Just FTR, Nicole also claimed that a group of Playtech casinos had "manipulated" their games as well. And that the slots ran strange. Almost an identical complaint as here.
https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/this-group-of-casinos-are-cheating-players.18456/
I don't know what strangeness she is referring to, but if it's jerky reels and such, as others have complained about....maybe the problem lies within her computer. Although her complaint with the Playtech group seemed to be that the reels spun too fast, or sped up....something like that.
I have lately been a member of the "RTG has really tight slots" group, yet I continue to play there so I don't have much of a right to complain.
For the record, I
love iNetBet and will never play at any other RTG, but I still can't help but think that RTG changed something -
unbeknownst to the casinos - sometime in the second half of last year.
If I were to guess, I would say that the way random jackpots are awarded was left alone. Before the change, the payout % was probably standard across all coin sizes, however, I think "the change" was that the payout % for 0.01, 0.02, 0.05 and 0.10 coin sizes was reduced, while the payout % for 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00 and 5.00 coin sizes was bumped up, so that the
overall payout percentage remains roughly the same each month because the ratio of large bettors to small bettors is just right so that the casinos wouldn't notice.
But us low-rollers did notice - and are still noticing it. KK noticed it too; he experienced it around the same time I did last year. It was drastic enough of a change that both of us felt it warranted a warning on our web sites. Shortly around the time the UIGEA was passed, things just haven't felt right. But when I was playing larger bets, I never had a problem getting the features and big wins. These days that is simply not possible on smaller bets (except for those extremely rare 1:1,000,000 spins, which I don't get but others here have).
If RTG
did make this change that I described above, I
do understand the logic behind it. Land-based casinos operate the same way - penny, nickel, dime, quarter, 50-cent slots normally have a lower payout % than $1, $5, $10, $25 and $100 machines.
But it would be nice if someone from RTG (not someone from an RTG casino because they are probably just as in the dark as the rest of us) came clean about this. We aren't
all idiots, whiners and/or sore losers.
Something that could help shed some light on the issue would be if some RTG casinos disclosed their payout percentages,
per coin size, first
with and then
without random jackpots factored in. And then compare these figures to the corresponding payout percentages from January 2006 - June 2006.
I'll even make it easy for them - here's a little fixed-width font template they can use:
MONTH: July, 2007
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COIN SIZE ..... PAYOUT W/RJ ...... PAYOUT W/O RJ
0.01 .......... 87.0000% ......... 80.00000%
0.02 .......... 88.0000% ......... 82.00000%
0.05 .......... 89.0000% ......... 84.00000%
0.10 .......... 90.0000% ......... 85.00000%
0.25 .......... 98.0000% ......... 97.00000%
0.50 .......... 99.0000% ......... 98.00000%
1.00 ......... 100.0000% ......... 99.00000%
2.00 ......... 101.0000% ........ 100.00000%
5.00 ......... 106.0000% ........ 105.00000%
OVERALL ....... 94.9000% .......... 93.7000%
(hypothetical example)