I was playing BetFred (Playtech) and the slot Alien Hunter.
I hit a feature and of course sucked out on my very first pick but after I came out of the feature the reels just kept spinning so I had to close the casino.
Now when I logged back in it took me straight back to the suck out feature but increased my balance accordingly.
If I came out of the game and then back in each time it would increase my balance by the feature win!
Now fortunately for BetFred I am honest (read stupid) and have reported this software failure which could of basically made me quite wealthy if I chose to keep cashing out relatively small amounts it may well have gone unnoticed.
So this is not just a small bug and inconvenience for me not being able to play it is potentially a catastrophic software failure for the Casino.
I will let you know as to how they reply and if they are kind enough to thank me in the proper manner
Sure honesty should not expect to be rewarded but I have not been able to play and had to spend time with screenshots and explanations as well as informing them of a software failure that could cost/save them a fortune.
Funny I used to dream of broken slots that would just pay me out infinitely
and now I found One!
Pity this happened at a REPUTABLE Playtech casino deserving of your honesty.
MOST Playtechs treat us Brits like a bunch of CRIMINALS (some of those terms can make your eyes water, and they ONLY apply to Brits, no-one else in the whole world, not even the Danes!!!).
I can assure you that in the heyday there were NUMEROUS UK Land slots that would play like this (if you knew what you were doing). They were not infinite though (unless the engineer was stupid enough to refill it for you).
For a MAJOR online software to have such a bug does somewhat beggar belief, there being no machine hopper to limit the loss to a more modest sum - further, no software supplier would be prepared to admit to such a bug being in existence, so you really could have continued this for some while, and probably at quite a few Playtech casinos before Playtech themselves figured out something was up with the slot, and withdrew it.
IF this is taken seriously, this game will quickly vanish from all (or nearly all) Playtech casinos, and reappear at some later date. If you contact other casinos as to why, you will be fobbed off with a bland "technical issues" excuse.
Many of these bugs only materialise under limited combinations of circumstances, and can take a long while to be discovered by players, and can be IN USE for a long while before operators realise something is amiss.
Take RTG. Poster "neworleans" gave the forum a blow by blow account of the "Frozen Assets" method for RTG casinos. Although this relied on bonuses, RTG casinos would give these out aplenty, and it took only a low percentage to make the method permanently +EV. Shortly after this thread, Frozen Assets was retired by RTG from ALL RTG casinos as far as I could see. They also retired similar slots where the method was only marginal. This method was around for F&*^% AGES, yet RTG didn't spot it, although players who were ahead overall DID often receive bonus bans, meaning the losses were capped.
I suspect having the method in such detail was too much risk, and RTG casinos were forced to act, even though passing references to this method have been made a number of times before on this forum, with the games remaining in place.
If this bug ALWAYS happened with this Playtech slot, it would already be a known method, and you will be rather unpopular for revealing it. Other "advantage players" may have stumbled upon this, and used it, but WITHOUT being so damn greedy that casino operators started to investigate.
In my fruit machine playing days, some of these methods would last for ages UNTIL they became so well known that site operators were forced to act. Before the internet, a fruit machine method would last YEARS, and it would be very hard indeed to discover one unless you were involved in working it out. In the internet age, fruit machine methods are posted on Friday, and fixed on Monday - yet seem just as prevalent as before.
Why on earth would online casino software be immune to this, there are no doubt other bugs such as this awaiting discovery. The utter ARROGANCE of software suppliers makes these bugs even more lucrative when they turn up, as they will ONLY act once the problem is big enough, which is when too many players are informed of the bug, and/or those that know it get greedy.
The same phenomenon in playing strategy has lead to ever harsher WR and ever more excluded games, but unlike software bugs, this is much more openly discussed.
After all this, these is still the possibility that this is a display bug, and not one where you were really in front of a bottomless barrel of credits. These display bugs have been reported before, with one player having the lobby show him a progressive win, only for the casino to say this was a local display error, and he had NOT won the progressive after all. Microgaming had a display bug with Mega Moolah, with a player having the WHITE segment shown as the winning one, yet NOT getting the appropriate prize, which was the top progressive.