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Announcing the Launch of Wizard Gaming - A new software provider!

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We are proud to announce that after two years of development and a large development budget Wizard Gaming's new online casino software has now gone live.

You can see more about us on our website at:

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Our first live operator is:

Gold Rock Casino
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We have chosen to focus on slots initially. We felt this was the area where we could add the most to what is already available to players. Table games will follow later this Fall.

A lot of resources have been devoted to each slot game and we hope that you, the player, will enjoy our slots!

If you have any feedback or suggestions for us please let us know!

Getting feedback from our players is important to us and we will use it to make our software better.

Making our games entertaining for our players and otherwise delivering what our players and operators want is a priority for us.

We know trust is important from the players that use our software. So we have taken these steps to hopefully earn this trust:

- Our operators will be licensed in Netherlands Antilles

- Our RNG has been independently tested by iTech Labs. You can see our testing certificate here:

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The principals of our company have been in igaming for many years. I've asked Dominique to post a reference for us on the board so you can know that we are trustworthy.
 
Interesting. I will check it out and then post my oppinion.

I do not understand the T&C regarding the bonus system.

Lets say you deposit 50$ and get 50$ bonus. You then play and lose until you are you only have 50$ left which is the bonus money.
If you win when playing with the bonus credits all winnings will also be credited as bonus credits. This way you will never be able to win any non-bonus money... Is this correct? (Let me just say I do not hope this is true...). Is there missing information that if bonus credited exceeds the remaining wagering requirement bonus, then it will be credited to the cast balance?

I also have a few questions about the video-slots (5 reel slots).

Are the reels unweighted and not correlated?

Ie. reel 1 can have up to lets say 30 positions (some symbols appear multiple times) and each position is equally likely?
Same goes for reel2-reel5 though they do not all need to have same number of symbols as reel 1.
 
On your bonus question, in that scenario, as you keep wagering, money will be transfered from bonus to cash (in $5 segments, subject to the bonus' playthrough requirements). So, you will definitely be able to convert your bonus winnings to cash.
 
Wizardgaming said:
On your reel question, that description is correct. Our video and classic slots are modelled after real slot machines and behave similarily.
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Classic and video slots do not behave similary.. Classic 3 reels slot are weighted while video slots are not. And this was actually why video-slots was made. To simulate a long reel unweighted reel.
 
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Review of Wizard Gaming casino software

Well, here is my first impression of the casino. I always find it interesting when I try new casino software for the first time.

Lobby options:
This works very well. It does reminds me a little of MG though because of the left menu and swapping game-image on mouseover. The games are easy to find. The playcheck/game history is very nice and detailed. But the casino needs more deposit options, but this will come eventually I guess. Only accepting Master/visa/Ipoint deposit is a little limited. Live chat responded within 10 seconds.


Video-slots:
I played every video slot except a very few and I managed to hit all pick and freespins features on every videoslots that had this.

First the good stuff. The themes are very good, varied and original. The symbol-graphics and slot-GUI is acceptable. The sound-effects/music
is mostly acceptable. I really liked the "Lizard Lounge" music.

But the spinning motion of the reels does need improvement. It just looks like every reel is scrolling down excactly 4 positions on every spin. This does not give the true impression of a video-slot with long reels. You should be able to see the symbols of the reel when they are spinning. Also the timing when they stop is exactly the same. A little variation would be appricated and would also make it more realistic.

Now for the bad news. Every single video slot is what 'we' (The Casino Meister slot-nerds community) describe as ultra low variance slots. Low variance slots do not offer much surprise and players soon realize they are not able to hit any really good wins on that slot. There is no wild-multiplier
and also no freespin multiplier. I have attached a screenshot of a simple slot(no features). As you can see there is really nothing interesting you can hit. 5 scatters is 100*bet-size is the best you can hope for. 5 wilds is only 2500 coins. But luckily it should be very easy to change this. Just change the reels and paytable of the slot. Rival Software made exactly the same mistake when they opened and indeed they did change the slot quickly when they heard the player responses. Luckily it should be very simple to change this. Just redefine the reels/paytable to make they high variance.

Also with no multipliers the slots are a little dull. Wild-multiplier and freespin multiplier does make the slots more fun. Every single freespin feature has no multiplier besides they only seem to give between 2 and 10 freespins. This is not exciting at all. I do know that to change this you have to make the feature much harder to hit. Normal video-slot parameters are 1/100 to 1/200 for hitting a feature each spin. This way the features can be more generous also.

All non-freespins feature are also the same on all slots. It is just a picking feature where each pick reveals a small price and you can pick until you hit the wrong one. I think you need slots with some more advanced slot features, like expanding wilds etc.. The themes are good but behind the themes the video slots are just combinations of 0,1 or 2 features where the features are always 2 to 10 freespins (no multiplier) or the same picking bonus game.

I know this sounds a little harsh, but remember this is extremely easy to change. This is basically just configuration where you have to change
a very few numbers behind the scene and nothing generally in the software(codebase).

If you want a more detailed description on some of my points, you can just PM me and I will be happy to talk to you.
 
Glad you liked the slots and the themes Zoozie.

Gold Rock will be adding more payment methods shortly.

We will be having progressive games come out shortly and a lot more bonus rounds variations are in the pipeline.

I will talk to our development team about your other suggestions and come back once I've had a chance to visit with them.

We will spend a long time continuing to develop the software so feedback like this helps a lot.
 
tim5ny said:
You taking New York scum?
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anniemac said:
Looked at the website. Doesn't even say US OK. Limited deposit options - Visa, Neteller, Ewalletexpress and something else but can't remeber. Limited withdrawals options - check, Neteller, Ewalletexpress and wire transfer.

Not good for me.
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This miniature pic on the bottom of their page says it all. Yet another casino that's too chicken to step into the USA market. Where would we be without MG?

And when are casinos going to learn that it's NOT illegal (except for the banned states) to gamble online? The only ones at risk are the payment processors.
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anniemac said:
Looked at the website. Doesn't even say US OK. Limited deposit options - Visa, Neteller, Ewalletexpress and something else but can't remeber. Limited withdrawals options - check, Neteller, Ewalletexpress and wire transfer.

Not good for me.
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Not good for me either... but annie if you scroll all the way down to the bottom there is a little .. tiny american flag with a line thru it.. No USA. (again :mad:)
 
I just downloaded and played Gold Rock for fun (and a $7 freebie!) The games are nice, the graphics and sound are really good and I like the selection of different lined slots, but I agree with Zoozie's points - a multiplier during free spins would liven things up a bit, and the reels spinning/stopping is slightly strange. Also I personally don't like having a 'stop spin' button, I find it annoying and unnecessary, but that's just me. ;)

Technically everything ran pretty smoothly, the games downloaded quickly and everything did what it was supposed to do. Going from a game back to the lobby could be smoother, there seems to be a slight glitch/hiccup there but it's no big deal. The casino locked up once while going from play to real mode and I had to shut it down and restart, but I was doing some other stuff at the same time so it may have been something I did that caused it.

All in all, I liked it, I think they're off to a good start. Adding a couple progressive jackpots will be a good move, and I'd like to see a couple video pokers in the lineup too. They'll definately need some more deposit/withdrawal options though, at least Moneybookers and maybe even eWalletXpress before I'll be able to play there for real.
 
I agree with Chayton about the 'stop spin' button. This should not also be the spin button that does this, because very often you stop the spin button again by mistake.

Freespin multiplier and wild multiplier is the absolute minimum requirement. As it is getting the feature just give 5-6 freespins in average with no multiplier, this is a no-go for me. I recommend stacked wilds/expanding wilds as a minimum and in the near future more advanced/unique mechanics. But from my PMs with the representative, I understand they are changing most of the current slots and giving them a little more variance.

Normally there is huge interest in a new casino provider with video-slots, I had expected more people taking part of this discussion.
 
Zoozie said:
I agree with Chayton about the 'stop spin' button. This should not also be the spin button that does this, because very often you stop the spin button again by mistake.

Freespin multiplier and wild multiplier is the absolute minimum requirement. As it is getting the feature just give 5-6 freespins in average with no multiplier, this is a no-go for me. I recommend stacked wilds/expanding wilds as a minimum and in the near future more advanced/unique mechanics. But from my PMs with the representative, I understand they are changing most of the current slots and giving them a little more variance.

Normally there is huge interest in a new casino provider with video-slots, I had expected more people taking part of this discussion.
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Maybe if they took USA players then there would be more :)
 
Zoozie said:
Normally there is huge interest in a new casino provider with video-slots, I had expected more people taking part of this discussion.
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It's this little thing called 'time'.
I am very interested in this new software, but life is ridiculous (at least, mine is) and I simply don't have the time... :(

Maybe sometime next month...
 
As usual, great review Zoozie :thumbsup: I'm sure the folks at Wizard Gaming appreciate it.

As for the slots, I agree with Zoozie: the graphics and themes are decent - the artwork is good, but the slots should give more variety in action. I'm sure that reading some of the slot reviews/discussions, it's the bonus rounds that players find to be an important part of the game. And a lot of players like high variance with a chance for a big payout.

@Wizard gaming - there are a number of very helpful threads and polls buried in the "Online Casinos" forum which discusses game play in slots. You may want to do some searching. I'm sure you'll find it beneficial :D
 
I have been contacted several times over PM by Wizard Gaming with questions
from the development people also. Though I gave a harsh review they are
still open minded and taking my critic serious. I find this open communication a good start for the casino provider. Openess is important to gain the trust of players in my opinion.

Still they can not do miracles in a week until next release, but they are aiming for at least making wild multiplier/freespin multipliers modifications to existing slots.

I am surprised they got this far without really researching the video-slot market or at least looking at the competion eigther online or at B&M casinos. I would not be happy with the video-slot consultants if they used such.
 
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I tried some of these slots in fun mode, and I agree with Zoozie...they need to be made more interesting to the players. (higher variance=chance of hitting a decent win=more interesting). Hitting freespin after freespin round, without actually getting anything from them, is just no fun.
I'm sorry to say, I was litterally bored half to death in 30 minutes (maybe a little harsh, but...), but I'll certainly keep an eye out for any improvements.
Any new software provider will get my attention, since competition, in my view, can only benefit the players, because everyone then need to be on their toes, to keep players interested.
Keep up the good work Wizard :)
 
I got a bonus round (free spins) once on only one of the games, and it paid out about 25x bet size. I never got any bonus rounds on any of the others so I wasn't aware that all the bonus rounds were the same - I think personally I could deal with the games being clones of each other during regular play if the bonus rounds were mixed up a bit. Throw in some expanding wilds on a few, everyone loves those. And if you have to pick free spins it would definately be more fun if you had the option of x spins @ x multiplier (ala Dragon's Loot or Shiver me Timbers) - as long as there's not a ONE free spin @ ONE x multiplier - that just p*sses me off! :D

Zoozie I'm glad they're talking to you about this, I'd love to see this software go somewhere. :thumbsup:
 
I can't comment alot on the games as I only played one....(happily ever after) as I saw the free spin feature.I was going to comment on the time it took to download this game.Ok I'm on dial-up and use to slowish d-loads but this game took 1& 1/2 hrs.I was having heart palpitations near the end...;).I don't think it was my connection and went to the site just now to double check the d-load time.I see now that not only one game was d-loaded but two! ( also 20,000 leagues).I guess this explains why it took so long to d-load ( what I thought was) one game .I'm sure most people have high speed connections and might not notice the longer d-load time.I don't think I've ever seen a site that installs/d-loads two games at once?.Anywho........good luck Gold Rock on the casino!
 
I have a few comments so far:
1. If I try to change the denomination several times fast, then every second click is ignored. The third one and the fifth one has effect, the second and the fourth is not taken. Same holds for select lines button.
2. In Keep'n it reel I don't like the black background together with the sharp contrast of symbols borders. Feels like there's a big black hole in the background when I'm playing a slot machine.

Edit: and one more, the latest denomination is not remembered.
Edit: another, in Keep'n it reel I got 4 scatters, paytable says it's 18x, yet I was awarded 25x total bet.
Edit: the spin and stop spin button - and even the bet max button!!! - also reacts on right and middle mouse click. Someone accidentally right-clicks on betmax, and...

Given the above comments, I would consider disabling the real money play for now. The false scatter payout is a bit scary, although it favors the player.

One more, Lizard Lounge, the car scatter animations are played consecutively on each reel slightly after that particular reel stops. I mean for the second reel the fourth and fifth reels are still spinning when the animation for the second reel is played. As a consequence, there's a huge delay when you get the car on reel 4, because you are ready to spin, but the animation is still playing, and the spin button is not enabled as the stop spin buttons is shown, although the reels have already stopped. Now pressing the spin confuses the game, as the sw takes it as a spin and a stop spin and behaves accordingly. The same holds for Happily ever after, and I guess all games with reels 2-3-4 feature trigger with animation.
Happily ever after, when you have choosen the free spins you still have the cursor (stick) although you can't do nothing with it.

And one more, why the frogs are present during the free spins if bonus games can't be triggered during free spins?
 
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Wanted to thank everyone on the forum for their feedback on the software. It's been very useful for us to put the software out in front of everyone and the suggestions we have got have been most helpful and insightful!

Have had a chance to talk to our development team.

We will be improving the spinning motions of the reels for our next release which comes out shortly.

Progressive slots will be coming out with this release as well.

We will be able to make a number of our games into slots with different variance degrees with the release after this. (Some will become high variance and others very high variance for example)

For these games as well we will add free-spins with a wild multiplier or stacked multiplier.

By all means, if there are other areas we can improve the software in please let me know here or in PM.
 
I've tried to download the casino quite a few times but everytime I did it and after the downloading when you agree to the terms and condition, it always comes up that my C:\ is unavailable. Hahaha... that is soooo funny. Then it tells me to select another and then just ends prematurely. So I guess they don't really want/like me to give it a try after all.

Also, did anyone notice or was it just me that their call-centre is actually located in Nevada or at least their phone number is. 1-702-xxx-xxxx, are code 702 is Nevada. How interesting... wasn't there some problems with Nevada being a very noisy state when it comes to online gaming and stuff like that? Not sure if it's a good thing or not.

Anyways, I wish that someone could tell me what's wrong so at least I could see/try to see what the casino is like. Why am I getting the error?
 
gerilege said:
Edit: another, in Keep'n it reel I got 4 scatters, paytable says it's 18x, yet I was awarded 25x total bet.
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I heard back from our team on this, the paytable needs to be updated.

The game is paying out as it should but there was an error with what appeared in the paytable.

Thanks for catching this one gerilege.
 
The casino reminds me of the 7spins casino that opened up not long ago.
I myself found the bonus rounds not all that profitable. Graphics are much different then other casinos but as i said i found the payouts not all that great.
 
gerilege said:
One more, Lizard Lounge, the car scatter animations are played consecutively on each reel slightly after that particular reel stops. I mean for the second reel the fourth and fifth reels are still spinning when the animation for the second reel is played. As a consequence, there's a huge delay when you get the car on reel 4, because you are ready to spin, but the animation is still playing, and the spin button is not enabled as the stop spin buttons is shown, although the reels have already stopped. Now pressing the spin confuses the game, as the sw takes it as a spin and a stop spin and behaves accordingly. The same holds for Happily ever after, and I guess all games with reels 2-3-4 feature trigger with animation.
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I can describe probably a bit more detailed what I meant. It's for all scatter&bonus symbols. The point is that those symbols are always animating, also in that case when the feature or bonus can't be awarded. I mean for the cars, they should only be animated one-by-one until the feature is possible. I mean if (NumOfRemainingReelsWithScatter>RequiredNumberOfAdditionalScatters). In the car case they should only animate on reel3 if there was a scater on reel2, and should only animate on reel4 if there was a scatter on the other two reels. It should never animate in case when you get a scatter but it's impossible to get the feature. The really confusing part is when you get a car on reel 4 only, but still it's animating or you get a scatter only on reel 5, and yet it's animating, you haven't won anything, but you can't spin. It makes impossible to get in a good rythm with the mouse clicks when playing the game.

Another suggestion, please make the scatters and the wilds a bit more easier identifiable. On some games I got scatters and wilds, and I only realized from the payout that I won something. It should be an exciting moment, hey, I got two scatters or two wilds on the first two reels, I might hit something big. On some games it's fine, but the wild on the Genie themed slot is a bit problematic imho.

And please fix the right-click bug, it's dangerous in real money play.
 
Thanks for the feedback gerilege. I sent it on to development earlier today. In our next version as well we will have more visible and exciting wilds and scatters.

The stop spin feature did not seem to be a big hit by reading the comments on it here so it will be dropped from the next version too.

Also going will be the right-click issue.

I can't overstate how helpful everyone's suggestions here have been.

The next version is not far off so we won't be able to do everything we want to do for that version, but there will be many more versions to come that will get to a lot of the other suggestions here.
 
It makes impossible to get in a good rythm with the mouse clicks when playing the game.
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I got to play a few of these games and it is really irritating to have the scatter/bonus symbols animating when there is no hit and it takes away from the quick spin one likes to do just as gerilege said...one likes to get into a rhythm when one is spinning and it takes 2-3 extra clicks on the spin button to get it going again (each and every time after the previous spin).

This is due to the non winning animations that are just irritating...having the non winning animations (not the symbol) not animate would be a benefit to the casino cause many of us just like to pace ourselves and think of all those clicks we are wasting without spending a dime trying to get it going again...thats a lot of money lost on the casinos end ..:D
 
Zoozie said:
Yes, I was wondering where you would be in this discussion... Thanks for telling why.
vinylweatherman, you following this?
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I am now.

The big danger here is changing the existing slots to make them better for players. This should be made clear with each new version that is released, so that players who have not seen this thread understand that the games are being changed for improvement, and not for any underhand purposes.

US being excluded. Having a TINY flag with a line through it is not really good enough, UNLESS the registration process is designed to block US players BEFORE they deposit real money, win, and then have their winnings confiscated because they didn't see a tiny flag with a line through it.

I am sure other countries are excluded, so it would be best to design a registration process that blocks registration from these countries from the outset, rather than having operators using such mis-registrations as cause to void winnings. Similarly, if several currencies are supported, have a means of preventing players from selecting a currency that their specific region is banned from using (this is usually the UK Pound that suffers exclusion).

Before parting with money, players need to know how they can be paid, so if an option used for deposits is NOT an option for withdrawals, say so!

As for the slots, 2 - 10 free spins and no multipliers or wilds would certainly have me rushing to watch my grass grow:D

Thought should also be given as to the promotions that will be offered to players, the software should be able to handle them. If wagering tournaments are going to be offered, the software should make it easy for a live scoreboard to be generated.

For players - transaction and gaming history. Option to download the numbers as comma separated text at least. Some players like to examine their overall play, put it into spreadsheets etc. With other softwares, this is such a PAIN!!
Reports of past overall game payouts, preferrably independently audited.

For the casino - work towards becoming Casinomeister Accredited.

Casino rep - Participating in the forum - already done, top marks:D
 
silcnlayc said:
USA! USA! USA!

Let's go USA!

I sure hate it when I can't play a game everyone is talking about! :mad:
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Hi Everyone ;)

I second this!! Dang! Everytime I see great games, BANG - No USA :mad:

Come On Casinos.. we don't bite. Much :D

And.. Yes, I am in Colorado, so we are legit for gambling.
 
gerilege said:
I can describe probably a bit more detailed what I meant. It's for all scatter&bonus symbols. The point is that those symbols are always animating, also in that case when the feature or bonus can't be awarded. I mean for the cars, they should only be animated one-by-one until the feature is possible. I mean if (NumOfRemainingReelsWithScatter>RequiredNumberOfAdditionalScatters). In the car case they should only animate on reel3 if there was a scater on reel2, and should only animate on reel4 if there was a scatter on the other two reels. It should never animate in case when you get a scatter but it's impossible to get the feature. The really confusing part is when you get a car on reel 4 only, but still it's animating or you get a scatter only on reel 5, and yet it's animating, you haven't won anything, but you can't spin. It makes impossible to get in a good rythm with the mouse clicks when playing the game.

Another suggestion, please make the scatters and the wilds a bit more easier identifiable. On some games I got scatters and wilds, and I only realized from the payout that I won something. It should be an exciting moment, hey, I got two scatters or two wilds on the first two reels, I might hit something big. On some games it's fine, but the wild on the Genie themed slot is a bit problematic imho.

And please fix the right-click bug, it's dangerous in real money play.
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Before I have development start to make changes on this, I wanted to confirm it with everyone that its ok that we have symbols animate where either a win has occurred or where a win is possible as gerilege describes above.

We have some symbols that we call pre-animations where there is a tiny bit of gesturing, would you like to see these only occur where there is a chance of a win still gerilege?

There was another post where slycin mentioned that they would prefer that animations only occurred with an actual win.

If anyone has some more thoughts on this, that would be great.
 
Wizardgaming said:
Before I have development start to make changes on this, I wanted to confirm it with everyone that its ok that we have symbols animate where either a win has occurred or where a win is possible as gerilege describes above.

We have some symbols that we call pre-animations where there is a tiny bit of gesturing, would you like to see these only occur where there is a chance of a win still gerilege?

There was another post where slycin mentioned that they would prefer that animations only occurred with an actual win.

If anyone has some more thoughts on this, that would be great.
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Case1:Win on a payline(non-scatter)
I prefer only animations if there was an actual win involved with these symbols. Do not animate wild unless it substituted in a win-line.

Case2: Scatters triggering feature or still paying something.
For scatters I only want them animated if they triggered a feature or a win. With a win I think of the situation when hitting less scatters than
required for the feature, but where they still does pay. (typical 2 scatters, where 3 is need for the feature).

Case3: Scatter animation when still spinning
This is when you hit some scatters and still have a chance to hit the feature due to scatters on reels to come. Normally a sound is played or reels
move slower to increase excitement. I like this idea. However if they did not trigger feature or pay anything there should be no animation or anything
after last reel has stopped.


But more generally I do like the mechanic where scatters only appear on reel 2,3,4 and you need 3 scatters to start the feature. There is too many slots with this mechanic. Scatters on all 5 reels is the more common and prefered.
 
Wizardgaming said:
Before I have development start to make changes on this, I wanted to confirm it with everyone that its ok that we have symbols animate where either a win has occurred or where a win is possible as gerilege describes above.

We have some symbols that we call pre-animations where there is a tiny bit of gesturing, would you like to see these only occur where there is a chance of a win still gerilege?

There was another post where slycin mentioned that they would prefer that animations only occurred with an actual win.

If anyone has some more thoughts on this, that would be great.
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Hi Wizardgaming, dont you see my post? :confused::eek: I cant register an account? I can download, but when start to connect the server, appear one error: and the casino close.
 
1366613 said:
Hi Wizardgaming, dont you see my post? :confused::eek: I cant register an account? I can download, but when start to connect the server, appear one error: and the casino close.
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You're not the only one with this problem. It doesn't seem to be very common though. Did you check your firewall settings?

There's supposed to be an update next week sometime, maybe you should try again after the update if your firewall settings aren't causing the problem.

Just a thought.
 

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