Most frustrating things on slots

[Zabier]

Any animation that takes a few seconds and won't let you skip it. IE: Terminator 2's random T-800 feature...unless there is a scatter present for the free spins, it's the cue to go and put the kettle on or do something else for a minute.

In fact, anything that slows the game down where you know you aren't actually going to get anything good. Game of Thrones - 2 scatters where you get 1, 2 or 3x - that type of thing. Similarly, feature animations where you know you haven't won. Like watching wilds expand on a no-win spin.

This is my one major infuriation. I especially hate the crappy little animations that only add 2-3 seconds on each spin but that adds up over time and especially if things are not going your way it is the last thing you want to see.

 

[dunover]

Don't be ridiculous

If you lined up all the characters in all of my CM posts, they would stretch from the Earth to ______________________.?

A 32red cash-out?

 

[mcgameboy]

I really hate the 'max bet' button that is on practically every slot.

I don't like to auto play and too many times I am 'in the clicking' zone and abusing my mouse that sometimes I slip up and hit the max bet button by accident. Of course I never win on that bet - like EVER. I wish they would just remove it or at least move it away from the spin button because uncoordinated people like me will always click it by accident every now and then. I never max bet EVER so its absolutely pointless for me.

Wish there was an option to turn it off for every slot that has it next to the spin button!

I could not agree more. I think I mentioned something about this in a previous "irritating things that slots do" thread, specifically the size of
the "Return To Game" bar after the Golden Idol bonus on Tomb Raider. It clearly overlaps the "max bet" button, but not the "Spin" button.
One "twitchy" double click and you're suddenly betting an amount way higher than what you intended to.

Totally agree - Think with the MG games they've sorted this already, on the newer games which open in a new window rather than a tab (Jurassic Park, GOT, PlayBoy etc) (referring to Download casino in the main) there is no Max button as I've fell foul of this numerous times and only ever once has it paid off (£460 on old LOTR on £6 bet!!) Netent button is defo too close, can't comment on other providers as I don't play them

Agree 100%. DOA's various buttons are all far too close together. In fact, I would go as far as to say that the spin, max bet, bet lines and bet level buttons on ANY slot should absolutely not be "touching" or joined together. There should be a very clear gap between all of them.

 

[Jono777]

Yep! - Also a nice simple piece of code, one off 'pop up' which could be incorporated into games quite easily such as....

'You've been playing at .27p for two hours, in fact 2 weeks, no make that 2 years, are you sure you wanna spin at 'X' '

 

[Valhalla]

A 32red cash-out?

 

[vinylweatherman]

A 32red cash-out?

That's the most common variety for me, everybody else must be doing something wrong.

I'll be cashing out £4000 next weekend

 

[Henchman]

Ya ya for big win 15 bet. Ya

Inspired by psychogenes post where he cited Gonzos Quest as one of the most frustrating slots around I thought I would start a thread and see what everyone thinks. I know I have many pet hates! I think a lot of slot companies read these forums and maybe they will take notice

There are so many different ways you can be wound up when you are spinning away, not all of them are necessary slot companies! The most common is simply going a long time without hitting the feature/bonus round. Once it gets over 200 spins I start to be annoyed, over 300 and I begin to get my tin foil hat out and start wondering if its rigged. Over 500 and I want to smash my laptop into a million pieces with a giant sledgehammer. However it gets worse.

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - Getting the needless animation when you hit the target with no spins or respins left. WHY netent - I know my round is over and I cant win anymore and you are just rubbing salt into the wound - ITS POINTLESS! Even worse when the hit opens one of the new wilds - you get the whole new wild song and dance - wasting your time in the most annoying of manners. Please Net Ent spare a thought for how the players feel when losing our deposits!

JURASSIC PARK - Specifically that spitting dinosaur feature. Holy crap that has to be the most frustrating slot feature ever designed. That little ****ard is just designed to infuriate! I wish I could book a holiday going on safari shooting those little buggers.

"BIG WIN" ANIMATIONS ON 15xBET Nothing more needs to be said. Feels like a kick in the happy sack when you are on your third deposit without a bonus feature, you hit something that pays 15x bet in the base game and the bloody thing sounds a bell and informs you that you have won a BIG WIN!!! NO I HAVENT YOU STUPID PIECE OF ****.


NOTABLE MENTION - "Error 2"/"This game is currently unavailable" all cheapo webbrowser game based rubbish like that. Even when you are having an enjoyable session where you are hitting bonus games this can pop up just to make it a nightmare. Multiplied x 100000 when you go to report it to cs and they ask if you have tried clearing your cookies.

Anyone else got any things they find highly frustrating with slots? Game design or otherwise.

Very very bad when coins fly all around giving 15 bet times. Not happy but mad

 

[muziq]

the most annoying thing which i cant bear is

the troy bat in IR or the wild n cheese wine goes on and just replaces the natural wild present

damnnn what a crap thing is that it wont change anything .. absolute sickening .. and now a days it happend a lot

 

[mcgameboy]

the most annoying thing which i cant bear is

the troy bat in IR or the wild n cheese wine goes on and just replaces the natural wild present

damnnn what a crap thing is that it wont change anything .. absolute sickening .. and now a days it happend a lot

Yes this one bit me about a week ago. For the first time ever on the Troy feature, I got 5 Sarahs straight in (no wilds).
And the bats homed straight in onto one of the Sarahs like it was a heat seeker missile. Meh....

I don't mind it so much on the wine and cheese. The thing that really annoys me about that feature is the unnecessary extra
"dead wilds" that get added on once it has become known that you

1. won't win at all or
2. won't improve on the win that was already there.

They really overdo it on Wine and cheese in comparison to Wild Vines and Wild Magic.

And then of course, there is that rare time when you get a wild wine on the left side to fill the gap that helps to
complete a 5OAK. Only to then see no extra wild wines appear.

 

[Jono777]

Oh man that Wild Vine feature...

Turns from a cool headed, friendly family man into a raving psycho.

Talk to my PC or what! - Just for once, go left!, prove me wrong!, you tw%t, stupid beyach, oh man whats the point, that was already wild ya knob etc etc etc.

Still stupid enough to keep picking it thinking 'one day.....' and tend to go for it on the rare days I get a good Troy feature (my fave) as I cannot stand the Amber and Michael, may as well replace the characters in the Chamber of Spins with 'Click me if you want enough for 5 more spins'

** I really need to stop visiting this thread after a losing session **

 

[fun4all]

Glinda when she teases you with a bubble bouncing off.

Yes I hate that on wizard of oz, it does not build excitement it merely leads to anger.

Net Ents new slot "Koi Princess" has this tease as well. When it stalls and makes the game window smaller as if you are going to get the pick a fish thing. Maybe once or twice in 10 it does this but then doesn't give you the feature and just makes an "awwww" sound instead.

**** OFF!!!

 

[Jono777]

As this thread has popped up again I have a new addition as I'd not played WMS prior to my previous posts.

Really hate this

'Insufficient funds to spin' pop up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are joking right WMS, thanks for that, I hadn't noticed my balance dwindling fast, I hadn't noticed that you'd given me fuck all AGAIN, I hadn't noticed that I'd not had a BR for the whole of yet another deposit and now you tell me I haven't enough to spin again

FUCK OFF!

 

[xalksx]

Mines is probably be mentioned .But when the reels keep spinning on immortal romance *sits back with finger on the print screen button" only for it to roll in a normal spin .In saying that it done this the other day and the following spin done the same but did bring immortal romance

 

[slotsgeek]

The most frustrating thing for me is slots that announce a very small win like you won a jackpot