New Slot Announcement Bonanza by Big Time Gaming

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Base game win:

Another rather disappointing bonus round win:

 

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From the BTG website:

Players will think the game is broken when they see the multiplier keep rising during free spins, the mathematical set up in this game is leagues ahead of our competitors

Funnily enough, I had one viewer during my latest stream, when I was foolish enough (again!) to play this slot, asking the same. Not because of the increasing multiplier but he thought the slot was genuinely broke because he has not triggered a bonus yet despite having made thousands of spins.

This new way to engage viewers excited us and we really wanted to build a game for Twitch streamers, Bonanza can be commented on like a horse race in terms of the game action, so that streamers can really share the highs and lows of a phenomenal gaming experience with their viewers.

You didn't do your research. Twitch viewers don't want to watch over a thousand spins to see a bonus. They want to see games that trigger bonuses regularly and still have the potential rather than the snooze fest that Bonanza is turning out to be.

Since I have been including this game in my Twitch streams, I am getting player experiences posted that mirror mine. Where are those free spins and why do they pay so shite having to wait so long for them!

I know that the BTG representative (the owner I believe) reads this topic so may I please ask kindly again that he answers some of the queries that are being raised.

As I said before, we as customers deserve some answers to the below questions in my opinion.

(1) How many spins have your servers recorded on this game with real money
(2) What is the highest win multiplier given out by the game with real money
(3) What is the thought process creating a game that can go thousands of spins without a bonus and then for the bonus to pay less than 10x

Finally, responsible gaming is one of the responsibilities that a casino is to adhere to under the terms of their license. The same should apply to slot designers. This game is bordering on being a responsible game considering that all the money sits in the bonus round and that it can take an awful long time and a lot of money to trigger. You may have players chasing the bonus on this, for to be bitterly disappointed when it finally drops in. That is not responsible gambling.

 

[Jasminebed]

Whatever run I was on on this game has ran.

It sure was fun while it lasted, and I'm not giving up just yet, but I am for today.

This was the only win worthy of the thread, and I had two other bonus rounds that paid about 35x stake and 2x stake.



BTG, while I think it might be none of our business how many spins have been played, I too would like to know what the highest multiplier has been.

Something to aspire to perhaps.

And thank you very much for the competition. I'm enjoying the game, and it's joined my list of favourite games.

Despite it often taking a very long time to trigger a bonus, there's enough base game wins to keep you spinning usually, and I enjoy watching and hoping for the right symbol to fall in and give me another cascade.

Would also like to know what the average number of rounds to trigger a bonus is. I know even if a slot is on average 150 spins, it may be unusual but not rare to go 1000 or 1200 spins.

Appreciate all the answers you have given so far.

 

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Would also like to know what the average number of rounds to trigger a bonus is. I know even if a slot is on average 150 spins, it may be unusual but not rare to go 1000 or 1200 spins.

Appreciate all the answers you have given so far.

The thing is though, you don't mind crappy bonus wins if the bonus drops in regularly. Typical example of this is Steamtower.

But when it takes an awful long time you expect the bonus to be at least paying something. Novomatic has it about right. Not the easiest of slots to trigger a bonus but 8 out of 10 times it pays decent enough to have to wait for.

BTG missed a trick on this in my opinion. If bonuses regularly pay less than 50x (as they do) then drop them in more frequently.

 

[deepsky2]

I have played this game thousands of times and even though one can go along time with out triggering bonus I have had some great wins on .20cent bet up to 2.00 bet.

I love playing BTG slots there creative,fun and have huge potential wins. I wish Microgaming would clone something like this slot instead of the ol same crap they keep putting out.

There seems alot love/hate with this slot but I love it all the way and I think Buffalo Blitz is far worst in payouts. Free games do trigger more but I get crap 99 percent of the time and Im tired of all the Buffalos

landing on all reels except reel 1 and other times reels 2 giving you the idea you just mist a big win, this happens alot on this slot getting the heart rate up with disappointment.

Keep it up BTG love your slots!

I always bet $1 or 2$ unless I get low in funds. The other day won 139.00 on .20 bet

 

[Jasminebed]

The thing is though, you don't mind crappy bonus wins if the bonus drops in regularly. Typical example of this is Steamtower.

But when it takes an awful long time you expect the bonus to be at least paying something. Novomatic has it about right. Not the easiest of slots to trigger a bonus but 8 out of 10 times it pays decent enough to have to wait for.

BTG missed a trick on this in my opinion. If bonuses regularly pay less than 50x (as they do) then drop them in more frequently.

Admittedly, I do not have a huge sample, but I've only had one zero bonus round, and one at 2x, and another circa 10x. I'd have to say most have been over 50x, with a number around 30x, and more than a few over 100x.

I can't imagine it is all that exciting for people just watching twitchers though. Different when it's your own money, win or lose.

As you may know, I had two really big wins close together on StarQuest the day it came out, but that's truly an all or nothing game, nothing to keep you going, even a spin that wins less than your bet is not that common. And no bonus round per se, just the respins which usually end up going pfft.

I definitely prefer Bonanza, but I still like Dragonborn more.

 

[nikantw]

here are the +1000x wins? There should be atleast a few of them by now.

We have seen 4 here, 2 real, 2 fun (one is mine over 50k fun win). But truth is they are not much over 1000x.

 

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After yet another bonus round of under 50x (25x to be precise) that I had to wait 721 spins for, that is me done.

Not just with this slot, but for online slotting for a period of 30 days. Deposit limit set and reached.

Well done BTG, you just took the fun away from online gambling.

And if VS is reading this post, look at BTG's direction why you're not seeing any of my money for the foreseeable future.

Hope the designers of this slot sleep well at night, they created a monster here. A very dangerous monster.

Rant over now.... I said my piece so will continue reading in this topic only.

And for those playing it..... good luck.... and boy will you need it unlike any other slot you play.

 

[slot_zombie]

good luck.... and boy will you need it unlike any other slot you play.

So the other modern garbage is a walk in the park??

Sorry to hear of your losses on this slot.

 

[lockinlove]

After yet another bonus round of under 50x (25x to be precise) that I had to wait 721 spins for, that is me done.

Not just with this slot, but for online slotting for a period of 30 days. Deposit limit set and reached.

Well done BTG, you just took the fun away from online gambling.

And if VS is reading this post, look at BTG's direction why you're not seeing any of my money for the foreseeable future.

Hope the designers of this slot sleep well at night, they created a monster here. A very dangerous monster.

Rant over now.... I said my piece so will continue reading in this topic only.

And for those playing it..... good luck.... and boy will you need it unlike any other slot you play.

lol this slot made me restrict my deposit options to zero for 7 days.

 

[b3b44]

how many days left for this promo to end?

i have not posted any screenies yet lol

 

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So the other modern garbage is a walk in the park??

Sorry to hear of your losses on this slot.

Never said that other slots are a walk in the park. If you were to read the other posts (and there are plenty) of mine in this topic, you will see that other slots at least give you some entertainment and a fairer chance of game play. And that is all I am asking for.

If I were to continue playing this slot, I would overspent on my gambling budget. That I am not prepared to do. I rather play other slots that make the budget stretch but still are capable of decent wins that can get you ahead.

 

[Jasminebed]

Never said that other slots are a walk in the park. If you were to read the other posts (and there are plenty) of mine in this topic, you will see that other slots at least give you some entertainment and a fairer chance of game play. And that is all I am asking for.

If I were to continue playing this slot, I would overspent on my gambling budget. That I am not prepared to do. I rather play other slots that make the budget stretch but still are capable of decent wins that can get you ahead.

Well, it ain't Vikings go Bezerk! Decided I'd had enough play since it seemed my luck had run out on this. But even though I knew the game was evil, away I went.

 

[nikantw]

another 85x



87x

 

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Well, it ain't Vikings go Bezerk! Decided I'd had enough play since it seemed my luck had run out on this. But even though I knew the game was evil, away I went.

I heard about that reading the posts from lockinglove and will stay well clear from it. It helps that us UK players can't play Yggdrasil at Videoslots!!

 

[randomiam]

this is a turd

Goes 500 spins no feature then get a whole 20x bet in feature.
Gave this game alot of goes and so far not even one good session.

 

[lockinlove]

only slot in my life I have to bet this small on. Only had $25 to start with anyways from rake race and wouldnt have made it that far if my bet was any higher

159x

 

[lockinlove]

got this a few spins later. I agree with other it seems as though the fs come in clusters. crazy that both of these had retriggers which ive never had. And both paid piss poor considering This one just over 50x.

|Very frustrating and ridiculous game lol

 

[lockinlove]

annddd another one. Meant to raise my bet but oh well

135x

 

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only slot in my life I have to bet this small on. Only had $25 to start with anyways from rake race and wouldnt have made it that far if my bet was any higher

159x

You're lucky to have triggered the bonus with a starting balance of 125x bet size.

 

[lockinlove]

You're lucky to have triggered the bonus with a starting balance of 125x bet size.

very much so. Was down to $7 before they all dropped in. Then after those 3 bonuses went ice cold and went from $85 to $50 quickly and I left

I had many chances to hit a real monster but it just always misses.

Still waiting to see these so called monster wins

 

[elrudo]

Slot did well last night

 

[Adriana B]

Had 2 features before this that paid less then $2. LOL. At least this was a bit better

 

[colinsunderland]

so after playing over 1000 spins on this, finally hit the bonus, 298 x stake

 

[nikantw]

very much so. Was down to $7 before they all dropped in. Then after those 3 bonuses went ice cold and went from $85 to $50 quickly and I left

I had many chances to hit a real monster but it just always misses.

Still waiting to see these so called monster wins

All min bet, lost 20, another 20 and another 16 without any fs or hit over 20x, bad luck obviously, but I don't find DOA better. Lost 90 without any of the 5-7 fs rounds to pay more than 10x. And yes I did bet a bit more, 0.9 some times in DOA thinking I would finaly get a wild line.

In theory this can pay 100.000.000 x bet, and with real or demo money I will test that theory untill I get my monster!

 

[colinsunderland]

Played this all afternoon now, around 2000 spins since my screenshot, and down 80x stake since then.
4 more bonuses, paying 70x, 28x, 14x and 12x so think its time to say bye for now, if they drop any further on the bonuses I'll owe it money at the end!

 

[nutnut]

Played this today for first time, I got to say i love this game but boy is it frustrating waiting for bonus game. In end I hit this after 500 spins, which for 20p spin is decent enough, but I know this slot can suck you dry, but i love it. x20 multiplier in the end, i got excited i could hit big off that but not to be but decent balance.

 

[BrianGhattas]

I've been putting all the money from the free spins from VSO into Bonanza but still haven't hit a bonus yet. I don't know if I'm willing to blow $50 or $100 into this one. I would need to feel very lucky. It's a great slot, though.

 

[lockinlove]

What??? This was created for players on twitch? A slot with a bunch of 1x and 2x hits and thousands of spins without a bonus? All ive seen from people on twitch do about this game is complain lol. I think there is one who really loves it that I watched last week.

I just dont get why the industry makes these slots. "HUGE POTENTIAL" Yeah ok but it never hits that potential Still havent seen one from dragon born. Like come on here. You make a slot that takes on average 1200 spins-3000 spins to hit a feature that mostly pays 50x-100x. And 25% of the time under 50x. WTF is this.

I remember when DOA came out and it had this amount of play and there were dozens upon dozens of wild line and 5 scatter hit. And many 2000-8000x hits.

Its probably not played as much but its def play ALOT it should be spitting on quite a few big big hits.

Not even one yet to be found anywhere???

 

[lockinlove]

used my freespins up which got me $13 so I played this as usual with my freebies. Surprisingly that lasted me 271 spins on this on .20 bets. Of course no bonus and a loss tho. But didnt cost me anything really

 

[nikantw]

Well someone trully believes in this slots potential! VS just lowered max bet to 10!
What do you think? Is this going to be the 1st slot with max bet of 1?

My take on this is that this is unethical. You can't just lower max bet and not min bet, especially when min bet is 0.20. Its like you say to players "yes I want you to lose your money quickly but God forbit if you ever win big"!

 

[steveh35]

used my freespins up which got me $13 so I played this as usual with my freebies. Surprisingly that lasted me 271 spins on this on .20 bets. Of course no bonus and a loss tho. But didnt cost me anything really

I am a bit hooked by this game and I am also using my free winnings at 60p a go but not getting anywhere.I just has £15 from a surprise win on Zombies from my 60p win on book of dead free spins.

Bonanza quickly used the £15 up biggest win was £2 and i have never had free spin I think as the gameplay is very fast it obviously uses your money up quicker.

 

[Jasminebed]

Two from last night (or earlier today GMT)

Base game win x 60 and Bonus game 170 x stake

 

[nikantw]

Well someone trully believes in this slots potential! VS just lowered max bet to 10!

Wow. Dan just said he will return max bet to 100!!
Ok, I have personaly hit 600x base and x24 multiplier, with a 100 bet that is .... 1,440,000.00 !!

 

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Wow. Dan just said he will return max bet to 100!!
Ok, I have personaly hit 600x base and x24 multiplier, with a 100 bet that is .... 1,440,000.00 !!

He did say that but he also said that the max bet was lowered by BTG to 10 on all casinos.

So here we have BTG being able to remotely set the max bet level. What else can they remotely change on this game? Being able to turn the music on/off would be a good remote fix to start with.

Still no reply from the BTG representative to my questions and I am still searching for pictures, videos, reports for that mega win this slot theoretically is capable of spitting out. And with a mega win, I don't mean the mega or epic win animation this slot gives out for a 100x win.

 

[GoldenGhoul]

The damn feature is so hard to trigger and I just had a one with 11 empty spins and one 1,5x bet win The worst thing is what people here were mentioning already: the game is a bit addictive so I'll probably return to it. Still pissed off though

 

[zap987]

Good hit in base game, diamonds everywhere. 412x.

 

[BrianGhattas]

After getting a very good payout on my free spins of Lucky Wizard, I went straight to Bonanza and finally bonused it. First bonus was 51x and I also got some good base hits. I now have $40. Not enough to withdraw so it's Bonanza or bust.

 

[Jasminebed]

Couple from last night. Although I eventually busted out after raising bet to 60 cents and then $1, I only started with $1.74, so a nice couple of hours of fun:

 

[GoldenGhoul]

One picture from me, then. I'm lowrolling on this slot as it can be really brutal for me, would need a solid balance to go higher

 

[curremon]

fuck off bigtimegaming... really... it took again over 1200 spins to get feature and i got fucking retrigger for what ??? 18x bet !!!!!

 

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fuck off bigtimegaming... really... it took again over 1200 spins to get feature and i got fucking retrigger for what ??? 18x bet !!!!!

Welcome to the club. It really wants to make you put your fist through the screen doesn't it

 

[curremon]

Welcome to the club. It really wants to make you put your fist through the screen doesn't it

Only if it can reach people from big time gaming through the screen.. ive never been so pissed what i am when i play their "games"

 

[nikantw]

12 days left, all hits so far (only real money hits from screenshots/videos)

 

[JkG]

I like it ... I've had a few good sessions on it so far but played it all back in. Usually when bonus hit it was either a smallish 12eur win or a 75eur win.
Today was having a brutal time on Dead or alive
So switched to bonanza with 20eur left at .40cent bets
Anyway just took out 150 euro so I'm delighted
I was having a serious serious dry spell

 

[lockinlove]

Im gonna put on a couple hundred tonight and give it a go. Tried it earlier with some freespin wins. $4. .20 bets. Didnt end well. But thats expected with such a small amount.

 

[JkG]

Good luck!!!
I've 7quid left over but I will leave it there for a while I think and get some kip.
Night all x

 

[lockinlove]

160 spins in got the feature paid 124x and I did get another one 20 spins later but it paid 12x. I still stand by that this should not be allowed to happen. You make a slot where the features trigger on average 1200-3000 spins and make it pretty common to hit 10x or lower. Just not cool

 

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160 spins in got the feature paid 124x and I did get another one 20 spins later but it paid 12x. I still stand by that this should not be allowed to happen. You make a slot where the features trigger on average 1200-3000 spins and make it pretty common to hit 10x or lower. Just not cool

It appears to go through cycles. You must have triggered the bonus on what would usually take over 500 spins at least; followed by another feature within 100 spins.

Had you caught the slot at the start of the cycle then you would have waited those hundreds of spins for the feature to trigger.

I appreciate that my theory may be tin foil hat territory and that I may see patterns that do not exist but it happens too frequently for my liking on this slot.

 

[lockinlove]

had another bonus. Paid 14x. Just completely unacceptable that for once this game is spitting out bonuses...but of course pay nothing aside from the one. Really not impressed lol. Like come on guys!!

How can you make base game that pays 1x always and bonuses that mostly dont pay? Game of thrones is sickly high variance but at least the base game pays