I have to laugh at your conclusion that 'modern slots are a waste of money, and a waste of fucking time as well!'. A slightly different conclusion was reached on the last videos that you won on lol....
But I've been consistently critical of Bonanza, even on the session where it chucked 818x stake at me I explicitly stated in the video that 'my opinion of this slot has not changed'.
As a dedicated HV player it's clear what you look for in a slot is not to be found in the slots you have chosen lately. Donuts is about 1/400 for the bonus so you did OK for frequency. Bonanza you had a very decent base game on and remember you got a near-800x bonus last time out.
Donuts did 1/630 for that session, you're actually calling that as 'OK' bonus round frequency? (And that's from the nonsensical starting point of 1/400, so 1/630 is only even vaguely 'OK' if we normalise 1/400 as a starting point.)
Bonanza was 6% behind RTP and did one bonus round in 1695 spins, and I'm supposed to be thankful for a 'very decent base game'? (Which still fell far short of RTP.)
Also, I thought we'd established that Bonanza isn't actually HV? Since so much of the RTP is grindy base game return?
I just don't think you're the type of player or person for the HV games, more of a medium-V character.
And yet I've played and enjoyed many slots that were considered higher variance in years gone by.
I made over 12k from Bonanza last month (admittedly 1.5k down since on it) and whereas the bad runs can and do go on to the extent they can crush you, similarly when on the 'up curve' you can win on several consecutive sessions and the features are dropping every 100-200 spins for a sustained period.
Well, yes, random numbers will do that sometimes. But ultimately, you're still setting fire to 4% of your money with every press of the 'SPIN' button.
Bonanza is a slot where if you're depositing 200 quid you should work the maths - set up for say 100 spins at 2 quid or 50 at 4 quid and with the base game turnover at 70%+ you should see 400/200 spins at least respectively for those stakes. The feature average is 460/1 so you'd have a better than 50% chance of triggering it and then hit a good one and it's happy Chopley.
You're seriously suggesting I play at £2 or £4 per spin on a £200 deposit? I want an evening's entertainment for £200, with a decent chance of having something left in my bankroll at the end of the evening, or turning a profit. A 50% chance of getting a feature for £200? Wow, where do I sign?
That kind of kamikaze approach could see the whole thing busted out in about 10 minutes.
My PS4 Pro with God Of War cost £350, and I've had about 30 hours of quality entertainment out of that one game already. (And I'm not even halfway through it.)
The video was exactly what I expected when a careful low-risk player like yourself takes on those type of games.
I like a bit of a flutter as much as anyone, but if we're at the stage where £200 down on two slots at 20p spins in three hours, with just five bonus rounds to show for it (which would have had a dreadful average pay if not for the 220x round on Donuts) is considered 'OK', then something has gone wrong with online slots IMO.
Add in the fact that decent bonuses are almost impossible to find these days (even just EV neutral bonuses), and we're left with the stark reality of random games with a generous house edge, slowly mugging us of 4% of our funds every time we dare to interact with them.
I think I'll go back to my PS4 Pro
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Think about stuff like the five Wild Desires on Immortal Romance, super, super rare hit, yet we've seen numerous screenshots of it over the years. But we've never seen a full screen of BARS on Starburst.....
