One thing that burns my ass when I'm playing slot games is waiting forever for free spins and then the spins hit nothing. I know it happens from time to time but when you're playing multiline slot games the only way to really win is to get these free spins and then hit something when you get them.
To me it really makes no difference if I made a half decent withdrawal once or twice in the last few months. I'd still like to see bonus features that normally pay something not normally crap out.
I don't want to turn this into another variance discussion because in my opinion the variance comes from the fact that during regular spins almost everything you hit pays a portion of your wager and unless you get these free spins you're just going to go broke. Hit the free spins, get a bonus feature with a multiplier and finally make some money. That's the way it's usually worked for me. If anyone's going to tell me the only way to win anything is to hit the highest paying lines during the free spin with the multiplier repeatedly to come out ahead then I don't consider that high variance. I consider that unfair and really bad odds.
End of Variance discussion.
The problem I find at 3Dice is that 98% of my spins hit crap when I'm playing a bonus feature. It's hard enough to hit them in the first place and when I finally do it's a little disappointing when as many as 30 or 40 free spins pays 4x my wager.
Tonight on one deposit I had free spins in Coral Clams that paid a 4x my wager on 7 free spins with a 6x multiplier. Payola I had 16 free spins with a 4x multiplier and a 16 spin retrigger with 2x and managed to win 5 bucks. Fortune Falls finally hit a bonus after 104 spins and paid 6x my wager. I had one good bonus feature that paid well in Tutankhamon and my next free spin bonus on a 50 cent wager with 20 free spins and a 6x multiplier won $2.68.
I have questioned many times why everytime I get a free spin bonus none of the spins will even pay 1x my wager and I get the standard casino response, If you don't like our games don't play here. I guess that's not bad advice. Not exactly the answer I was looking for though. I guess they're getting kind of tired of the question. Which doesn't surprise me because I'm getting kind of tired of asking it.
I guess what really sparked the rant was the way I seem to be told it's ok for free spins to perpetually crap out deposit after deposit as long as I've won something recently or sometime in the past. If I get up a little bit that doesn't necessarily mean I have to crap out every bonus feature until I'm back down. There was a time when I used to gamble online and free spin bonuses used to mean something. These days when I hit them I'm more surprised when they pay than when they don't. In my opinion if every free spin bonus wins less than it cost to hit it then spinning the slots is a complete waste of time. I can understand once or twice but it shouldn't be the norm.
To me it really makes no difference if I made a half decent withdrawal once or twice in the last few months. I'd still like to see bonus features that normally pay something not normally crap out.
I don't want to turn this into another variance discussion because in my opinion the variance comes from the fact that during regular spins almost everything you hit pays a portion of your wager and unless you get these free spins you're just going to go broke. Hit the free spins, get a bonus feature with a multiplier and finally make some money. That's the way it's usually worked for me. If anyone's going to tell me the only way to win anything is to hit the highest paying lines during the free spin with the multiplier repeatedly to come out ahead then I don't consider that high variance. I consider that unfair and really bad odds.
End of Variance discussion.
The problem I find at 3Dice is that 98% of my spins hit crap when I'm playing a bonus feature. It's hard enough to hit them in the first place and when I finally do it's a little disappointing when as many as 30 or 40 free spins pays 4x my wager.
Tonight on one deposit I had free spins in Coral Clams that paid a 4x my wager on 7 free spins with a 6x multiplier. Payola I had 16 free spins with a 4x multiplier and a 16 spin retrigger with 2x and managed to win 5 bucks. Fortune Falls finally hit a bonus after 104 spins and paid 6x my wager. I had one good bonus feature that paid well in Tutankhamon and my next free spin bonus on a 50 cent wager with 20 free spins and a 6x multiplier won $2.68.
I have questioned many times why everytime I get a free spin bonus none of the spins will even pay 1x my wager and I get the standard casino response, If you don't like our games don't play here. I guess that's not bad advice. Not exactly the answer I was looking for though. I guess they're getting kind of tired of the question. Which doesn't surprise me because I'm getting kind of tired of asking it.
I guess what really sparked the rant was the way I seem to be told it's ok for free spins to perpetually crap out deposit after deposit as long as I've won something recently or sometime in the past. If I get up a little bit that doesn't necessarily mean I have to crap out every bonus feature until I'm back down. There was a time when I used to gamble online and free spin bonuses used to mean something. These days when I hit them I'm more surprised when they pay than when they don't. In my opinion if every free spin bonus wins less than it cost to hit it then spinning the slots is a complete waste of time. I can understand once or twice but it shouldn't be the norm.