221B Baker Street Stuck Bonus Game

zellie

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I was playing this game for the first time on Slotsmillions when I got a bonus on £2, it dropped in a retrigger (wilds count with the moonlight symbol to retrigger) on the last game but then just stuck. It would not carry on playing at all.
I got an email from them offering me the win but it looks like I would forfeit any retrigger winnings or even find out what they would have been from what I can see in the email if I accept the offer?
Here is the email they sent


Hello

I trust this email finds you well.

You reported a stuck round on game 221b Baker Street on 26th of December. The game manufacturer has been already informed about this, but unfortunately the fix is going to take a while. Saying this we would like you to confirm, if you accept our offer to manually finish the game and in the process credit the 133.30 GBP you have won up to this point.

If you want us to close the game manually and credit the 133.30GBP, you need to confirm it by answering to this email. Please do note that further bonus rounds will expire when the manual closing has been done.

Also please be advised after 21 days any unfinished game will be cancelled by an automated system job after 21 days (by 16th of January 2018) .

Looking forward your reply!


Link to the game where it stuck here

Advice needed as I have replied to ask if that means I would forfeit the bonus retrigger winnings, but not sure what else to do.
 
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You can contact the rep here on the site to see if there is anything else that they can do. Personally I'd be a tad annoyed at that email as it kinda states take the win so far now or else you will get nothing down the line. This is a provider error and ought to be checked out thoroughly and in a timely manner and you should receive what the total amount of the bonus was going to pay. Good luck!

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You can contact the rep here on the site to see if there is anything else that they can do. Personally I'd be a tad annoyed at that email as it kinda states take the win so far now or else you will get nothing down the line. This is a provider error and ought to be checked out thoroughly and in a timely manner and you should receive what the total amount of the bonus was going to pay. Good luck!

Here is the link for Charlotte the Slotsmillion Rep. Start a converstaion/send her a PM
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I was tempted to accept the offer at first too, I have done as you suggested thanks Osulle
 
No idea whats up with slotsmillion and this stuck bonus rounds. It happened to me with great blue where playtech pretended they couldnt see the outcome of my win and slotsmillion gave me $200 for 50 cent bonus round. Seems nice but also very fishy. I prob won $10,000.

Happened to me again on great blue and twice on buffalo blitz
 
Happend for me at vera&John played bloodsuckers and free spins just disappeared, reported it, but didn't get to play them at all. Not sure but if i remember right it went almost a year and got an mail that said. We have investigated and found that you won 40€ or some like that, Bet not sure but between 2.5-7.5€. Suck when that happens.

But anyway have to ask.
These wild they will give you additional 4 free spins and slotsmillion want´s to offer you this deal without knowing the outcome of the last spins you didn't get to play? And how can they "reset" or what´s it called after 21 days even if they know that your play is stuck. Personally i wouldn't accept the offer, feels shady imo. Really hope i gets solved for you and that you win shit load of them spins.

/Temprush
 
Hello zellie and everyone,

The thread pretty much covers everything that there is to understand about the issue: the game got stuck in a bonus round, preventing you from playing the game, finishing the round or even get any part of the winnings you had accumulated before it got stuck. The game provider confirms something went wrong and assures us the issue will be investigated and fixed "eventually".

I can answer to your question: no, you will not be able to play the remaining spins of your round because the only way to unstuck you from the game is to resolve the round in its current state (with 133£ win) and refresh your game session.

There is no way to know what you would have got from these remaining spins (from what I understand of Merkur's response, the results of a bonus round is not predetermined at the start like on some game providers). In my opinion, a fair way to handle this incident would be to provide you with a new bonus round of the same number of spins of same value as the ones you lost, and add to it some compensation for the inconvenience.

Unfortunately Merkur gaming doesn't provide this kind of feature (the ability to trigger bonus rounds) and not even free spins. (Not to mention that more and more games nowadays scale bonus rounds level based on accumulated wagering which would make even more complicated to compensate you with rounds of equal value, although I am not sure Merkur games have this kind of mechanism)

What can we do from here?
1. We (SM and Merkur) owe you the 133£ you won, as well as some undetermined amount of "what you could have won".
We will credit you the 133£, that is not an option and I am sorry it has been presented to you as a "Sorry, take it or leave it" kind of offer: that's how the game provider presented it to us (which seems to me like an understandable posture) and the CS agent didn't think she had a word to say on that matter - maybe she didn't and the fact that you escalated is probably a good thing.
2. The discussion now is about the remaining "undetermined amount of money you could have won", and that will be another kind of discussion that SlotsMillion will have with Merkur gaming to get them to take responsability for their bug.
3. As a casino, we want to keep you with us and we should probably give you a little something to apologize for the inconvenience.
I'll talk to our CS Manager which will take from there the points 1. and 3.

And I'll get in touch with Merkur for the point 2. The result of this is unpredictable since it will depend on how the game provider responds and how likely they are to make a move. It can be resolved in few days or it can take weeks, or might even never get to anywhere.

In my opinion, Merkur's answer so far is much more complete and caring than the answers we usually get from game providers; they admit there is an issue on their side, which some providers keep denying even with dozens of players involved from several casinos. That might be an element of answer to your question Lockinlove, that I won't expand further as a casino rep :)

Regards
 
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Thanks for your explanation. I would have preferred as you said a fair way to handle this incident would be to provide new bonus round of the same number of spins of same value as the ones lost, and add to it some compensation for the inconvenience. But Merkur say not possible from the sounds of it.

I checked and found this info.
Free Spins are triggered if you land at least 3 Big Ben icons on an active payline. This sequence will reward you with 2 to 6 free spins. Landing 4 Big Bens will get you 6 to 14 rounds and 5 Big Bens will reward the player with 10 to 20 additional rounds. During this bonus your wins are multiplied up to x5
Also the Duel bonus comes up in free spins regularly

That means 5 Big Bens are 10-20 additional rounds at £2 bet, all I can think is it would have been really exciting to play 10-220 bonus rounds out on this Merkur slot.

EDIT Received an email and the £133 has now been credited to my account plus a £20 bonus 48x wagering, with 72hrs to accept it.
 
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Shouldn't host games from any of these providers if the can't accept their responsibilities. Don't see how they can just fob off customers and get away with it willy nilly, all the while the customer has to wait days/ weeks for a resolution.

The customer's getting an incomplete product and has no rights. Only in this industry eh :rolleyes:
 
Shouldn't host games from any of these providers if the can't accept their responsibilities. Don't see how they can just fob off customers and get away with it willy nilly, all the while the customer has to wait days/ weeks for a resolution.

The customer's getting an incomplete product and has no rights. Only in this industry eh :rolleyes:

You know why . it states in game that a malfunction voids all wins etc etc , first ive seen with Merkur though & as rep did point out , at least they stated it was a problem , should just round it too £300 quid i think would be fair )
 
You know why . it states in game that a malfunction voids all wins etc etc , first ive seen with Merkur though & as rep did point out , at least they stated it was a problem , should just round it too £300 quid i think would be fair )

Or at least a double on the £133.

The fairest way of doing it would be to find the average win per spin (so far) by dividing the £133 by spins played and multiply by the total spins.

So for example...from 4 played spins out of 10.

£133/4 = £33.25 x 10 = £332.5

Of course in this case it is 8 spins total and 4 spins played, so it's a simple double up...Can't get fairer than that in my opinion.

Edit: I haven't played the game myself, but if what Tengil said is true and only symols on an active payline trigger the bonus, then there was no retrigger and the game was in fact actually complete with £133 the total free round winnings.
 
You know why . it states in game that a malfunction voids all wins etc etc , first ive seen with Merkur though & as rep did point out , at least they stated it was a problem , should just round it too £300 quid i think would be fair )
You're right, I should clarify I mean providers are at fault and absolve themselves of blame, the whole 'malfunction voids pays' is far too convenient for them and seems to occur a lot these days, on fairly large bets too. No way do I believe that Merkur or anyone else takes days to audit their games, they shouldn't be fit to supply games if they're that slack and dismissive :cool:
 
Hello,

As a quick update, my contact at Merkur answered positively to my request of common effort into compensating the missing spins a priori. They'll take a closer look at the game round and will get back to me next week with some indications on the amount and conditions so we discuss further.

Regards
 
Wait, what does this mean? :confused:

Hello,

Without entering in much details (because slot mechanics aren't my specialty) certain slot games have what we call at SlotsMillion accumulated features.
This term regroups any kind of bonus, perk, or reward you can get in a game through wagering, which then increases your chances of winning or the scale of the amount. Sometimes clearly displayed, sometimes not (and then the game can only be categorized empirically).

Gemix from Play'n GO and Vikings Go Berserk from Yggdrasil, are two good examples which I believe have similar mechanics: when you enter in a bonus round the "coin value" of the spins is an average of the previous bets you made to reach this bonus round. (ie: if you make 99 spins at 0.10€ and 1 last spin at 10€ just before the bonus round, the coin value in the bonus round will be 0.19 (0.10x99 + 10x1) / 100).
So even if the player thinks his coin value is 10€, in fact it is not correct.

Since we don't know the game mechanics (for instance in my previous example, I don't know which X last bets are taken into account to calculate this average I took 100 for my example but I don't know the exact number) if we had to compensate a player with free rounds, it would be quite difficult because all we can do is ask the provider what "value" had the bonus round lost according to them.

Note: I think some other games have min-max intervals in bonus rounds (ensuring that you always win more than X but never more than Y) as bonus rounds have their own variance and RTP. Although I did not mean to start a discussion on bonus rounds mechanisms - I said pretty much everything I know about it :), just wanted to comment that since the casino doesn't have the knowledge of every specific video slot, compensating theoretical rounds without the guidance of the game provider would be quite hazardous.

Cheers
 
That sounds sketchy as hell, aren't all spins supposed to be independent?
If you hit a £10 bonus on gemix it will be a £10 bonus even if you did a million 10p spins before hand.
Or do you mean the accumulating 'world bonus' which you receive at the end of completing a world? This accumulates at the rate of whatever stake you are playing at the time.
 
It didn't actually retrigger as the Big Bens weren't on an active payline.

Looks like a pay line to me 3 wilds and a Big Ben on Payline 6.

The alarm bell goes off signalling the retrigger but then freezes. And does not show the win on Line 6 or any others.

Cant get the rules page to open on the game. Do the wilds and scatter symbols have to be together from left to right?. As there is a ace on reel 3, on the payline, between the wilds and big Ben
 
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Thanks for your explanation. I would have preferred as you said a fair way to handle this incident would be to provide new bonus round of the same number of spins of same value as the ones lost, and add to it some compensation for the inconvenience. But Merkur say not possible from the sounds of it.

I checked and found this info.
Free Spins are triggered if you land at least 3 Big Ben icons on an active payline. This sequence will reward you with 2 to 6 free spins. Landing 4 Big Bens will get you 6 to 14 rounds and 5 Big Bens will reward the player with 10 to 20 additional rounds. During this bonus your wins are multiplied up to x5
Also the Duel bonus comes up in free spins regularly

That means 5 Big Bens are 10-20 additional rounds at £2 bet, all I can think is it would have been really exciting to play 10-220 bonus rounds out on this Merkur slot.

EDIT Received an email and the £133 has now been credited to my account plus a £20 bonus 48x wagering, with 72hrs to accept it.

I think that is quite a poor response. A £20 offer on it's own would be lame, but to add 48X wagering is insulting.
 
Really can not see the debate here.

As Tengil has already stated it was not a feature triggering payline. The 3 symbols have to be on reel 1 2 3 to trigger bonus on an active payline not anywhere on a line. Its like the 3 bonus symbols on bloodsuckers for example.

So no retrigger so game paid exactly what it should have. Zellie may have been mistaken and thought it was on a payline but can not get why others are chipping in saying its not fair and should get this and that of the casino.

That is why on the spin that originally triggered the feature their was only 4 spins awarded. If the symbols could have been anywhere in a line the bottom line would have had 4 symbols and their would also have been other lines with 3 so feature would have started with more than 4 spins
 
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Congratulation SlotMillions you really know how to bandage those cuts. Awesome wagering for that huge bonus. Zellie must be thrilled. Only that´s missing is that you put bonus and winnings together and zellie have to wager it all. After all it´s only 48X could have been 78X or 100X :thumbsup: :rolleyes:
And to you Zellie, sorry to hear that this happen to you, Hope you win a great sum of money to withdrawal without hiccups and slot errors.
 
Really can not see the debate here.

As Tengil has already stated it was not a feature triggering payline. The 3 symbols have to be on reel 1 2 3 to trigger bonus on an active payline not anywhere on a line. Its like the 3 bonus symbols on bloodsuckers for example.

So no retrigger so game paid exactly what it should have. Zellie may have been mistaken and thought it was on a payline but can not get why others are chipping in saying its not fair and should get this and that of the casino.

That is why on the spin that originally triggered the feature their was only 4 spins awarded. If the symbols could have been anywhere in a line the bottom line would have had 4 symbols and their would also have been other lines with 3 so feature would have started with more than 4 spins
Is that so? But still the provider claims that there has been an error? why so if the game didn´t get some error? Haven´t played this game myself, but if the retrigger have to been on 1-2-3 for retrigger and that is what i'm seeing to, see wilds? on reels 1,2 and 4 to, so that would make the game not retrigger instead just played out rest of bonus scene.
Temprush
 
Hello,

Is that so? But still the provider claims that there has been an error? why so if the game didn´t get some error? Haven´t played this game myself, but if the retrigger have to been on 1-2-3 for retrigger and that is what i'm seeing to, see wilds? on reels 1,2 and 4 to, so that would make the game not retrigger instead just played out rest of bonus scene.
Temprush

Our own team came to the same conclusion that there were no spins remaining to be played, but we'll wait the final word from the provider because we're unsure of our analysis. They did confirm an issue on their side because they can see on their logs that the game crashed and the session got locked although they didn't confirm whether there were or not missing spins.


Congratulation SlotMillions you really know how to bandage those cuts. Awesome wagering for that huge bonus. Zellie must be thrilled. Only that´s missing is that you put bonus and winnings together and zellie have to wager it all. After all it´s only 48X could have been 78X or 100X :thumbsup: :rolleyes:

I cannot disclose gameplay or bonus related information about Zellie here so all I can say is that all our compensations are scaled on the player "profile" (average deposit, bonus behaviour, gameplay habits etc) and this case isn't an exception. I would openly discuss our decision if Zellie wishes to understand our policy and allows me to disclose few information in public. We care about our players but not everyone has the same history or gambling behavior and what doesn't seem much for some is fair for others.

Besides, I would like to remind that our casino isn't at fault here. We'll make sure the player gets what is due and this bonus is solely an extra to soften things a bit and we hope sincerely it doesn't appear as an offense.

Cheers
 
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