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I see that Berrini's Fortune doesn't have its own thread and since Anna is already aware of the posts above I'll add the Berrini's Fortune changes here and hopefully both can be addressed together, as the scenario is similar.
On opening Berrini's Fortune for the first time following the changes made to the game, this message is displayed.
However on this game the RTP has been nudged up a little bit.
BEFORE.
AFTER.
So no problems on the RTP situation (assuming that the progressive RTP is not being taken from game RTP), but I'm not entirely thrilled by the changes to the game itself.
The changes to the top pays are only available from a 5 scatters trigger, and that's a rare hit. To give you an idea, as of August I'd done 40,000 real money spins on this game and I've never seen a 5 scatters trigger. (And I've done a fair few spins on it since then, still no 5 scatters trigger.)
Now whilst the changes apparently make very little difference to the overall pays for a 3 scatters trigger, the actual win table for a three scatters trigger has been made rather less appealing in my opinion.
Here's what it used to look like.
And here's what it looks like now. (Note the changes at the lower end of the right hand side picks triangle.)
If there's one thing I hate in a slot, it's a free spins round that can run at a 1x multiplier (I think it's one of the weakest aspects of Arctic Adventure), and here we have a change that's taken a worst case scenario of a 2x multiplier on a 3 scatters trigger, and replaced it with a 1x multiplier.
At the same time they've reduced the number of picks for 3 scatters, which makes getting one of the shit picks more likely.
I've played this slot a decent amount (40K+ spins in real money alone), the VAST majority of the features are 3 scatters, 4 scatters is fairly rare, 5 scatters I've never seen.
As such, a change that makes the 'main feature' objectively worse, to compensate for an uplift in a feature you can go over 40K spins for and never see, doesn't seem like a trade off worth making to me.
It sounds perilously close to one of those 'Look at the potential!' style changes, that will never be realised for almost everyone, but presents a more exciting headline number, whilst making the actual game worse.
I'm also concerned about feature frequency, whilst the average pays for a 3 scatters trigger might be about the same overall, has the feature frequency itself changed? (Also, I suspect that whilst the 'pays' might be about the same in terms of what each option is worth, with one less pick per feature, that's going to increase the risk of getting a shit one and therefore reduce the overall value of a 3 scatters trigger.)
On balance I don't like slots being mucked about with at the best of times, and the changes to Berrini's Fortune seem to me like an answer to a question no one was asking. As with Gemini, one can only conclude that the changes push the volatility of the game up by at least some degree, I'd be interested to know by how much.
Grumpy face
On opening Berrini's Fortune for the first time following the changes made to the game, this message is displayed.
However on this game the RTP has been nudged up a little bit.
BEFORE.
AFTER.
So no problems on the RTP situation (assuming that the progressive RTP is not being taken from game RTP), but I'm not entirely thrilled by the changes to the game itself.
The changes to the top pays are only available from a 5 scatters trigger, and that's a rare hit. To give you an idea, as of August I'd done 40,000 real money spins on this game and I've never seen a 5 scatters trigger. (And I've done a fair few spins on it since then, still no 5 scatters trigger.)
Now whilst the changes apparently make very little difference to the overall pays for a 3 scatters trigger, the actual win table for a three scatters trigger has been made rather less appealing in my opinion.
Here's what it used to look like.
And here's what it looks like now. (Note the changes at the lower end of the right hand side picks triangle.)
If there's one thing I hate in a slot, it's a free spins round that can run at a 1x multiplier (I think it's one of the weakest aspects of Arctic Adventure), and here we have a change that's taken a worst case scenario of a 2x multiplier on a 3 scatters trigger, and replaced it with a 1x multiplier.
At the same time they've reduced the number of picks for 3 scatters, which makes getting one of the shit picks more likely.
I've played this slot a decent amount (40K+ spins in real money alone), the VAST majority of the features are 3 scatters, 4 scatters is fairly rare, 5 scatters I've never seen.
As such, a change that makes the 'main feature' objectively worse, to compensate for an uplift in a feature you can go over 40K spins for and never see, doesn't seem like a trade off worth making to me.
It sounds perilously close to one of those 'Look at the potential!' style changes, that will never be realised for almost everyone, but presents a more exciting headline number, whilst making the actual game worse.
I'm also concerned about feature frequency, whilst the average pays for a 3 scatters trigger might be about the same overall, has the feature frequency itself changed? (Also, I suspect that whilst the 'pays' might be about the same in terms of what each option is worth, with one less pick per feature, that's going to increase the risk of getting a shit one and therefore reduce the overall value of a 3 scatters trigger.)
On balance I don't like slots being mucked about with at the best of times, and the changes to Berrini's Fortune seem to me like an answer to a question no one was asking. As with Gemini, one can only conclude that the changes push the volatility of the game up by at least some degree, I'd be interested to know by how much.
Grumpy face