I will stick around, the forum needs a bit of balance and negativity
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Conline gambling has gone downhill so badly in the last couple of years. The experience is a million miles from the enjoyable pastime it was when I started.
Back then losing £60 was considered a really bad session, and they were rare, and I would still have seen some bonus rounds and fluctuation with regards to my balance, (no, I don’t mean I was unsteady on my feet).
Nowadays, I often found that you could deposit £300 without seeing a bonus……300 ****in quid, and £100 was standard. I mean…..that’s a bloody joke. But no, Snorky is seeing things, these things aren’t really happening, he’s suffering with gamblers bias, etc, etc, etc.
Well, I know what I was definitely seeing, and that’s my bank balance decline rapidly and for no enjoyment whatsoever. In fact, the opposite, it became torturous, something that only a person with a false sense of perception would continue to partake in.
I know that I’ve banged the same drum for ever but the only reason is because I can see what’s happening and it’s as plain as day….but a lot of others seem to think I’m imagining things.
Everything in life has a peak time, an optimum level, a saturation point if you like. I believe that online gambling reached its peak a while back. This would be backed up when you look at what Casinos used to give as incentives. Free spins galore,100% deposit bonuses etc. Now what do you get? 5 free spins at 10p, if you’re lucky. Reduced rtp’s and so on.
Why would Casinos do that if the business was still growing? Quite simple, because it isn’t, it’s dying on its arse and rapidly. To maintain profitability Casinos have to take more off the players that are left and that is exactly what they are doing.
The same happened with FOBTS in the HighStreet bookmakers. When they came out, there would be players queuing to play them. Waiting desperately for a player to lose their money, so they could move in and lose theirs. People were throwing money away like it was going out of fashion. That was until they peaked/ hit the optimum level, I mentioned.
By that, I mean the people that were going to play them were doing so or had done so. Players don’t have inexhaustible funds with which to play so people were starting to self-exclude and for a while it’s possible that there were still more new players than players that were quitting.
Of course, there then comes a time when that statistic peaks and goes the other way. Once there are more quitting than starting, the business has a problem. To maintain profitability and sustainability, they have to take more off the players that remain.
IMO, this is where Online Gaming is at and has been for a while. Coupled with the fact that the market became saturated, which meant that the pie wasn’t large enough for everyone to get a slice of the required size, has contributed to where it is now.
As I stated, the time to get out was probably a couple of years back and it has got progressively and noticeably worse by the week since then. It will only continue to get worse for the player, I guarantee that.
All you folks that have played for a fair while, think back to how the experience used to feel and ask yourself the question. When was the last time you made a deposit and had a session where the slots seemed “like they were on fire”?
Can’t remember eh? Probably not because it just doesn’t happen nowadays.
