Q&A Games worth Bonus Buy?

[LadyJelena]

Hey everybody

Since a lot of slot game providers offers Bonus Buy feature nowadays, I'm eager to hear which games you practice bonus buying and which ones you think are worth it?

 

[curremon]

Dork unit cheaper buy is really good one..

 

[bamberfishcake]

Dork unit cheaper buy is really good one..

Besides DOA2 and White Rabbit, I would love to try many of Hacksaw Games slots on Bonus Buy, because in my experience, although they are buggers for dead spins, their bonus rounds on my favourites pay more on average than any other developer I have experienced.

I think their latest slots are becoming a bit tighter though. They are a big name now, plus their latest games are coming in at 7,000x max wins now rather than their usual 10,000x bet.

 

[slotmaster]

none.

 

[shadow123]

Cant do bonus buys now as in the UK but my favourites were White Rabbit and Book of Gods, had good wins on both and the price
was sensible.Without bonus buys they are both unplayable.

 

[OliverCooper]

Cant do bonus buys now as in the UK but my favourites were White Rabbit and Book of Gods, had good wins on both and the price
was sensible.Without bonus buys they are both unplayable.

So now there is no way to play White Rabbit in UK??

 

[bamberfishcake]

So now there is no way to play White Rabbit in UK??

You can still play White Rabbit in the UK, but Bonus Buys are banned.

 

[shadow123]

Sorry should have worded that better ... without bonus buys they are both unplayable as the base games are dire

 

[the Shamus]

I buy the odd Bonus -- and have terrible wins to spectacular wins. In short -- if a game can pay out big amounts on $40 -- that means a game must loose slight more the make up for that over the long term. Recently, the volatity of games has increased dramatically over the past several years. The bonus are the same. I used to be able to xould on some little win on a bonus -- but, there are now several which pay less than a $1 on a $40. So, be aware what you getting into. It can be fun to split with a group of friends!

/\/\/\/\ the Shamus /\/\/\/\

 

[Deeplay]

White rabbit used to be decent until BTG were taken over but now on re-trigger you dont get the clock face to see how many retrigger spins you get - it just instantly tells you which sucks.

East-coast west coast NLC have had some decent hits on that but 400 odd buy in from what I recall but aint done that in a long while now

avoid bonanza buy in - did a test other month on lowest feature buy i think it was 20p cant remember buy in price but it was less 100x - not one of the 10 or so feature buyins went past my buy in price.

Have tried a few prags but most are dull buy in 100x usually - chistimas carols probs best of a bad bunch.

Dont do them much at all now when I do play which have not done other than 3dice last month or so and 3dice no feature buys. Buying the odd bonus if you have a balance can be fun but my view dont make a habit out of it - you will not come out on top most times. and with some slots blink and its gone ;-)

 

[bianchini82]

some nolimit like road rage, mental, elpaso, the rave. i usually dont buy bonus on tombstone rip, fire in the hole, hoarder.

I buy some doa2 but on low bets, and on pirate kingdom megaways

and avoid all the rest (like pragmatics)

 

[justdoit]

DOA2 all day long only $6
some Relax gaming are cheap also like 70x
overprice buying
Nolimit
BTG
Hacksaw

 

[miso]

Love Pragmatic slots most but find their 5000x max bonus buys brutal. Everytime I tried got 5 - 10 in a row that paid less than buy in.

Dog house megaways on the other hand, can be fantastic. Once had 400 odd balance and starting buying bonuses - ended up playing 366 (!) Bonus buys before getting fed up and withdrawing 500 Euro ?

 

[miso]

Best of the bunch ?

 

[OliverCooper]

You can still play White Rabbit in the UK, but Bonus Buys are banned.

Ah got it, but without Bonuses that`s so sad)

 

[JuusoPerttinen]

I haven't bought any "bonus buys" so far, but tempted to try

 

[09237653]

Sorry should have worded that better ... without bonus buys they are both unplayable as the base games are dire

Most bonus buy games are dire, because they design them around the bonus buys (like all recent BTG titles, and practically every prag game ever made)

 

[shadow123]

Another gift our caring UKGC gave us

 

[pinnit2014]

Slingo games are IMO more tilting than any 'bonus buy' - The Centurion one has seen a sizeable chunk off me, resulting in many a 40x wins.

 

[shadow123]

Thats tne worst Slingo there is,even when you get near the top, the features can pay a pittance and
the respin cost is expensive.
All the Slingos are evil,the UKGC should have banned them years ago if they doing their job

 

[Typical]

I have had some great success with Magician's Secrets left side (1200x,2300x, 4400x) over the course of about 50 buys. Hot Fiesta I hit nearly max win at 4800x with a 27 Spin 6 5x Multiplier wild Bonus that had me at the edge of my seat, over the course of about 20 buys. Pragmatic seems hot lately. Then again, quite a number of them were zero or very little payback bonuses. Still lots of profit for me, so might be worth a go.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Agree.

 

[johnnybagel]

I haven't bought any "bonus buys" so far, but tempted to try

I'm UK so can only try them in demo play using a VPN, and i've had really mixed results across loads of different games.

I reckon if they were allowed over here I might find a few games that offered bonus buys around the budget I was happy to spend for a session, then just jump in and see how lucky I got. Save myself some time rather than spinning away for hours.

 

[playforcash]

Gates of Olympus
Gems Bonanza
Money Train 2
Robin Hood's Heroes
Sugar Rush

 

[Avernite]

Gates of Olympus
Gems Bonanza
Money Train 2
Robin Hood's Heroes
Sugar Rush

Gates gave me almost 1000x yesterday. Needless to say it was an instant withdrawal ?

 

[LadyJelena]

Gates gave me almost 1000x yesterday. Needless to say it was an instant withdrawal ?

Hope you made some screen shots of that beaut. Feel free to participate in monthly screen shot gallery if so

 

[Avernite]

Hope you made some screen shots of that beaut. Feel free to participate in monthly screen shot gallery if so

Bit of a noob here, could you direct me to it? I did get a screenshot of it

 

[hogexd]

Extra Chilli easily. Made for bonus buys pretty much. Although whether it’s luck or not, I consistently am able to gamble up to 24 spins on older versions of the slot, but any updated Extra Chilli that’s running on Relax’s servers has not given me 24 spins even once

 

[hogexd]

Bit of a noob here, could you direct me to it? I did get a screenshot of it

Click ”Attach Files” and select that photo as the file. The button is right under the text box when you write a comment, atleast on mobile

 

[LadyJelena]

Click ”Attach Files” and select that photo as the file. The button is right under the text box when you write a comment, atleast on mobile

Exactly And if you want to embed it into your post, click Insert (it will appear on the left side of uploaded image) and choose Full Image

This is forum area with screen shots topics

Screenshots-O-Rama: - Casinomeister's Forum: Largest Online Casino Community Since 1998

 

[madmantrue]

I made 100e deposit , and used that buy feature some relax gaming slot , that was good because with my fourth bonus buy i got little bit over 400e , but i think that its lot more fun just sit and hit the press spin button like 1hour in a row without bonus

Sry for the bad english , i havent writed a while.

 

[LadyJelena]

I made 100e deposit , and used that buy feature some relax gaming slot , that was good because with my fourth bonus buy i got little bit over 400e , but i think that its lot more fun just sit and hit the press spin button like 1hour in a row without bonus

Sry for the bad english , i havent writed a while.

What game was it?

 

[shadow123]

Little bit baffled about Prags bonus buys, most seem to be 100x stake which doesnt tally with my experience of
achieviing bonuses in normal play.If i stuck £100 through big bass splash I would reckon at usually getting about 2 features
where as on games like madam destiny megaways, I would be lucky to get one,cant believe that the odds in normal play
in all Prag games are calculated to occur once in a £100 loss (plus the rtp bit).I think the bonus buys payout must adjusted,

 

[SCATT3R]

From personal, repeated experience, feature buys - in only a matter of minutes - can and most certainly will absolutely demolish any balance you might have buildt. A select few lucky winners, and not to mention streamers making feature buys appear like the greatest invention since peanut flavoured cheez doodles aside, the chances of coming out on top is very, very close to zero. They are the slot equivalent to in-play betting in sports; when introduced, a total game changer, and they have so many devious ways to trigger the compulsive gambler in you, and you can't fall back on RTP eventually kicking in to reduce your losses either because there is no way you can keep it going long enough for RTP to be even a factor, so I would just like to chime in here and stress the utmost importance of setting a loss limit before you start your spree. Go to account settings and set your loss limit before you start!

Here's my most recent feature buy session. It's fully disgusting. I wish I could say it happened only this once, but it's happened so many times now I've lost count, some even far uglier than this.

 

[Reelsoffun]

Feature buys, like all slots are not equal, so you cant really say they all evil. Depends on the games some are crazy hard to profit from some are easier, but bottom line your gonna lose eventually feature buys or no feature buy.

 

[me_and_ed]

I have had crap luck and bonus buys should be banned, last week I played a $700 bonus buy on a Push software game and hit ZERO, absolutely nothing, should be illegal.

 

[shadow123]

Can end up with zero on features achieved through normal play so no change there,Think its wise to steer clear of the super volatile
providers like Hacksaw and Nolimit unless you are on a mission to win a fortune, there has to be a lot of losing features to pay
for the real big payouts.The only way that feature buys could be illegal is if the published rtp is not correct,no reputable provider would
allow that to happen.
Still think feature buys are good idea and the UKGC did the british players no favours by banning them bearing in mind
that so many games were designed to have them and have crap normal gameplay, just ends up costing players more
grinding through micro wins to achieve one.

 

[me_and_ed]

Can end up with zero on features achieved through normal play so no change there,Think its wise to steer clear of the super volatile
providers like Hacksaw and Nolimit unless you are on a mission to win a fortune, there has to be a lot of losing features to pay
for the real big payouts.The only way that feature buys could be illegal is if the published rtp is not correct,no reputable provider would
allow that to happen.
Still think feature buys are good idea and the UKGC did the british players no favours by banning them bearing in mind
that so many games were designed to have them and have crap normal gameplay, just ends up costing players more
grinding through micro wins to achieve one.

I am always on a mission to win a fortune

 

[dunover]

I notice White Rabbit being mentioned quite a bit - this was one of the first slots to offer BB and the variance isn't 'lumpy' so you tend to get returns many times in the 60-120x bet range, thus you're able to perpetuate the session without too much danger. It's like comparing old 4.80 and £6 AWPs when stakes were 20p. Then you get the developers like NLC and PP who have sought from the outset to design 'streamer friendly' slots for the furtherance of their company publicity and growth ambitions. NLC have used insane BB bet multiples like 2000x in order to offer so-called 150k or 300k x wins (really 75 and 150x bet respectively) and PP have set the bar lower with mainly 100x BB costs but with capped 4 or 5000x bonus prizes (40-50x stake.) So NLC are equivalent to the AWPs with £1 spins and £100 jackpots, unplayable for most as @ChopleyIOM has made clear many a time.

Elk Studios and Relax Gaming have since copied the above NLC or PP formula and its worked for them too - nearly all the 'big win' videos you see on CG or streamer channels are from those 4 developers. Cheap, free publicity and mutually benefical therefore for both parties.

BB's are like a form of escort girl or slot prostitution. If you would normally go through the traditional preamble, hire a cab, book a meal try your chat and maybe get lucky for afterwards for your (say) £100 expenditure **prices may vary - visit to the Legion, chippie and tram home approx £19.99 up North** for the evening then you are like a normal player. If it doesn't yield the goodies, you go on another date and spend another £100. If after say doing this three times you've got nowhere, you try again with a different one.

If the above 'normal' process is not for you, you just say 'Ah, sod it!' and put a whole £500 down at once and call Svetlana for an overnight visit with access to the Happy Valley guaranteed.

Actually, that's a really terrible analogy reading it back, but you know what I mean - I hope!

It's down to the underlying personality, needs and patience of the individual player.

 

[pinnit2014]

Slingo games are more tilting than any bonus buying game (for me personally) - i'd hammer that Centurion game on it, buying another 'ball' to get the feature and another....had to end up chucking them as it was too much

Whereas when i used to BB (Islands or otherwise):

50 quid in for DOA2 (no one wants to sit through a DOA/2 base game) and just BB down to 0 (unless a 4000x etc) - one i'd zero'd that i didn't really have any desire to play on

Suppose if you have addiction issues you're going to spunk that 1k in either high ish stakes/Bonus Buys, regardless. So for that group of people, normal bonus's or BB'ing is equally as devastating.

My main concern when a game has a BB on it is the thinking: is this programmed not to give it out naturally? So some people i think feel as if they need to