The company has been hit by rising rents and a fall in customers since the tightening of gaming laws that placed restrictions on slot machines outside dedicated gambling venues.

That's 3 times less than in 2008, when 91 gambling venues operated in this city.

Some argue that to allow in-game items to have monetary values makes these games, essentially, gambling venues, which would be subject to legal regulation as such.

Although the suppression efforts resulted in declines at gambling venues and resulted in a business downturn, the city was recharged, literally, when the dam was completed in 1935.