Online Gaming Bill 2025: Dream11 points assertion, shifts utterly to free-to-play on-line social sport | Extra sports activities Information

Fantasy sports activities big Dream11 on Friday introduced that it has discontinued all paid contests on its platform and can now function solely as a free-to-play on-line social sport, within the backdrop of The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025. In a press release launched late on Friday, the corporate stated, “This morning, we stopped all paid contests on Dream11 and pivoted entirely to a free-to-play online social game.”

The new regulation, which acquired President Droupadi Murmu’s assent earlier within the day, prohibits all types of money-based on-line gaming whereas offering recognition and help for e-sports and on-line social video games. The laws carries stringent penalties for firms that fail to conform, together with imprisonment of as much as three years and fines of as much as ₹1 crore. Dream11, based 18 years in the past, stated its journey was pushed by the imaginative and prescient to enhance sports activities engagement in India. “When we started this journey 18 years ago as a Sports Tech company, we were not even 1% of the size of the USA Fantasy Sports industry. Dream11’s Fantasy Sports product was our way to ‘Make Sports Better’ for all of India,” the corporate stated, including that it had since grown into the world’s largest fantasy sports activities platform.

The firm underlined that it has at all times carried out enterprise in compliance with the regulation. “While we believe that progressive regulations would have been the right way forward, we will respect the law and will fully comply with ‘The Promotion & Regulation of Online Gaming Law, 2025’,” the assertion learn. Officials stated the federal government will notify the efficient date of the laws in the end, whereas guidelines beneath the invoice are being drafted. “As the bill is structured, even without rules, there are certain provisions that can come into force immediately. But that is a decision we will take,” MeitY Secretary S Krishnan instructed ANI.

Dream11 highlighted that it continues to function a number of different sports-tech ventures beneath its dad or mum group, together with FanCode, DreamSetGo and Dream Game Studios. “These will continue to power our vision to ‘Make Sports Better’ and support our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s ambition of making India a global sporting superpower,” the corporate stated. Signing off, the platform thanked customers for his or her help and added: “See you in our second innings.”