Skill-based amusement machines have had a boost in the US state of Ohio, where the Casino Control Commission, under whose authority the games fall, has approved lower application and licensing fees for the games’ operation.
The previous fee schedule applied to ‘Type B Operators’, who might run a crane machine, for example to pay an application fee of $1,500 and a three-year licensing fee of the same amount. Now he will pay just $250 for each of the application and licence.
There was also a ‘key employee’ application fee and five-year licence of $500 that has now been combined into just one fee of $50.
The changes come after considerable lobbying by the local coin machine trade association that now plans to continue to exert pressure, this time to gain changes in the process of reviewing games for authorisation.
