You really don't, I've noticed in some casinos. More people are lucky on the weekend. While others are more lucky at the beginning of the week. I used to work for an Indian casino. Trust me we had ten times more jackpots go off during the weekend. Than during the week. The only reason why slots may seen tighter or looser during the weekend is. Varying on what machine your playing, how recently it paid out, and how fast you are to hit that button to determine your fate.
Otherwise honestly, it's really a matter of people walking when they are ahead. Versus getting greedy and thinking there going to walk our millionaires. I watched one guy have his machine up to well over $2,000. Then he squandered it all away hoping for that $25,000 win. I could have thought of a few things to do with that $2,000. Yeah $25,000 is nicer, but hmmm $2,000 isn't a bad chunk of change either.
Since I now live in a state where progressives are getting smaller. There really aren't many chances to win big. So really the only time I see myself getting greedy is when I go Vegas or Atlantic City.
But getting back on the topic about being able to maximize there income.
That's what I was talking about by being able to change there slot machine interface to slot themes that more patrons seem to enjoy. Cause it's a widely known statistic. The longer you play any game in a casino. The more of an edge the casino has on you. So if they notice more people are playing Gems Wild Tiles that day over lets say Wolf's Run. They can decrease the amount of Wolf's Run machines, and change the theme to Gems Wild Tiles. Without the need to go through each individual machine and change the themes that are going over too well.
It's basically allowing them to save the headache of having to reprogram each machine individually. For once allowing a direct download to the machine of the new machine interface versus having to go around and doing it all by hand.
Yet it's still my understanding unlike what people are thinking here. I really don't think they could just change the payout without having the state or the indian gaming commission standing right there. Verifying that there not setting the payout ratio too low. Just because everytime we did any game change, payout ratio change, or anything that changed the game just a bit. We had to have it done in front of the state and indian gaming commission first. You could just change something that critical without someone actually verifying and approving it first.
It`s a relatively simple way to balance the books, let`s take a look at the last year of how slots have completely changed, we have all felt the pinch and noticed how the payouts have dramatically reduced (mostly due to features being so hard to hit, and when we do hit them they are not worth a toss), this has been right across the board of each and every major software provider from Rival, RTG, MG and many more.
So, how do they balance the books?, simple, nearly every single slot that has been released since May`ish last year has had an outrageously high Jackpot and even more so -a chance to hit an outrageously high feature, these all come with expanding wilds, stacked wilds, various multipliers and ofc the obligatory 243, 1024, 3125 winning lines, to the average slot player these look absolutely mouth watering, but, and it`s a huge but, the variance is so high on these that when you play them you need an oxygen mask, for 94-96 out of 100 players playing these, they are going to go broke, the other few players will balance the books (around 94%-96%), so, how does this help the casinos through bad times?, again the answer is simple, if, as many of us do when playing low-mid variance range slots, notice a no win situation, we give up and withdraw, but, with these new *super slots* you are constantly chasing your starter balance, and by the time you have tried your luck at 2 or 3 of them, your balance has gone.
These new slots IMHO are a lot easier for casinos to regulate the monthly revenue needed to keep afloat, than the lower max payouts slots that will cover a w/r bonus with cash left at the end to withdraw, if, as was the norm, it looked like a no brainer session for the player today.
Just my $2, and this really does seem to me what has happened the past year.
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