This is the WRONG PATH to take. This is the fork in the road that VIRTUAL GROUP took long ago, inventing ever more ingenious rules to "trap" the unwary player since it makes so many MORE things a "bonus crime" than before.
What about 25 line games, the bet IS $1.25, and NOT $1 than you arrive at after passing 40c (for 20 line game), and 50c (for 25 line game). Many players view these as equivalent stakes, and it becomes a "bonus crime" merely because on a 25 line game it goes over the new $1 rule.
The free chips in particular have SO MANY ANTI-PLAYER RULES at RTG, yet Microgaming has so far ONLY started along the lines of maximum bets, and have NOT found it necessary to impose max cashouts.
The voiding of cashouts on consecutive free chips (without a deposit between) is another "virtual trick" that iNetBet have picked up on - what gives? Previously, it was merely necessary to be an active player, and they could easily have redefined this as deposit in last 3 months, or 1 month, instead of the current 6 months. What about when a player has a birthday, and they get a run of free chips co-inciding BECAUSE THEY ARE A LOYAL PLAYER, rather than that they are "working the system". They get their managers bonus, then their birthday bonus, and also the usual free chip in the monthly newsletter. They could just get lucky, and beat more than one of these.
There is also this BULLSHIT NEW RULE that you CANNOT EVEN KEEP ON PLAYING once you have met WR, NOT EVEN TO EXTEND YOUR PLAYTIME (the previous, and now proven to be bullshit due to this new rules, reason casinos said they gave bonuses out). Now you MUST cash out ON THE DOT - yet the software does not react, and the result is often that the player UNDERSHOOTS the cashout cap BECAUSE THEY ARE HAVING FUN, rather than checking the meter in the cashier every few spins, and calculating the needed number of spins needed, and then checking and rechecking. WHAT FUN IS THAT!!! (except for a "bonus abuser").
These rules are so complicated, and worse involve SO MANY BALANCE CONFISCATIONS, even when no "crime" has been comitted.
What if you had hit the RJ off the free $5, and $1 or under bets, and you are ONLY allowed to play these types of games with it (the new ones). No "crime", yet could have $THOUSANDS confiscated for merely being "lucky", but at the WRONG TIME.
These free chips should be ABOLISHED ALTOGETHER, even the "gifts", which are really anything but with RTG. iNetBet doesn't seem to have the same problems with deposit bonuses, yet are giving away FAR more money than with free chips, and if you ARE unlucky enough to lose the amount of the original deposit, you effectively have a "free chip" left over, yet with none of the restrictions other than to complete the WR.
These free chip rules are going to train players up as "bonus abusers", since they will become accustomed to meeting WR to the exact letter & withdrawing, rather than playing "for fun", and thinking about withdrawing when they have decided they have something better to do - this they will learn from the NEED to meter watch during free chip play, but they will take this procedure over to deposit bonuses, where play will be with a view to exactly meeting WR, rather than having a session, be it good or bad.
Once players are trained up to "beat the bonus", the terms will have to change yet again, and the change will be for the worse.
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Back to port for unloading.
Full Sails - before we get raided ourselves.
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Originally Posted by lauriejim
(nowaday itsnt at any casino)....but if you win, you can be sure they wont give you any bitter surprise.
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