If I am correct in my assumption, SuperFive was most likely an underperforming game. The games that are introduced need to have an appeal to them... Yes, SuperFive did have an enormous jackpot, but as correctly pointed out above, it hadn't been hit for almost 2 years.
The progressive amount will be spent on boosting the casino wide random jackpot starting tomorrow. Got that confirmed by CS yesterday.
Which is a bunch of garbage if it is the same way as before where a wheel pops up and gets spun and lands on someones name.
It has always been this way Silc. Ever since the random jackpot was started at 3Dice this has always been the way the jackpot (and the daily depositor sweepstakes, when those were turned on) was awarded. If you think it's bad having your name passed by every time, try having your name being one away from the winner - there's a heart stopper for you
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And your statement isn't necessarily true - a lot of people have played SuperFive over the 3 years it's been there, myself included, which means any one of the players who have had the thought of hitting that jackpot still have a chance at winning (at least a part of) it. I admit, it was a fun game to have such a small bet produce sometimes a giant return, but times (and player's habits) change... And besides, Enzo said in the newsletter that it may return someday as an enhanced version.
There are lots of ways of being "random". Since most (if not all) three-reelers are weighted, they could have changed the weighting so that it would pop sooner (in all probability), or even set it to go off on or by a certain date, which I'm sure would have attracted a great deal of interest and play on the machine.
If they altered the weighting,
and made it known that they were doing that, it would be unfair to each and every one of the players who had played it up to that point. If they made it go off on a certain date, no one would play it until the day it was set to go off (what's the point chasing a jackpot that is
guaranteed not to hit?)
just wondering how right it is to take a Jackpot from 1 game an put it on another
At least they are doing an honorable thing and
still giving the jackpot away, albeit in a slightly different manner. I'm sure if they said "We're retiring SuperFive and screwing you out of the jackpot too" an uproar and a half would occur. At least this way, the jackpot is still being awarded.
I'm sure there's a lot of people who could talk until they're blue in the face about how it's not right, how this could have been done, how that could have been done, etc... but the simple fact is, if the game isn't up to (most) player's standards, and the casino's profitability standards, then why keep it? If only a few people are playing a game that was designed to appeal to the masses, retire it, give it a face-lift, and re-introduce it as a bigger and better version a little later on down the road.
I honestly don't see a problem with what they are doing.