Nifty29
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- Jun 20, 2001
So, why so many updates that appear to fix nothing, change nothing, and for existing games with no bugs in them; yet games that have VISIBLE, if minor, bugs do NOT get updated with a fix?
If these updates don't fix anything obvious, they must be fixing something "under the bonnet", and the most obvious candidate for this would be the game play, which would alter the RTP.
Support for this is the fact that noone will disclose to players the "version control" document that goes with the change, yet this is software on the players' machine. Other types of software update would have a version control document accessible by the end user. Casinos don't only not make the document available, they refuse to supply it when it is requested. It's use is in diagnostics where the changed software no longer works on the client machine, but works on the machines of the majority of users. It helps the user determine what best to look for when trying tom diagnose the problem.
Of course, if they ARE doing something unpalatable like lowering the RTP of a number of games, they would not want players to see this clearly laid out in a document. However, if the changes are "innocent", like changing something to do with video rendering, there should be no reason to keep this secret from players.
When RTG had their marketing sheets available that showed the RTP settings, I also found one of these version control documents for the latest lobby update at the time. They certainly produce this document, but don't want users to find out what changes have been made to software that they host on their machines. This is a real problem when an update stops the lobby from working, and the attitude from the casino is "something wrong with your machine, not our responsibilty to fix it". They may suggest the player take their machine to an IT specialist, but the lack of a version control document detailing the changes that broke the software is going to make the task much more expensive, even impossible.
Again....speculation....and that is NOT going to help the situation at all.
No online or offline provider (3Dice being an exception) that I'm aware of provides details of each and every update they release to the player. The exact same speculation, therefor, could be directed at MGS....and I see it hasn't stopped you playing....so you obviously don't place much value on it.
Unless you are part of the IT team at every casino, there's no way you can say what every update contains.
As I said earlier, and Simmo! alluded to, there's no smoking gun here. It's par for the course that RTPs can be altered,and just because PT doesn't take out a full page advert in every major newspaper to tell you when they do it, doesn't make them "liars" or "misleading", as nobody else does it and it is not a regulatory requirement.