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Yes, all this, needs a new certificate is bullshit. These games are regularly taken down and tweaked. That’s why there are different versions but the public are never told why or what was done. If it’s all fair and above board and nothing untoward has taken place then why not tell us? I mean transparency would create customer confidence in the brand.
It was the same when FOBTS appeared in betting shops and it was widely stated and accepted as a rule, that the servers for these games had to be “offshore”.
It was a total myth, absolute bollox but was anyone ever taken to task over it? No of course not. It was a license to print money, an absolute scam. The biggest open con of all time, that was actually self-policed.
Can you believe that? A multibillion gambling industry that was allowed to be self-policed. That’s is why, when the government actually realised how bad it had become, they had to listen and eventually, (even though they would have preferred not to for tax reasons), reduce the max bet.
It just shows how severe the fixing of these FOBTS was, I mean to reduce the max bet from £100 to £2 is beyond severe and just highlighted the severity of gambling problems and debt that FOBT roulette has caused in the previous 15 years.
The reason, I elude to this scenario is because with each day, I see online gambling becoming more and more like a seaside arcade, where everything is screwed down to the max, ensuring holiday makers leave all their dollars behind.
Yes folks, the good old days, where it genuinely felt you were at least playing games with a 96% rtp have long gone. As the market has got tighter and everyone wants a piece of the pie, the actual pie isn’t large enough to feed the scavenging vultures so naturally they resort to underhanded tactics.
Again, who’s fault is that really, Governing bodies (or lack of). I think one of the biggest problems is, there are too many games out there.
Here is an alternative reason as to why games might appear to have severely reduced rtp’s,
Forget what anybody tells you, games are not random and bonus rounds are pre-determined. I am sorry to have to keep reiterating this but some people are slow learners. Games are, what’s known as super compensated so in the old days people would work out roughly how much a machine needed to take before dropping the jackpot. For example £100-£125 fed through normally triggered the jackpot of £25 or hot streak.
Of course things have moved on since then and it would be useless having that type of game online as there are too many smart players out there nowadays.
Enter, the super compensated era. These games work on the same principle but the trigger point for decent wins is unknown because it doesn’t always take the same amount to trigger a decent win. The games can take £500 and pay out £300 and then take £1,000 and pay out £20 and there’s nothing you can do about it because that’s deemed “fair”.
The reason they might seem to have a reduced rtp is because obviously wins are still triggered by the volume of money the game is taking so when a game is at its pinnacle and height of popularity, it will be having more money pumped through it so the wins will be more frequent and you will see the games full array of graphic displays and 9 scatter triggers etc.
But as the novelty wears off and players move on the volume of cash being played through decreases. Let’s remember there are some huge gamblers out there. Imagine someone putting £50,000 through Bonanza in a day and losing it (and believe me that will have happened and worse). All the small punters get huge hits of £100-£500, to keep them happy and the Casino still keeps a profit.
Eventually that big player moves on, All of a sudden, there is 50k per day less going into the pot. It’s going to have a massive impact on how the game plays and the rewards available. So as more and more games are released the thinner and thinner money gets spread, which from a players point of view is the worst thing that can happen.
It was the same when FOBTS appeared in betting shops and it was widely stated and accepted as a rule, that the servers for these games had to be “offshore”.
It was a total myth, absolute bollox but was anyone ever taken to task over it? No of course not. It was a license to print money, an absolute scam. The biggest open con of all time, that was actually self-policed.
Can you believe that? A multibillion gambling industry that was allowed to be self-policed. That’s is why, when the government actually realised how bad it had become, they had to listen and eventually, (even though they would have preferred not to for tax reasons), reduce the max bet.
It just shows how severe the fixing of these FOBTS was, I mean to reduce the max bet from £100 to £2 is beyond severe and just highlighted the severity of gambling problems and debt that FOBT roulette has caused in the previous 15 years.
The reason, I elude to this scenario is because with each day, I see online gambling becoming more and more like a seaside arcade, where everything is screwed down to the max, ensuring holiday makers leave all their dollars behind.
Yes folks, the good old days, where it genuinely felt you were at least playing games with a 96% rtp have long gone. As the market has got tighter and everyone wants a piece of the pie, the actual pie isn’t large enough to feed the scavenging vultures so naturally they resort to underhanded tactics.
Again, who’s fault is that really, Governing bodies (or lack of). I think one of the biggest problems is, there are too many games out there.
Here is an alternative reason as to why games might appear to have severely reduced rtp’s,
Forget what anybody tells you, games are not random and bonus rounds are pre-determined. I am sorry to have to keep reiterating this but some people are slow learners. Games are, what’s known as super compensated so in the old days people would work out roughly how much a machine needed to take before dropping the jackpot. For example £100-£125 fed through normally triggered the jackpot of £25 or hot streak.
Of course things have moved on since then and it would be useless having that type of game online as there are too many smart players out there nowadays.
Enter, the super compensated era. These games work on the same principle but the trigger point for decent wins is unknown because it doesn’t always take the same amount to trigger a decent win. The games can take £500 and pay out £300 and then take £1,000 and pay out £20 and there’s nothing you can do about it because that’s deemed “fair”.
The reason they might seem to have a reduced rtp is because obviously wins are still triggered by the volume of money the game is taking so when a game is at its pinnacle and height of popularity, it will be having more money pumped through it so the wins will be more frequent and you will see the games full array of graphic displays and 9 scatter triggers etc.
But as the novelty wears off and players move on the volume of cash being played through decreases. Let’s remember there are some huge gamblers out there. Imagine someone putting £50,000 through Bonanza in a day and losing it (and believe me that will have happened and worse). All the small punters get huge hits of £100-£500, to keep them happy and the Casino still keeps a profit.
Eventually that big player moves on, All of a sudden, there is 50k per day less going into the pot. It’s going to have a massive impact on how the game plays and the rewards available. So as more and more games are released the thinner and thinner money gets spread, which from a players point of view is the worst thing that can happen.
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