Hey Been There, first the big letters hurt my eyes
, but totally agree that again that as we have said we need to just phase them out boycott them or whatever, they're really not fun anymore anyways.
From what I have seen, could be wrong, Microgamming marches to the beat of a different drummer. They don't post or answer threads that I have noticed. So I think they being so big, pretty much don't care as they will be on top for a very long time to come even if it means squeezing every last cent out of players that are not in the US to make up the difference and still keep their profit margins they are accustomed to.
I would have had more respect for them if they had just dumped us in the first place than slowly acting as if we were vermin that is taking awhile to exterminate.
The unfortunate part is the real VERMIN are in our nations capitol and they are the ones that have caused all this in the first place. Just like pushing the CARBON TAX down our throats, it's a sham, carbon is what every living thing on earth thrives on! So not only are they trying to kill the gaming industry and our freedoms, but they are also going to kill the entire planet by depriving it of an essential element to all life "CARBON"!!!! So we can't totally blame the online casino's but we can be dissapointed in them for dragging out our execution so painfully slow.
But hey, don't let it bother you, our lives can go on just fine without them anyways. Well until the retarded politicians and the Bankers that control them/everything/everyone, have their total way with us and the rest of the world.
Well, this could backfire on MGS. I have noticed that almost all US players are deciding to leave the sinking ship that is MGS NOW, rather than go down with it when MGS eventually decide on an unannounced total withdrawal from the US market, leaving US players to wake up one day & find their accounts locked, with money still in them, and having to get it back the slow and painful way. Remember Intercasino, when first US players got the email for the monthly reload. Those who deposited straight away got it, those who waited till Monday didn't - but were told they could still play without the monthly bonus, and were still eligible for the other promos...... until Tuesday as it turned out, as on Wednesday, their accounts were locked. Those who got the bonus at the weekend couldn't finish WR, those who deposited on Monday, even though they could only play the other promos, found they could neither play nor withdraw. ALL US players who didn't simply take the monthly & run on day one were screwed. Instead of being able to submit a withdrawal, and exit in an orderly manner WITH NOTICE, they were told they had to claim their balance by contacting support, whereupon a process that took about a DAY when done through the software, would take "up to a MONTH" being done through support.
Now MGS are following a similar course. First, it was JUST the progressives you Americans couldn't play. This at least was logical, paying a $1Million+ win covertly to a US player would have presented considerable problems.
Next, it was no more NEW players, clearly a watered down full withdrawal under pressure, probably from operators. Grand Prive first off announced a COMPLETE closure of their 5 US facing casinos, and used this as an excuse to screw affiliates. Then, it was watered down to no more NEW players, and "grandfather rights" for existing players in states lacking SPECIFIC anti-online gambling legislation.
Next, "grandfather rights" were attacked, along with a block on progressives, they blocked the multi player game "Wheel of Wealth". Next, ALL new games were blocked from December 2009 onward.
Next....? Well, can ONLY be a full withdrawal, unless they start removing some of the OLD games a bit at a time for US players, until eventually all they have is a blank lobby.
This brings me back to MY All Slots "weirdness". Friday - games were there, even played one of them. Sunday - GONE
I have presented a screenshot pair of one category most hit by this, so obvious that no searching is required.
SIX existing games REMOVED sometime between Friday and Sunday last.
This has not happened at ANY OTHER MGS casino on my hard drive, and I have checked more thoroughly now.
Cash n Curry - REMOVED
Game On - REMOVED
The Gee Gees - REMOVED
Treasure Ireland - REMOVED
Who Wants to be a Stallionaire - REMOVED
You Lucky Barstard - REMOVED
Quite a while ago, MGS ditched the idea of operator specific clones, and this was evident when former operator exclusives like Agent Jane Blonde appeared in ALL MGS casinos, despite being pretty OLD games. This happened around the time MGS changed to having a common cache for the game files. The December update actually ADDED quite a few former "Flash only" AWP games, and originally All Slots had the SAME extended set as at VIP lounge. THEN, this fuss erupted over US players having the new games, and then having them disappear a day or so later. Now I have seen this, just with a different set of games, and only on ONE SINGLE casino (so far).
There has been NO ANNOUNCEMENT WHATSOEVER as to WTF is going on, and we had to drag even a lame excuse from MGS about the original "technical issues" US players were having with "disappeared games".
So wtf IS actually going on here. I am NOT an American, but it is now b*******G up MY Viper Clients.
Put this another way.
Say I played 200 spins on Wealth Spa, and had 3 coins, but the coin didn't even appear for 100 spins - so I give up, vowing to try my luck later for coins 4 & 5. I return, and the game is "disappeared" without announcement or explanation, yet I TRUSTED the MGS concept that "games NEVER get retired", and feel cheated because I have "lost" the potential value of being only 2 coins short of free spins, rather than five, and would in fact have DEFINITE value stored in the 3 coins I had.
Scrooge is another game like this, as is Tomb Raider - Secret of the Sword. (even Great Galaxy Grab in some respects) If either are "disappeared", then "stored value" can be "stolen" from players.
Without any explanation from MGS about this, how do I know, as a player, that one of these games will be there next time I deposit in the hope to complete my trail towards the top bonus.
Now with Scrooge, there may well be US players who have played a bit, and accumulated some extra free spins and days, and NOW find this "stolen" from them because Scrooge is no longer available from now on to US players.
Casinos DO announce new ADDITIONS, but they FAIL to announce games that they will be REMOVING. Incidentally, NONE of the extra AWP games that appeared this month were mentioned in the "December new games" newsletters. WHY not, they were new games just as much as the others, at least as far as the DOWNLOAD casino was concerned.