Yes, that is the makeover I am referring too and yes, the other games mentioned have suffered the same fate.
As Kenny says, Bonanza can still be okay but good sessions are few and far between. The sessions where you perhaps wouldn’t win or lose much but could have 2 or 3 hours entertainment have gone.
What you will notice is that your deposit either disappears in an instant or it climbs quite quickly. One thing that is almost set in stone, is that if you do win a certain amount but then it starts to go south, you will very rarely recover it. It just goes into death mode, which tells you it’s not random.
I could pull up 10+ x1,000s and if I can be bothered sometime, I will post them. I could also work out my average amount of bonuses per month and the average they paid and I know without looking that it’s declined massively since April.
You will also remember that I used to regularly post between 5-10 bonus shots from a session. That NEVER happens now, with 5 being about the max but with a much lower average being won.
You only have to look at this thread to see what has happened. The players that have come and gone and the lack of screenshots showing anything above x500. Previously there would be numerous posts almost daily of big hits.
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@PMKFRUITPRO, you have stated for long enough that the Hills version is bent but you continue to play there? I know you’re kind of thinking it must change. I did the same with SKY for a while because I had hit decent bonuses at every site apart from that one (never played at Hills).
I kept playing, thinking it must come but it never did and as we had already established that their version was different to all others, I just made the odd deposit to see if it would eventually produce but it didn’t so I gave up.
When it comes to “getting away with it”. I am not sure but the one link, I have always made is the one to FOBTS and the link is as direct as you can get. They have been blatantly ripping customers off since day 1 and got away with it. Nobody has successfully ever challenged them.
I am extremely doubtful as to whether auditing is ever carried out to the level that we would like or trust and even if it was, the nature of how it all works could cover a multitude of sins.
Even in it’s most simplistic form, how many Casinos have Bonanza? Let’s just pluck a figure out of the air for arguments sake, 200.
Okay so what is certain, is that the same Company will not audit all 200 Casinos. Now Bonanza is the name of “A” slot that people play so the way I see it is because it’s supposedly all random, then if Casino A has the game running at 86%, then if everything was legit, other Casinos would be running slightly higher to bring it all inline to the 96% it should be running at.
The problem here, even if they were audited properly, is that the Auditors of Casino A do not have access to other Casinos accounts so the enquiry ends there.
Take the other scenario, that each Casino runs it own version and should independently payout 96%. Well the problem here is, the game is supposedly random so if checked at any given point it could read anything as it may have just paid out (cough, splutter) or it may have been taking for a while (the more likely).
Okay so what happens next? Well, perhaps the auditor says, we want to check that again in 6 months time. Okay not a problem they can take it down, give it a revamp and everything will look okay.
The thing is, with around 3,000 slots to choose from the samples will only be a few random ones. Simple fix, all slots chosen that are not performing correctly get a makeover and the others continue to take punters for a ride.
I am not saying this is how it happens. I honestly don’t know but what I am trying to portray is that the possibilities of avoiding accusations of any wrongdoing are endless and probably impossible to investigate properly. All in all, do you trust an Industry where billions of pounds are involved and to stay in the game, you have to compete. In any Industry, corners will be cut and rules broken where a Company can do so without much risk of getting caught.
If I was looking to run a dodgy set up where millions of pounds couldn’t properly be traced, I wouldn’t look any further than online gaming, believe me.
