Hi there,
Ladbrokes is not affiliated to our Casino group, so I can only speak on behalf of Cinema casino.
Currently, Vegas Partner Lounge has only two brands on which the Multi-player software is running. These brands are Crazy Vegas Casino and Golden Riviera Casino.
Players are welcome to download the software for either of these casinos, and log in with their Cinema account details to enjoy the functionality of the Multi-player software (tournaments, Multi-player slots etc.).
Kind regards,
Curt
This is the kind of confusion players could do without. Many players already struggle to keep up with the different ways the SAME software functions between brands, as well as where they already have accounts (and are thus not eligible for offers, many of which they receive by email by spammers that are deliberately designed to look like "personal invites from the casino itself".
Far easier to have a Cinema account work ONLY in Cinema casino, and have a separate account for Crazy Vegas for use in the tournaments.
This is a backward step fopr Microgaming, and is right back to how these multiplayer tournaments started out, only being offered on "flagship" casinos of operators. Since then, it seems that pretty much every MGS casino offered the tournaments, yet now it seems they are being pulled from many.
I note also that the rep has skirted around the actual question, and has NOT said anything about WHY Microgaming/VPL are doing this, thus opening the gates to speculation, including the possibilty that the reasons for this move are actually a secret not to be disclosed to players, as are many of the odd happenings through the years with MGS.
If this is a move designed to benefit players, for example by reducing the load on MPV servers to make tournament play faster, why not just say so. If players do NOT see any improvement in their experience, or even a worsening, they may decide to give up MPV altogether.
Maybe they want to prevent in playing with many aliases in their tournaments
Oddly enough, this is EXACTLY how MPV was initially implemented, with each player only being allowed ONE alias that had to be used at EVERY MGS casino, whoever operated it. It was Microgaming themselves that scrapped this rule, so it was a DELIBERATE decision on their part to allow players to have a different alias in different MGS accounts, allowing for multiple entry into single tournaments. Despite heavy criticism from players, MGS simply would not budge on this, and players can STILL have many entries into the same tournament by playing in different MPV enabled casinos.
Maybe VPL are fed up with this, and have "taken the law into their own hands" because MGS won't budge, and have ensured players are limited to two aliases within VPL casinos. This could have something to do with the "casino specials" they run with $30K prize pools that are "vulnerable" to players using a different alias in every VPL casino.
Other operators may follow, but their implementations may differ, and unlike VPL, it may not be possible to log into one of the MPV supporting skins with the account details of another.