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I thought it was only Rival that did this, but apparently not.
It's a real personal gripe of mine, and IMO there's no excuse for a casino software provider and/or casino to deliberately break their autoplay modes to encourage/entice players to deposit and play for real money.
Rival are arguably the worst, although at least they're honest, with a simple 'autoplay is disabled in free play mode, you need to spend real money to use this feature' message.
However, it appears Play 'N Go do it as well - albeit a bit more insidiously.
I deposited at Unibet last night for a bit of WMS slotting fun, only to find that the WMS slots were on their usual early evening slowdown to the point of being completely unplayable (Ruby Slippers even crapped out towards the end of a decent bonus round, which I've never seen before, and was quite worrying, although it did finish the incomplete game when I launched the slot again).
Since I'd already deposited I figured I'd try something else, (should have just withdrawn straight back out really), I'd played a few spins through Play 'N Go's 'Leprechaun Goes Egypt' a few days earlier and thought it was OK, so set about a proper session on it.
Long story short it helped itself to a £130 balance on 40p spins without ever paying more than 30x stake - oh well I thought, that's the way it goes. And I resolved to set about it in free play mode the next day to get a better feel for it, to decide if I wanted to play it again (variance feels medium/low but there is potential there with the big multipliers in free spins, plus I hadn't managed to get to the end of the pyramid bonus round, the help file only saying that it awards a 'big coin prize' - so those factors could skew it a bit).
So here I am playing it today in free money mode, and EVERY TEN SPINS it's flashing this up at me.
No I don't want to play for real money, because I did that last night and lost, what I want to do now is play in free money mode WITHOUT BEING INTERRUPTED ALL THE TIME, but apparently I'm not allowed to do that.
Oh well, there are lots of other software providers to choose from.
Don't software providers understand how annoying this is? If anything it just makes it look they've got something to hide, why on earth would you want to stop a player experiencing your game in free play mode?
It's especially annoying because as players we're basically left to work out variance for ourselves, and if a slot is a 'hidden high variance slot' whereby it's not apparent from looking at the paytable, that could get extremely expensive to discover for real money - so free play mode is all we're left with.
Very mean-minded IMO, and a total turn-off for me as a player.
It's a real personal gripe of mine, and IMO there's no excuse for a casino software provider and/or casino to deliberately break their autoplay modes to encourage/entice players to deposit and play for real money.
Rival are arguably the worst, although at least they're honest, with a simple 'autoplay is disabled in free play mode, you need to spend real money to use this feature' message.
However, it appears Play 'N Go do it as well - albeit a bit more insidiously.
I deposited at Unibet last night for a bit of WMS slotting fun, only to find that the WMS slots were on their usual early evening slowdown to the point of being completely unplayable (Ruby Slippers even crapped out towards the end of a decent bonus round, which I've never seen before, and was quite worrying, although it did finish the incomplete game when I launched the slot again).
Since I'd already deposited I figured I'd try something else, (should have just withdrawn straight back out really), I'd played a few spins through Play 'N Go's 'Leprechaun Goes Egypt' a few days earlier and thought it was OK, so set about a proper session on it.
Long story short it helped itself to a £130 balance on 40p spins without ever paying more than 30x stake - oh well I thought, that's the way it goes. And I resolved to set about it in free play mode the next day to get a better feel for it, to decide if I wanted to play it again (variance feels medium/low but there is potential there with the big multipliers in free spins, plus I hadn't managed to get to the end of the pyramid bonus round, the help file only saying that it awards a 'big coin prize' - so those factors could skew it a bit).
So here I am playing it today in free money mode, and EVERY TEN SPINS it's flashing this up at me.
No I don't want to play for real money, because I did that last night and lost, what I want to do now is play in free money mode WITHOUT BEING INTERRUPTED ALL THE TIME, but apparently I'm not allowed to do that.
Oh well, there are lots of other software providers to choose from.
Don't software providers understand how annoying this is? If anything it just makes it look they've got something to hide, why on earth would you want to stop a player experiencing your game in free play mode?
It's especially annoying because as players we're basically left to work out variance for ourselves, and if a slot is a 'hidden high variance slot' whereby it's not apparent from looking at the paytable, that could get extremely expensive to discover for real money - so free play mode is all we're left with.
Very mean-minded IMO, and a total turn-off for me as a player.