The ‘Online Gaming Promotion and Regulation Bill 2025, which is introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, can end the “online gaming platform with real funds which have a stake in the sponsorship market of Indian Games, especially cricket.
The Bill aims to regulate one of the fast growing industries which is a pleasant news for the country’s e-sports world, but a huge decline in the revenue of the ‘fantasy gaming’ industry of billions of dollars can be seen to be a huge decline which includes companies spending large amounts in sponsorship of cricket.
As a series of response, this game can also affect sponsorship market including franchise-based domestic leagues of sports sponsorship and kabaddi and football. Online Gaming Regulation Bill is a matter of creating a regulatory body that will see four diverse areas of e-Sports, Educational Gaming, Social Gaming and Casual Gaming and money.
Pti (Language) According to the documents available, ‘Online Money Games’ will be banned from these. According to the Article: “Any person will not help, encourage, motivate or otherwise offer online money game and online money gaming service. ,
It said, “Any person providing any bank, financial institution, or financial transactions or authority of money or any other person will not engage in any transaction or authority of money for payment of any online money gaming service, will not help, not motivate or will not facilitate otherwise. ,
The government makes it clear that online gaming platforms with real funds are causing many social problems and any kind of regulation is required. Cricket is a game in which the trend of gaming of real money has increased considerably and the title sponsor of the Indian team is Dream 11. At the same time, the official fantasy sports partner of the Indian Premier League is the online gaming platform ‘My 11 Circle’ with real money.
Dream 11 bought the title rights of the Indian team for about US $ 44 million (about Rs 358 crore). Mai 11 Circle bought IPL fantasy gaming rights for five years for Rs 625 crore (about Rs 125 crore per year). Apart from this, there are heavy personal advertising agreement with various real-funded gaming platforms of the country’s top cricketers (East and Current).
Well-known sports lawyer Vidushpat Singhania, who had a deep understanding of this subject, briefly explained its results. “Cricket in India is very big and there will be no shortage of sponsors for Indian cricket and its assets. However, due to this bill, individual sponsorship market can shrink. ,
Singhania said, “Apart from this, the participation of fans will also be affected.” However, he said that fantasy games can still run on ‘subscription based models’.
He said, “There will be a ‘subscription’ fee. Suppose you pay 100 rupees for a gaming app and look at your skills in fantasy gaming. But the gaming with real money is prohibited according to this bill in which money is earned by paying. ,
Such a huge revenue source of all these fantasy gaming apps will definitely be reduced due to the ban and hence the money coming back in the game will be reduced considerably.
But it is a pleasure for the ESPOR market. ESPORS made his debut at Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023 and the International Olympic Committee will hold its first ESPOR Olympics in Riyadh in 2027.
Sharing his views on this, Akshat Rathi, co -founder and managing director of ‘Nodwin Gaming’, says, “The government’s intention to recognize and promote eSports is an encouraging step. However, to really realize this approach, it is important that the vocabulary used in the bill is clearly defined and understood the difference between especially esport, online gaming, online social gaming and online money gaming. ,
