: More Embarrassment for BC Lottery Corp
Home History Games News Dictionary		Though the last two months have been chock full of excitement for the British Columbia province in Canada, as they launched the first full service online casino in North America, the attempt to follow through on the promises made to the industry has once again failed this week, in spite of it being the second try at the introduction of the site. The first attempt made at the beginning of last month failed when the site was reported to have been overloaded by the flood of players signing in to use the online gambling platforms. That story roller into news of upgrades made that would accommodate the demand, as well as improvements to the security of the site’s coding. The management team for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation said that all the bugs and weaknesses found were fixed, tried and tested, ready for an official re-launch this past Thursday evening. The attempt to do so seems to have actually gone quite badly, with the result being seen as more of an embarrassment to the organization than anything else, and causing doubt in the minds of online gambling enthusiasts as to the state’s ability to run such a huge project. The site, which should be available to be accessed through PlayNow.com, went down less than 48 hours from its original start date, and has been out of commission for 35 days since. During that period, few details were available to regular players, with the message only reading a bland apology for any inconvenience. The webpage was supposed to open back up this weekend, but despite confirmation of a re-launch by British Columbia Lottery, the site was still down…. Only to reopen a day later. British Columbia’s Lottery Corporation has been only moderately apologetic, and the explanations for the additional delay have not yet been offered. On the plus side, it seems that the firm’s assurances that the online gambling site was clear of errors and possible security breaches has been confirmed by the independent business services company Deloitee and Touche, giving the site a clean bill of health.

09/04/2010

Online Casino Style - News:
More Embarrassment for BC Lottery Corp

Though the last two months have been chock full of excitement for the British Columbia province in Canada, as they launched the first full service online casino in North America, the attempt to follow through on the promises made to the industry has once again failed this week, in spite of it being the second try at the introduction of the site. The first attempt made at the beginning of last month failed when the site was reported to have been overloaded by the flood of players signing in to use the online gambling platforms. That story roller into news of upgrades made that would accommodate the demand, as well as improvements to the security of the site’s coding.

The management team for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation said that all the bugs and weaknesses found were fixed, tried and tested, ready for an official re-launch this past Thursday evening. The attempt to do so seems to have actually gone quite badly, with the result being seen as more of an embarrassment to the organization than anything else, and causing doubt in the minds of online gambling enthusiasts as to the state’s ability to run such a huge project.

The site, which should be available to be accessed through PlayNow.com, went down less than 48 hours from its original start date, and has been out of commission for 35 days since. During that period, few details were available to regular players, with the message only reading a bland apology for any inconvenience. The webpage was supposed to open back up this weekend, but despite confirmation of a re-launch by British Columbia Lottery, the site was still down…. Only to reopen a day later.

British Columbia’s Lottery Corporation has been only moderately apologetic, and the explanations for the additional delay have not yet been offered. On the plus side, it seems that the firm’s assurances that the online gambling site was clear of errors and possible security breaches has been confirmed by the independent business services company Deloitee and Touche, giving the site a clean bill of health.