Most frustrating things on slots

[Dinahnana]

A lot of slots that I play have animation, but most are short enough not to bother me.....

But, there are several at 3Dice that drive me bonkers..... I think "StarStruck" is the absolute worse.

Yes, you can click on the screen and it will stop the animation and move on but, if you are playing on "auto" when you click on the screen it automatically stops the "auto-play".....

So, you have to start it over.

New players may be amused by the animation on many slots, but once that amusement is over..... it gets old ... fast!

I'd say it gets old after about 5 mins I wouldn't mind a big show animation for wins over 100x bet.

 

[Valhalla]

This is one that REALLY pisses me off:

When certain slots go out of their way to annoy you. I'm talking about Golden Shamrock and Secret Code in particular.
You get 3 scatters and have to pick one, revealing your free spins and multiplier. 99 times out of 100 you'll "pick" (like you really have a choice ffs) the worst of the lot.
Your pick will be 10 spins at 1x multiplier. And the others "would have been" 12 and 14, both at 2 or 3x multiplier.

Why do that?
It's not like it makes any difference other than to annoy me before my shitty bonus round begins. Why not let me think I got really lucky? Make the ones I didn't pick be really bad like 5 free spins at 1x multiplier

 

[mcgameboy]

This is one that REALLY pisses me off:

When certain slots go out of their way to annoy you. I'm talking about Golden Shamrock and Secret Code in particular.
You get 3 scatters and have to pick one, revealing your free spins and multiplier. 99 times out of 100 you'll "pick" (like you really have a choice ffs) the worst of the lot.
Your pick will be 10 spins at 1x multiplier. And the others "would have been" 12 and 14, both at 2 or 3x multiplier.

Why do that?
It's not like it makes any difference other than to annoy me before my shitty bonus round begins. Why not let me think I got really lucky? Make the ones I didn't pick be really bad like 5 free spins at 1x multiplier

Psychological warfare and general mindfuckery mate. Always leave the player wanting/seeking/chasing/yearning for more. Always leave the player
believing that "there is something better out there", when in fact the opposite may be the case.

I'm fairly sure all of us have been guilty of chasing after something (and failing to catch it) a little longer than we probably should have.

Sure, sometimes we will get away with it and land a biggun'. Quite often though, we don't even land a small' un.

Let's face it, these slot makers know what they're doing. And we know that they know. Yet here we are, still chasing the seemingly uncatchable,
still believing the scarcely believeable, still thinking we can "wear a slot down", still believing that "it will take a turn for the better any minute now
and then I'm getting my ticket to winners row baby", still thinking that discipline can trump a house edge if you have enough stubborn pig-headed
bloodymindedness....and money. Gamblers fallacy is always close at hand. Some of us are smart enough to keep it at bay.

And then you have people like me lol.

I blame rolastan myself His freakish, almost out of this worldly luck on DOA (where he makes the rare event seem routine) has some of us
believing "if he can do it, then so can I".

And some of us do....but in considerably smaller doses. IF we're lucky.

PS I'm not jealous of rolastan, honest

 

[Valhalla]

Psychological warfare and general mindfuckery mate. Always leave the player wanting/seeking/chasing/yearning for more. Always leave the player
believing that "there is something better out there", when in fact the opposite may be the case.

That's the thing though; the free spins are almost exclusively shite [on the games I mentioned] so I'd be left wanting more anyway. I just don't understand why NetEnt insist on making us feel like we've lost before the bonus game even starts. They could lure us into a false sense of security at least. I land 3 scatters and Secret Code says this to me:

"Ooooh! free spins at last.
You're not gonna win anyway.
Pick any one you want; they're all shite.
See? Haha
Let's spin some crap for you...

Dead spin.
Dead spin.
Oooh! Plus 2 to your multiplier, not that it matters
Dead spin.
20p yeeeeoooooo
Dead spin.
Tee hee hee
Dead spin.
40p and plus 3 to your multiplier but only 1 spin left
Dead spin. Yeeeeooooo.
Now get outta here; you bother me"

And I'm like; WTF just happened? Was that it? THAT is what I just played 250 spins for?

 

[mcgameboy]

That's the thing though; the free spins are almost exclusively shite [on the games I mentioned] so I'd be left wanting more anyway. I just don't understand why NetEnt insist on making us feel like we've lost before the bonus game even starts. They could lure us into a false sense of security at least. I land 3 scatters and Secret Code says this to me:



And I'm like; WTF just happened? Was that it? THAT is what I just played 250 spins for?

Yes there are times where a NetEnt bonus round has left me feeling like the word bonus was misspelt....

boGus
bonE us

 

[Nate]

I wholly agree with most of you here. CFTBL is probably one of the most annoying Slots with .. Congrats you won 0 coins and the useless feature animation. On most Slots these days its getting more and more difficult to hit anything substantial so they roll in the Cheap 'Big Win' hits. Cheap Psychology if you ask me. 15 x Bet is not a fucking big win - Get a life!

For me it has to be:

1) Loser Island from NetEnt - Pointless animation on the multipliers. It's like they want to torture their players with every dead spin. What can make me go insane is when NetEnt is on Rape mode - Try playing 5 Euros a spin and get endless blank spins and useless animation. After losing 500 Euros and getting pointless animation, blank spins and no feature you ask yourself WTF did I just do?

2) Muse from NetEnt - Same shit - Irritating animation. No way to stop it - you just must adhere to their torture.

3) Secret of the Stones - Like the others, Why on earth do I need to be subjected to a glistening scatter every time they fall? It delays the game, frustrates me and just makes me stay away from the game.

The whole purpose of having OPTIONS is to be able to disable their crap ideas. When it gets in the way of you enjoying your game then they need to rethink their approach. But then again, NetEnt listens to NOBODY - They will add useless animation to every new Slot they release only because their pay tables suck so bad. Something has got to delay your session to an extent that you think you had Good Game Time

Nate

 

[marcsudbury]

What game is jatb? Can't figure that one out?

[QUOTE


jonmincher:683227]Man I could totally fill up this thread with piles of stuff that drives me mad so I'll just put a few for now and maybe add to it after I've lost my deposit (again) later and in a more pissed off and sarcastic mind set which seems ideal for this thread

Agree with the T2 comments - both, oh look its that red shite again and no sign of a feckin scatter - here come my 0.10p's and 0.15p's great, oh a feature, oh bollocks cold mode again, get on with it you tw%t.

IR - reel one Sarah/Wild - reel two Sarah Wild (oooooo) reel 3 fucking scatter with Amber (so many times)

Playboy, (yes I can turn volume off but like to play most games with it on) has to have the most irritating soundtrack ever.

DOA - Screenies galore (look at my massive win) - yes my turn, here Jon have a wild on the last reel on the first spin and that's ya lot !

JATB - Finally 500 spins and I get 3 treasure boxes (which pay me fuck all) oh look not a key in sight - bollox

Go bananas - A monkey themed slot with no fucking monkeys - go figure

Wish Master - Click, lose, click, lose, click, lose (and why is it the biggest money guzzler at Netent seems to be the one which spins so fast with never any lag hmmmmm)

To be continued..... (unless I win later )[/QUOTE]

 

[KasinoKing]

What game is jatb? Can't figure that one out?

Jack And The Beanstalk - NetEnt

KK

 

[Casino2014man]

I hate go bananas..

A few times I lost my whole balance on that pile of **** without a monkey or getting one with no effect.

Never again

 

[KasinoKing]

Aliens: Taking like FOREVER to get to the Hive Feature, and then it's crap...

Sods law this!
For some reason, decided to have a bash at this tonight, and what do you know - after about 100-ish spins & upping my bet from 75c to €1.05 per spin I EASILY got to the hive with 2 clips of ammo to spare and already very close to bet x100.
Once in the hive I expected the same shite I've always had in the past - but THIS time it actually JUST got to the 3rd level (Bet x80)
Total win = bet x172.

With sods-law in mind.... ALL slots are TOTALLY CRAP! Do you hear me, slot gods?

 

[syntynyt]

BDBA - 2 scatters 2x bet, 3 or more scatters nothing. at least its copy Reel Steel give 100x for 5 scatters.
JATB - im paranoid or what? looking for clarification. i once played on mobile and 2 scatters in feature gave 2 more spins unlike PC version where 2 scatters give nothing. i played on mobile again since my laptop died and 2 scatters awarded nothing. was this game modified or never awarded like i said and my mind plays with me?
Ruby Slippers when Glinda keep throwing bubbles and that moment when the third or fourth one almost touch the reel only to fly elsewhere. that is ruining all the fun if any for the entire day.
old MG 9-liners for behaving like retarded while is rotating the reels.
and all the slots that don't have quick spin forcing me to start-stop for a faster, usually dead conclusion of a session. these that don't permit start-stop are even worse and never got more than a try.

 

[Jd666]

Druidess Gold where you get naff all on a mega spin.
Would be better off getting poison symbol on 12th free spin

 

[KasinoKing]

JATB - im paranoid or what? looking for clarification. i once played on mobile and 2 scatters in feature gave 2 more spins unlike PC version where 2 scatters give nothing. i played on mobile again since my laptop died and 2 scatters awarded nothing. was this game modified or never awarded like i said and my mind plays with me?

Well I've never played it on a mobile - but I would be totally gob-smacked if it were different to the PC version

Are you sure you're not getting it confused with Frankenstein?
On that one you DO get 5 extra spins for 2 scatters.
(Coincidentally I played Frank last night and got 2 scatters followed the very next spin by 3 scatters for 25 spins in total! Sadly it STILL just failed to make bet x100 - it only got to x98 )

KK

 

[Wild Reels]

there's already a wealth of annoyances posted that i agree with, my latest one though is the speed of the Microgaming "Quick Spin" option, generally i prefer to play in quick spin at least i did on the previous releases, but the recent slots seemed to have turned the quick spin feature into instant spin, games such as Leprechauns Luck and Rabbit in the Hat are prime examples, not sure where it started but Got is fairly "instant" also

would be nice to have a configurable game speed such as thunderkick games, a little faster than default but not instant spin please microgaming

 

[fun4all]

Sods law this!
For some reason, decided to have a bash at this tonight

Haha, for some random reason I gave it a bash yesterday as well. Still as crap as always.

 

[mcgameboy]

there's already a wealth of annoyances posted that i agree with, my latest one though is the speed of the Microgaming "Quick Spin" option, generally i prefer to play in quick spin at least i did on the previous releases, but the recent slots seemed to have turned the quick spin feature into instant spin, games such as Leprechauns Luck and Rabbit in the Hat are prime examples, not sure where it started but Got is fairly "instant" also

would be nice to have a configurable game speed such as thunderkick games, a little faster than default but not instant spin please microgaming

On the same theme, I don't like it when a game's quickspin speed is in fact no quicker than it's normal speed. TS2 on Quickfire
is one example that springs to mind. In sharp contrast to that, I absolutely love playing Avalon 2 and Jurassic Park on Quickfire
at normal speed. I have found them to be so much better on Quickfire than on MG download that I was pleasantly surprised.

One of my biggest gripes is why I ended up starting to play in quickspin mode in the first place....ridiculously long drawn out "heart stoppers".

If you get two scatters on the first two reels on games like BDBA and GWG2, it takes a ridiculous amount of time to finish the spin. I could play
about 10 spins of IR on quickspin in the time it takes those two games to spin the final 3 reels on a heart stopper. Seriously MG, cut the
f***ing crap with that pile of BS. It's bad enough even when you are running really good in a session, let alone when you're being starved of
features and watching your bankroll getting devoured at an alarming rate.

There is one other thing re: TS2 that I don't like. I like to play the base game at quickspin, simply because I find the game painfully slow
and boring when you haven't had a bonus round for over 300 spins. But the downside is, if I do play it at quickpsin speed, it means the bonus rounds play at quickspin speed too. That's a major drawback for someone who likes to see his bonus rounds play out at normal speed.

 

[Casino2014man]

I will add one here..

Playing novomatic slots like lord of the ocean where a feature is almost always good.

Getting a 10 as your symbol, and winning 5x after 10 spins..

 

[Jono777]

Apologies for using this thread for a quick moan but it does seem the most appropriate 'live' thread

Other MAJOR grips I have (especially recently)

You finally break a losing streak of maybe 4 weeks of entire gaming budget down the pan and hit a withdrawal of 1/2 a weeks budget then BANG the losing streak is back in full force, absolutely no idea what 2 scatters look like together, never mind 3!!!!

And then you get a nice 100% deposit match, every click is a lose and your just about to 'bust' and hit a lovely 230 x on Jurassic Park, play a few spins and decide to not push your luck and BOOM every other game is out to rape you without mercy

I'm far from a bad loser and if you were ever to meet me you'd think 'What a great guy ' but this last month has seen me reach boiling point on numerous occasions, arrghhhh

The positive in this post that despite the above I've not exceeded budget nor have I reversed anything when I have managed a small W/D

If only I could control my rage as well as I control my spending

 

[Jono777]

In fact this sums up my luck lately



Forgive the amateur, 1st attempt at a 'botch'

 

[Casino2014man]

In fact this sums up my luck lately

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Forgive the amateur, 1st attempt at a 'botch'

That really confused me for about 5 seconds ;p

 

[dave1888]

The 3rd scatter skiffing past on dead or alive,the wilds skiffing past on dead or alive and nearly landing(in the free spins),come off damn doa free spins and wilds land exactly where you need them to get the 5 extra spins!! Rolandas please tell me your secret dude!!

 

[vinylweatherman]

I'm afraid that if I were to start listing (that's an ominous sign already) ALL the things about slots that annoy me......

then this post would be longer than all of vinyl's posts at CM put together.

Fuck me, what a frightening thought

Oh well....at least the OP has given me something to do that will kill a few hours/days/weeks on this fine Easter Monday......
it might even be a welcome source of therapy

I'll be back with my "Rap Sheet" later.....

Don't be ridiculous

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

 

[psychogene]

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!

 

[Casino2014man]

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 completely agree with this..

More than once I have been up to around £100 on a £1 bet then accidentally pressed bet max and seen 45 quid blown instantly..

 

[Jono777]

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