On the topic of RTG, I havent been going too well either lately and the bonus rounds Ive found to be quite lousy, but it could be just bad luck I guess.
One thing I did notice was a difference in the reel positions on Diamond Dozen (which I play quite regularly). As Im sure others do, I get to know how many scatters/bonus symbols are on each reel as they roll, and it seems that there is only ONE blue diamond on the 3rd reel where there used to be TWO. Now maybe Im losing it, and maybe it doesnt actually make a difference either way, but I did think it was odd.
Anyway, bottom line is that I cant hit a win anywhere with RTG at present.
This could only be confirmed by analysing the slot at rest after a large number of spins, as this cuts out misimpressions in the animations, where the old "reels are resetting" has now been explained by several members as probably due to very long reelstrips requiring the animation to "reset" to show the landing few symbols rather than properly rotate the reel. Sme RTG slots have 100+ symbols where a bonus round can be "easliy triggered" seemingly by just getting one symbol on the last reel after getting all to likely symbols on the first 4.
If the reduction to one blue diamond has really happened, then it represents a reduction in the probability of getting free spins, and most likely is a reduction of the RTP of the game.
The missing games, well, thanks to New Orleans, RTG have quietly pulled the rather vulnerable games "Frozen Assets" and that other one, "Break the bank", not sure of the name, hardly played it because it is so boring. It seems a couple of others have gone too, as there are only 4 left in the class "bonus 3 reel slots", when there were up to 8 before.
It is wise of RTG to yank Frozen Assets, but they should have come clean and made an announcement that this was being done, now they have made it look like they had something to hide (well, they did, an almighty design cock-up that has been around for YEARS!).
No doubt, seeing New Orleans post in great detail the full "method" for Frozen Assets, and how it could be partly extended to a range of other slots, RTG operators kept a close eye on things, and thought it best to remove the games rather than face a barrage of non-payment complaints from all the masses who read the method and tried it out. This was probably shared on many other forums, where in the past it has been a closely guarded "VIP section" method, used at a level that RTG casinos would tolerate.
The alternative would have been to exclude these games from play in the terms and conditions, something I did see at the Virtual casinos.