Mega Moolah Mega Jackpot - What's going on?

[Matthew23]

I also emailed them and they told me the jackpot is still £4,300,000+ ......... so its strange that the software is displaying less than £4m.

They just told me its normal and this is how progressives work.......I really don't think they knew what I was on about

[Gchrist]

all very interesting.... it does sound like that chat operator didn't really have a clue.... wouldn't be the first time though. Anyone from MG care to comment?

[liquuid_fusion]

32Red have just sent out a promotion email to Club Rouge members. At the bottom it confirms that someone has won the jackpot in South African Rand, converting to a win of £313,732.

[Dave]

The Major, Minor, and Mini jackpots are separate from the Mega jackpot, so any wins there wouldn't (and have never) affected the graph of the Mega jackpot.

About 3 days ago, the feeds for all of the Microgaming jackpots stopped updating. (No idea why). Earlier today, the feeds started working again. During the outage, it appears as though the Mega Moolah jackpot was hit!

It is odd that it only dropped by 300,000 -- I suppose the SA rand explanation makes the most sense (good thinking, guys). When you convert 4.3 million Rands to GBP, you get roughly 312,000.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...bp&btnG=Search

It would be nice if someone from MGS could confirm that this is what happened.

that's a good possiblity.... poor blighter winning is SA rand (should we be sympathetic.... still a lot of dosh). What about Jackpotgraphs.com though, why no change?

When you posted yesterday, none of the Microgaming feeds available to me were updating (hence, the flat-looking graphs). The jackpot values were displayed properly inside the casinos, I think, but the feed that is available to wasn't working until a few hours ago.

I set up the alert system so that a "hit" occurs only when the jackpot value decreases. And then, it must decrease by a substantial amount for it to count as a true hit. Some of the feeds aren't very stable -- they bounce around a bit -- so to eliminate false alerts, I set up "decrease thresholds" for each game. For Mega Moolah, it's $1,000; for Mega Moolah Major, it's $100. So if the Mega Moolah feed has a hiccup, and if the value drops by $25 for whatever reason, that isn't recorded as a hit. If it drops by more than $1,000, that would be considered a hit.

Anyway, when the feed started working again today, the hit was recorded (as you will see on the Mega Moolah graph page), although the exact time of the jackpot, and the exact amount aren't really accurate, thanks to the feed being broken for 3 days. How convenient that the feed was broken during the first-ever Mega Moolah jackpot win!

If anyone knows the exact figure, and the approximate time, please let me know and I'll change the number in the database.

[Dave]

It would be nice if someone from MGS could confirm that this is what happened.

32Red have just sent out a promotion email to Club Rouge members. At the bottom it confirms that someone has won the jackpot in South African Rand, converting to a win of £313,732.

Thanks liquuid_fusion!

[bonustreak]

Yeah something is funny here for sure! Seems like Micro is having some issues with stats and tracking of things as of late

[Jody Nustedt]

32Red have just sent out a promotion email to Club Rouge members. At the bottom it confirms that someone has won the jackpot in South African Rand, converting to a win of £313,732.

I can't say for sure it was SA Rand, but it would have been someone winning it in their local currency, then this amount being deducted from the jackpot total, and the adjustment being made.

This has just been told to me by someone from MGS.

[Aldebaran]

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[Edward D. Wood]

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If only the game wouldn`t be that slow and boring...I would eventually give it some tries.
But that is only my opinion

[jetset]

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