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Everybody seems to forget the late 80's when a lot of UK AWPs were 78% -80% as default........ so 94% isnt the end of the world, if your playing tens of thousands of games a day, yes its gonna hurt a bit overall, but an average player isnt going to notice it short term on HV slots at all as they will swing 50%+ on a session anyway.
You can't compare compensated UK AWPs (which even now have a maximum prize of 100x stake, and back in the day were as low as 24/30x stake) and their RTPs, with online slots that are (a) Random and (b) Have top prizes often measured in many thousands of times stake.
You can get away with low RTPs on compensated machines with small jackpots, not least because a compensated machine will always actively 'aim for' its target percentage, often kicking back a portion of a player's losses back to them and giving them an obvious stop point.
The thing with online slots is the effect of a lower RTP is cumulative, an increase in the house edge from 4% to 6% is a huge difference in the long run, and whilst individual sessions will swing widely, as slots are so volatile, the overall long term effect is still that the house has increased its edge by 50%.
I've done over one million real money game rounds at 3Dice now, and guess what, I'm pretty much bang on the target RTP taken as a whole across the site, now imagine if you took what I'd lost at 3Dice over the last few years (which is quite a lot), and add another 50% on top......
You can't just wave away casinos helping themselves to an increased house edge of 50% (and often more than that!) as something players won't notice and/or shouldn't care about.