Well I decided to give GUTS a go today and jumped in with both feet, deposited the maximum £100 for the first of the SUBs and didn't do too well, a nice little early raise on 300 Shields (increased my balance from £200 to £220) was completely annihilated by DoA at 18p spins (and I had 300 Shields bomb out on me with the generic CASINO ERROR you get on Quickfire), which took the full £220 with IIRC a single win in the 100x stake category.
I didn't mind that so much, I know that DoA is an insane monster, and that's how it rolls. What I did mind was the multiple disconnects, slow spins, error screens, timeouts, and then having to reset my coin size and autoplay settings every time this happened when I had to reload the game.
I tried a different PC and also different browsers, but in reality I knew full well it was connection problems to GUTS that was the issue, I barrelled through 120K+ spins at 3Dice in June to win their Slotsmeister competition and my PC/internet connection never missed a beat for the duration of a month's solid slotting. (And I can do the same at Unibet, Redbet, 32Red etc - there are definitely problems at GUTS' end.)
With my first SUB gone and in all fairness the connection seeming to settle down a bit, I decided to have a renewed crack at DoA, so deposited another £200 to get the maximum £100 (50%) bonus on my second deposit.
DoA carried on pretty much as it had done before, rampaging through my balance with not a sniff of a decent win, but once again, I didn't mind that as I knew I was taking on a mental high variance slot. However, the disconnections came back, along with the slow spins, and the whole experience became frustrating again.
The final straw came when I got an error message during a free spins round and was bombed out, after quitting out of the game and loading it back in again it did pick up where I'd left off, but that's the cut-off point for me, there is nothing more insanely annoying than losing connection during a bonus round on a bad session, especially on a slot like DoA where you can wait hundreds of spins for a bonus round, so my patience was exhausted.
I therefore went to ACCOUNT > BONUSES, forfeited what I had left of my bonus, and withdrew my remaining cash balance out, which hopefully will be paid without issue (I'm still over £120 down on the day).
So I'm afraid to say that I can't see GUTS being for me, the website is great, the rep of course is fantastic and this is nothing personal against Ben (indeed it's primarily Ben's presence here at CM that persuaded me to give them a go), but for me the
absolute No#1 priority is a smooth and consistent playing experience, I can tolerate slow spins to an extent, but when it gets into the realms of timeouts and disconnects, my patience is limited, and GUTS tipped me well over the edge today.
Here are a couple of screenshots, I lost count of the number of times I saw messages like this today, along with a bright red 'ERROR OCCURRED' message in horrible basic red text and suchlike - totally ruined the experience for me.
I was more than prepared to put up with the insanity of DoA (and indeed was set on seeing it out through my entire second and third SUBs at GUTS, just to see the bastard out to a five wilds winline bonus round), but I'm not prepared to put up with the constant technical issues.
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