what's up with Mega Moolah?

[Fleur-De-Lis]

I just logged in to play and noticed that even MINI jackpot (which is usually around 9-10 bucks) is up to 480$... Same for Minor and Major JPs - they are HUGE. Does it mean that nobody won RJ for loooong time? Is it normal?..

[Rusty]

I just logged in to play and noticed that even MINI jackpot (which is usually around 9-10 bucks) is up to 480$... Same for Minor and Major JPs - they are HUGE. Does it mean that nobody won RJ for loooong time? Is it normal?..

There is already a thread about this fleur.
I think it is called Somethings changed at microgaming

[KasinoKing]

Personally I think we should use THIS thread to discuss Mega Moolah.
(Mainly because the name of the slot is in the title).

The other thread is more about a general feeling that all games have changed, this is specific to MM and this change is VERY serious IMHO.

It looks like MG have increased the smaller jackpots by about x 50.
Now unless they've suddenly gone all charitable (very unlikely), this means the chances of hitting the bonus wheel must have been reduced by x50...

Has anyone received any official notification of this change?

Anyone play it often enough to be able to tell if the chance of hitting bonus feature has dramatically changed?

Feedback please!
KK

[kmay87]

I can vouch for that KK. Mega Moolah recently became my favourite slot, after months of playing and normally just one random - the mini as it often was - in a session, to hitting half a dozen minor jp's in the same session.

I noticed the other day that the mini and minors were way over the usual. The mini at one point was more than the minor by £400 odd, compared to £10 which it always was, and while grinding out a WR at minimum stakes (with a balance of £500) I never hit it once.

Probably not linked, but the usually frequent 2x scatters (with 3 required for the free spins) were also few and far between.

I've always hesitated at playing at slots with random jp's, due to the reduced payout, but this was the first time I did that many spins - over 4,000 - not to hit it once.

Personally I think we should use THIS thread to discuss Mega Moolah.
(Mainly because the name of the slot is in the title).

The other thread is more about a general feeling that all games have changed, this is specific to MM and this change is VERY serious IMHO.

It looks like MG have increased the smaller jackpots by about x 50.
Now unless they've suddenly gone all charitable (very unlikely), this means the chances of hitting the bonus wheel must have been reduced by x50...

Has anyone received any official notification of this change?

Anyone play it often enough to be able to tell if the chance of hitting bonus feature has dramatically changed?

Feedback please!
KK

[KasinoKing]

I was just observing the jackpots at Ladbrokes, and saw the Minor won at £2,000+ and reset to £1,000.

So it has definitely changed. However, the Paytable still says this:-

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What on earth is going on here???

[vinylweatherman]

I just put £10 through it, left over in one of my accounts - it's gone now, but the Mini is nearly 800, with the Minor over 1300. The two higher ones seen normal.

All are ticking up as expected, so the slot is certainly being played, however, this maybe by players "chasing" what they believe is a one-off freak build-up of the two lower jackpots. If nothing has changed, this would be a damn good strategy, but if MG HAVE changed something, a lot of burnt fingers are going to be suffered.

There could also be a bug, with the wheel not being triggered properly.

If MG have indeed changed the game, they have, for the first time, left incontrovertible PROOF, and now we have some grounds for the feelings that OTHER games are now "somehow different".

I have felt that Munchkins has changed to give fewer bonus rounds, and this seems to have been the case for some months. I KNOW Munchkins well, I used to play it EVERY Monday at Casino Action since it came out, and I KNOW how the variance of the bonus rounds goes. It FEELS different now, VERY different indeed!! Bonus rounds are now about as frequent as on Thunderstruck, but in the past Munchkins would drop them far more often, often with only a few spins, or a few dozen, between each one. Now, this simply DOES NOT HAPPEN, the average interval has increased, and pairs of scatters (the "heartstoppers") are less frequent. There is STILL the same reel layout for the scatters as far as I can see, so either this is a VERY long lasting extreme of random variance, and if we can believe the current situation with Mega Moolah is the same kind of extreme of natural variance, then I can believe my experience at Munchkins is also just one of those extremes of variance.

Mega Moolah is the proof, it should revert back to "normal" after this fluke of variance is over, and if it doesn't, we have to believe that MG DO change OLD GAMES, and DO NOT TELL PLAYERS.

[kmay87]

Take a look at the screenshot below (apologies for the quality). I played for about three hours today, no-one won any of the jackpots. Then the mini (which was at £600) went, went back down to £10, then it was won again straight away - coincidence? - and went down to £1!

Just after I took this screenshot, the major went from £2800 to £600.

This slot has definately been changed. 15 free spins paying 3x and the only win was for the initial three scatters. And that's happened quite a few times today.

[Jasminebed]

Mega Moolah has always been one of my favourites, but I haven't played MG in more than a month. I think I will wait while it gets sorted. If it does

[Swede]

I know this thread was supposed to be about Mega Moolah but since VWM's thoughts about Munchkins is here, I'll just reply here.

I too have been playing Munchkins for the longest time. Not because I expect it to pay out huge, which is rare, but rather for the frequent free spins. Lately however, I've found myself playing for hours without even getting a decent number of heart-stoppers. The last session took the cake, I spun ~400 times before I got the free spins which I guess isn't that horrible. The round payed shite so I kept playing as I know (knew) it can pop up right away again. This time it took just under 1000 spins to get them, during which I say two scatters on reels 1-4 a maximum of 8-10 times.

I brushed it off simply because nowadays I'm used to going several hundred or even a thousand spins between bonus rounds, no matter what MG slot I choose. As stupid as it may seem, I did go back the next day to try again, playing 60-90c as I always do. This time it took exactly 663 tries to get the free spins and needless to say, I got mighty pissed. The line wins are too puny and the good ones are too far between to sustain you in this game, you need to hit the free spins somewhat frequently to avoid going bust. As I recall, getting them somewhere between 150-200 spins apart is quite normal, at least for the years and several tens of thousand spins I've put in playing this machine.

I know two sessions aren't enough to cry wolf but hitting thrice in 2000 or so spins made me stop and wonder. Just my two cents on a recent event.

[lauram]

Also noticed mega jackpot right up there mind you i have only been picked once to spin the wheel. I just did 50 spins on this game and before i use to read over and over jackpot won by another player, during those 50 spins i never read that once.