I am certain RTG have messed with their slots.
There are impossible losing streaks followed by the occasional miracle win quickly followed by another impossible losing streak.
Dogboy can yap on like an RTG Poodle until he is Blue in the face but stats are stats and facts are facts.
That said I don't see a massive difference in Returns (they were always bad) but the variance has definitely changed and as Silc posted a while back some popular games play completely differently to how they played a Year ago.
Achilles = Crap feature every time now and absolutely no retriggers unless you are on the Castle bonus then you have a good chance of hitting 3 Achilles for 10 spin retrigger, a shame you just went 800 spins without being able to hit them to trigger the Achilles feature.
I have probably played 25000 spins+ on this slot without a retrigger on the Achilles feature, hmmm.
Cleopatra's Gold= Frequent feature rounds between long droughts but hitting a decent win in Free spins is about 1/1000 now.
If it is playing well you can get some playtime but forget about a decent hit.
Ronin = Fine if it is hitting and still the best for potential feature hits but Once that first reel Ronin disappears forget it.
It will hit around 1 in 100 spins for a while and you have no chance.
Notice how all the RTG slots do this - disappearing scatters/wild symbols that suddenly only turn up about 10% of what you would expect.
Derby Dollar = front coin - gone!
Ronin = front Ronin - gone!
Achilles = front Achilles - gone!
etc etc.
Aladin's wishes = This game is now a complete joke. Almost impossible to hit 3 lamps and the chances of getting the free spins is far less than it was.
I dare say if ever win the free spins I will get a few retriggers but I reckon my return on this slot is about 60% over Thousands of spins.
I may just take the piss and only play it when I know I have started a losing streak and get my stats looking even more unlikely
How about this.
Remember how you used to get Two line wins of 5 of a kind occasionally?
Perhaps every Thousand spins or so.
Well not any more.
I bet the last time was well over a Hundred Thousand spins (100,000) ago.
Just another impossible stat courtesy of RTG.
I really would not mind if they at least had the decency to be honest about the changes but they can't really do that because it would be more evidence the slots are dynamically weighted.
It can not just be a case of different versions having different reel strips that are changed once in a Blue moon.
The reel stop positions have to be dynamically weighted to give the repeatable results I consistently get. End of.
I understand what gokkie meant to about RTG slots being fun but stupidly tight.
They are fun but stupidly tight.
Play for pennies, play for fun and RTG is less frustrating.