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Originally Posted by spearmaster
When the code was put in my hands, you have to wonder what the casino must've been thinking:
* Will he reveal the code to others?
* Will he blackmail us and demand a payment to shut him up?
* Will he tell the truth?
* Will he see the wrong thing and make us look like we deliberately cheated?
* Will he use this code to create his own game?
* Will the players believe him?
* Will he modify the code and then claim it was rigged?
* Were we stupid in not making him sign an NDA?
* Will he discover a flaw and exploit it, and maybe reveal it to others?
If you look at it this way, it is a TREMENDOUS leap of faith for them to put the integrity and possible fate of their business in my hands.
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Er, what integrity?
They had just been caught with a cheating game, then denied (which they were forced to retract) that there was something wrong. They were seriously deep in the shit. This is not a normal
PR move, it's 'do we have any other choice'?
They were hardly in a position to go trumpeting NDAs, although I do note that you have not shared the crappy buggy code, so I can't see that there's any difference.
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If I had been in their shoes, I'm not sure that I would have DARED put my code in someone else's hands under any circumstances, fair, rigged, unintentionally flawed, etc. because it depends SOLELY on one interpretation.
Now I don't know what you think of that - or what you would have thought if you were the one entrusted with the code - but to me this alone speaks volumes, though ultimately I have to verify all of the information I have before I can actually give a full opinion.
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To me it says they were really worried about how they were going to recover their reputation.
Whether the code is that which was in place or not, it's impossible for you or I to know. Suffice to say they had quite a few days to come up with a story and write some code to fit the bill.
Writing Java code that just implements a bonus game like the one described is not exactly rocket science.
Whether or not that was the code they had on there, we cannot know. There are signs that it was, but equally serious questions if it was about why they did not do anything about the players being ripped off by the code until exposed publicly, despite knowing that the code was faulty.