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Odd. But it seems to be fixed now. At least my account looks ok.

) are put back because MGS are unable to stand against the "onslaught" of player demands.How can such an issue link pages from completely different casinos, on different servers, and in different jurisdictions
It suggests to me that things "under the bonnet" are not as they seem, or portrayed to players.
I understood that each MGS casino was it's own ringfenced instance on it's own server, operated and maintained by MGS on behalf of the operator and located in the operator's jurisdiction. Each players' account and it's games also being unique instances on the relevant casino server.
There have been a number of very odd happenings that have made me question this view.
Also today, the announcement that Octopays and Phantom Cash have returned due to "popular demand". REALLY? since when did MGS cave in to "popular demand". Even louder calls for the return of LOTR fell on deaf ears, but two games that barely created a murmour when they vanished (I didn't even notice) are put back because MGS are unable to stand against the "onslaught" of player demands.
With the above cock-up, there is a potential security/privacy issue of documents intended for the casino opened being inadvertently sent to a completely different operator, neither of which may have any idea about what is going on. One casino having a random set of documents that belongs to no account on record, and another facing a complaint that the secure upload has shoved documents into an untraceable void - a problem normally associated with sending documents via email.
How about we wait for the people who know what they're talking about to explain, rather than whipping up the "Its rigged I tells ya" crowd based on your personal guesswork.
How about we wait for the people who know what they're talking about to explain...

As they did with the Pai Gow incident?
https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/microgaming-pai-gow-poker-payout-bug.37717/

As they did with the Pai Gow incident?
https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/microgaming-pai-gow-poker-payout-bug.37717/
Yup.
And at least we all know now how the Battlestar Galactica double wild works, dont we?![]()


I got an e-mail from Lucky Nugget today about Octopays and Phantom - prithee tell me should I go out and celebrate? Throw a party? Never even played them or heard of them before. Why did they disappear in the first place? Did Vinyl have a humptier for them?![]()
I got an e-mail from Lucky Nugget today about Octopays and Phantom - prithee tell me should I go out and celebrate? Throw a party? Never even played them or heard of them before. Why did they disappear in the first place? Did Vinyl have a humptier for them?![]()
Even louder calls for the return of LOTR fell on deaf ears, but two games that barely created a murmour when they vanished (I didn't even notice) are put back because MGS are unable to stand against the "onslaught" of player demands.

I think this is rather interesting and I share some of VWM's concerns about how this could happen.
As this is kind of 'my area' I can tell you that there's no way the 32Red Casino window would show a webpage (as that's all that screen in the casino client actually is) for another casino, unless the backend for these casinos was far more integrated than anyone of us would like to think is the case. (I'm thinking they're all simply calling from their own directories on the same IIS server.)
The error here is a standard ASP.NET exception screen - https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/32red.55604/
It looks to me like someone was mucking about in the backend desperately trying to sort out the mess they realised they'd just made, which is when the error got chucked rather than a webpage rendered.
The key thing to look at is the website that the error comes from, and remember this is in a Ladbrokes casino client, the path is:
c:\www\casino\vegaspartnerlounge.com - this will be the path on the IIS server that is serving the webpage, it's also a local path, the 'C' drive, I absolutely cannot think of any explanation for that error being served to a Ladbrokes MG casino client unless they're actually sharing the same web server.
In particular I'd really like to see the contents of the c:\www folder - as I suspect we'd recognise an awful lot of casino names in there.....
It looks to me like someone was doing some routine work on updating the websites (the 'websites' in reality are a directory on the IIS server, the casino client just displays those webpages, calling back to the relevant directory for code, graphics, and so on), and either overwrote a load of casino folders with the vegaspartner folder, or changed a path in error for the default website, or something like that.
Admittedly I'm speculating on that aspect, but from what we've seen in this thread, I'd say everything here is being served from the same web server. I very much doubt there'll be a single one, it'll be a farm of several servers but the directories will be replicated across the farm, so that they're all serving the same content at the same time.
Now is it really headline news that MG are running from centralised consolidated servers? Probably not, however, the situation seen here, to my mind, can only be explained in one of two possible ways.
1) MG allow casino operators to update their own websites, in which case there is a chocking great security hole in their setup, as the Vegas Partner guys seemed to be able to overwrite other casinos' website content, we know for sure that Ladbrokes and 32Red were affected. (I think this is highly unlikely.)
2) MG just do everything themselves, even down to trivial stuff like casino client messages and promotions and graphics (the 'website' that you see in the casino client window, basically), and someone at MG HQ dropped a bit of a clanger today during a routine change and/or update. As far as I can tell you've got multiple casinos (all of them?) being served from the same web farm, probably just with their own websites in a single instance of IIS, all of which will just have their own folder locally. (I think this is far more likely.)
Overall - I think this just gives us a graphical representation of stuff that we already knew.
I hope they're more careful with the databases than they are with the web servers though....
EDIT - Changed the bit at the start about it being 'alarming' to 'interesting', as I wrote my post I realised it was basically stuff we already knew![]()
How can such an issue link pages from completely different casinos, on different servers, and in different jurisdictions
It suggests to me that things "under the bonnet" are not as they seem, or portrayed to players.
I understood that each MGS casino was it's own ringfenced instance on it's own server, operated and maintained by MGS on behalf of the operator and located in the operator's jurisdiction. Each players' account and it's games also being unique instances on the relevant casino server.
Where has it ever said that?
I always worked on the assumption that MG held everything centrally, I suspect that when any MG casino client makes a request for a result from a game, it all basically goes to the same place.... It's actually a more secure approach than having hundreds of servers dotted all over the world, truth be told.

Uhmm.. last I heard was they pulled those games due to copyright issues.. Ofcourse it would fall on deaf ears ..
Nate
Hi Guys,
Following the speculation on this thread I thought best to pop back in and give an explanation as I know it - I'll caveat my response beforehand by saying I am not that technically minded but I do 'kind of' understand how this works!
Basically, the pages in the lobby of MG casinos are all controlled by redirects hosted by Microgaming. An operator provides the URLs of where the redirects should point.
For example, we would provide a URL for the message of the day, promotions page, loyalty etc and it would be all controlled by them.
E.g. We may provide Old / Expired Link but the client actually goes to www.mgurl.com/32red/promo.html to look this URL up first. As I understand it, the redirects for all MG casinos are managed in one DB - I don't know this for certain.
I think what happened this morning is that VPL requested a chnge to their redirect and it was applied to all redirects. It was picked up by them before being posted on here and rolled back pretty quickly.
I hope this makes sense and helps explain what happened. This redirect doesn't mean we are in any way connected to other MG operators aside from the fact we use their software which has redirects controlled centrally.
Mark
Hi Guys,
Following the speculation on this thread I thought best to pop back in and give an explanation as I know it - I'll caveat my response beforehand by saying I am not that technically minded but I do 'kind of' understand how this works!
Basically, the pages in the lobby of MG casinos are all controlled by redirects hosted by Microgaming. An operator provides the URLs of where the redirects should point.
For example, we would provide a URL for the message of the day, promotions page, loyalty etc and it would be all controlled by them.
E.g. We may provide Old / Expired Link but the client actually goes to www.mgurl.com/32red/promo.html to look this URL up first. As I understand it, the redirects for all MG casinos are managed in one DB - I don't know this for certain.
I think what happened this morning is that VPL requested a chnge to their redirect and it was applied to all redirects. It was picked up by them before being posted on here and rolled back pretty quickly.
I hope this makes sense and helps explain what happened. This redirect doesn't mean we are in any way connected to other MG operators aside from the fact we use their software which has redirects controlled centrally.
Mark
For example, we would provide a URL for the message of the day, promotions page, loyalty etc and it would be all controlled by them.
E.g. We may provide Old / Expired Link but the client actually goes to www.mgurl.com/32red/promo.html to look this URL up first. As I understand it, the redirects for all MG casinos are managed in one DB - I don't know this for certain.

Hi Guys,
Following the speculation on this thread I thought best to pop back in and give an explanation as I know it - I'll caveat my response beforehand by saying I am not that technically minded but I do 'kind of' understand how this works!
Basically, the pages in the lobby of MG casinos are all controlled by redirects hosted by Microgaming. An operator provides the URLs of where the redirects should point.
For example, we would provide a URL for the message of the day, promotions page, loyalty etc and it would be all controlled by them.
E.g. We may provide Old / Expired Link but the client actually goes to www.mgurl.com/32red/promo.html to look this URL up first. As I understand it, the redirects for all MG casinos are managed in one DB - I don't know this for certain.
I think what happened this morning is that VPL requested a chnge to their redirect and it was applied to all redirects. It was picked up by them before being posted on here and rolled back pretty quickly.
I hope this makes sense and helps explain what happened. This redirect doesn't mean we are in any way connected to other MG operators aside from the fact we use their software which has redirects controlled centrally.
Mark
How can such an issue link pages from completely different casinos, on different servers, and in different jurisdictions
It suggests to me that things "under the bonnet" are not as they seem, or portrayed to players.
I understood that each MGS casino was it's own ringfenced instance on it's own server, operated and maintained by MGS on behalf of the operator and located in the operator's jurisdiction. Each players' account and it's games also being unique instances on the relevant casino server.
got me worrying for a bit there, I cannot even download the the 32 red casino as soon as i hit the install button nothing happens, ladbrooks is fine, nothing showing up on my ladbrooks screen, also played 32red in flash mode and nothing came up

have to wait and see what happens.So im not the only one that this is happening to.
Had an issue where my lobby wasnt updating with the new Jan/Feb games (Nedplay updated fine) , i uninstalled and tried to reinstall, got that error.
Got told to do a full wipe of the program, cache etc and try reinstall, no good either, still no fix. Can only play mobile or flash
Been emailing support back and forth with various details they ask for during the past few weeks.
have to wait and see what happens.

Speaking with help is like talking to a brick wall, Yes they do try and help but not that it ever works, Yes I done the same thing, deleted and would not load back up, I even reinstalled operating system, and still no go, what operating system do you use? I got xp pro and someone said this is the problem, as tried it on 3 diffrent computers all running pro and did not work, Time for an upgrade I think![]()
