Progressive jackpot lies

[dealer wins]

There is no way on the planet that the mini and minor jackpots on a wowpot linked slot got to these shown amounts!!

£32393.74 for the minor and £11355.98 for the mini.

These "jackpots" are triggered constantly within 1 min to an hour tops!!

Pure BS

 

[jasonuk]

Mega Moolah has some similarly eye-watering stats - so there's clearly something that happened a while ago.

My guess would be that there was a technical issue that disabled the jackpot, and when the contributions were added in the next person got a shot at £11k instead of £11.

It's somewhat misleading because a functional jackpot is never going to get close to those numbers - £20 and £200 would already be on the high side - but that will have happened at some point.

 

[dealer wins]

Happy days to the person who hit £33 million 4 days ago, if thats real lol

 

[jasonuk]

Mega Moolah and Wowpot have been some of the most publicised jackpots over the years - so there's plenty of evidence of winners and those winners being paid.

The bigger question with Games Global isn't the integrity of the jackpots, it's how with 40+ studios they struggle to come up with an original idea...

 

[ChopleyIOM]

IIRC back in ye olden days the triggers on the jackpots were far rarer, so the MINI and MINOR could get much bigger than they do today. That said the high score for the MINI there does look a bit suspicious.

 

[Webzcas]

£33,000,000 being the highest win!?!?!?! I have not heard of this win, a google search shows a variety of streamer videos with said streamers playing this slot.

Nothing in Google News either. Surely MGS who it was back then would have been screaming from the rooftops. Or maybe I am not digging carefully enough.

As for an £11k win for hitting a mini jackpot LOLOLOL - Possible I suppose, but extremely unlikely.

 

[dunover]

11k for the minor is about as likely as Scotland winning the world cup. I used to play Moolah occasionally back in the Viper days and the minor was always 9-£10 and would come out very regularly. Probably some kind of 24h total that it's paid, about 1100 winners.

I mean, think about it - the selling point of the whole system is regular jackpot games/wheels. Assuming a jackpot of some kind will be won each time a player triggers the random feature, then having it reach 11k seems counter intuitive, even weird. Unless the Wowpot game features smaller wins before you even get on the wheel or a guaranteed jackpot.

 

[paul7388]

Yeah can't believe the figures for the Jackpots either.

But then again as I've mentioned before the day after the original mega Moolah came out many years ago at Ladbrokes I hit the mini and it paid about £2400 when I expected a tenner or so.

Will never know if it was genuine or an error but didn't care as it went in bank no problem.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I never liked the way Mega Moolah did their jackpots, if you were a low roller you could play for hours and hours and never get a sniff of the wheel, and then when you finally did it'd be the MINI. (That said I did once land a MINOR, I nearly fell off my chair.)

It's basically just dead RTP, and in Mega Moolah's case, a lot of it.

I much prefer the way the Blueprint Jackpot King games do it, whereby you enter the progressive round relatively often, but aren't guaranteed any of the jackpots, however it can award anything from 5x-500x. If you get past the initial 'collect' phase you get a spin on the wheel where the progressives can be seen along with all the other prizes. Makes the progressive contribution fee a lot less like wasted RTP.

Crikey, even NetEnt worked it out back in the day with their Mega Fortune slot, which had a similar sort of principle.

 

[johnnymcc1966]

Mega Moolah and Wowpot have been some of the most publicised jackpots over the years - so there's plenty of evidence of winners and those winners being paid.

The bigger question with Games Global isn't the integrity of the jackpots, it's how with 40+ studios they struggle to come up with an original idea...

I personally think Pragmatic are the best provider out there for ideas,but their bigger than normal wins are harder for me to hit than BTG. And they are as rare as rocking horse excrement nowadays.

 

[jasonuk]

£33,000,000 being the highest win!?!?!?! I have not heard of this win, a google search shows a variety of streamer videos with said streamers playing this slot.

Nothing in Google News either. Surely MGS who it was back then would have been screaming from the rooftops. Or maybe I am not digging carefully enough.

It was won in December 2023, €38.4m -

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Games Global was mid-2022, so was nothing to do with Microgaming at that point. Even Microgaming isn't Microgaming anymore given they're now rebranding to Apricot.

As for an £11k win for hitting a mini jackpot LOLOLOL - Possible I suppose, but extremely unlikely.

As said, under normal operations it would be basically impossible - it will depend on the exact rules during maintenance or outage mode. Some providers will disable the slot entirely and others will disable the jackpots - whether refunding the contributions or adding them at a later date.

It's not a fair representation, but it's not lying either.

I personally think Pragmatic are the best provider out there for ideas,but their bigger than normal wins are harder for me to hit than BTG. And they are as rare as rocking horse excrement nowadays.

Not sure if this was intended to be ironic or not, but thanks for the laugh. Pragmatic would probably rate below Games Global

 

[johnnymcc1966]

It was won in December 2023, €38.4m -

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Games Global was mid-2022, so was nothing to do with Microgaming at that point. Even Microgaming isn't Microgaming anymore given they're now rebranding to Apricot.


As said, under normal operations it would be basically impossible - it will depend on the exact rules during maintenance or outage mode. Some providers will disable the slot entirely and others will disable the jackpots - whether refunding the contributions or adding them at a later date.

It's not a fair representation, but it's not lying either.


Not sure if this was intended to be ironic or not, but thanks for the laugh. Pragmatic would probably rate below Games Global

I like the mechanics and variety of Pragmatic but to play them at anything less than the intended 96% is like losing an arm and then having the other one cut off at the elbow. When they pay big they are great but when you are on low stakes like I often have to play at they are harder to win on than getting a major win on a gimped Netent slot.

 

[SlotsGuy]

Happy days to the person who hit £33 million 4 days ago, if thats real lol

33 that very special number we see almost everyday in the news, on social media and press statements by the Government. I couldn't think for a moment what that 33 really means....

 

[dunover]

Must've been a Swedish player or Norwegian, IIRC only they were allowed to win progressives back in the day lol

 

[hattrick]

Mega Moolah and Wowpot have been some of the most publicised jackpots over the years - so there's plenty of evidence of winners and those winners being paid.

The bigger question with Games Global isn't the integrity of the jackpots, it's how with 40+ studios they struggle to come up with an original idea...

I really like their games and the style, I think they do have some original ideas (or their own takes on original ideas), but I feel like the games act completely scripted. Like no matter where I play them, since about 2017 all their games follow some kind of script (I know how I sound, yeah). Before that, anything could happen, people were winning some crazy amounts (me too) after playing only for minutes or a couple of hours, but since then, all their old and new games are dead, like if I was always the only person at the casino playing them. Wonder if anyone has a similar experience with their games.

Also they don't fix bugs in their games even when they explicitely say they're working on a fix, but those are not money related bugs, only sound, etc.

 

[jasonuk]

I really like their games and the style, I think they do have some original ideas (or their own takes on original ideas), but I feel like the games act completely scripted. Like no matter where I play them, since about 2017 all their games follow some kind of script (I know how I sound, yeah).

I know what you mean - "golden age" Microgaming slots use genuine reels, proper mathematics models and very little in the way of shenanigans. In recent years the amount of fake teases and other trickery has risen to such a level that it's tough to tell what is genuine and what isn't.

Before that, anything could happen, people were winning some crazy amounts (me too) after playing only for minutes or a couple of hours, but since then, all their old and new games are dead, like if I was always the only person at the casino playing them. Wonder if anyone has a similar experience with their games.

There are a couple of biases here you haven't accounted for.

Firstly, Microgaming used to be one of less than a dozen headline providers, now Games Global (all 40+ studios) are a lost puppy in a sea of hundreds.

Secondly, the appetite for volatility (and balance obliterators) has increased significantly in the era of the monopoly money streamer - TS2 and IR were considered high variance in their day, but kept things sensible with a very small percentage of RTP (less than 0.1%) for the biggest hits - nowadays that figure can approach 20% on some games.

I struggle to think of the last Games Global title that generated much buzz - Thunderstruck 3 and Immortal Romance 2 both got some initial attention, but I suspect that is because they are sequels to legendary slots...

Thunderstruck 3 was an abomination, Immortal Romance 2 was at least faithful to the franchise although suffered from some of the Games Global traps (stored value "jackpots", excessive and pointless tease sequences).

Also they don't fix bugs in their games even when they explicitely say they're working on a fix, but those are not money related bugs, only sound, etc.

Good luck to the person playing a 15 minute Michael bonus on Immortal Romance...

 

[mcgameboy]

I know what you mean - "golden age" Microgaming slots use genuine reels, proper mathematics models and very little in the way of shenanigans. In recent years the amount of fake teases and other trickery has risen to such a level that it's tough to tell what is genuine and what isn't.



There are a couple of biases here you haven't accounted for.

Firstly, Microgaming used to be one of less than a dozen headline providers, now Games Global (all 40+ studios) are a lost puppy in a sea of hundreds.

Secondly, the appetite for volatility (and balance obliterators) has increased significantly in the era of the monopoly money streamer - TS2 and IR were considered high variance in their day, but kept things sensible with a very small percentage of RTP (less than 0.1%) for the biggest hits - nowadays that figure can approach 20% on some games.

I struggle to think of the last Games Global title that generated much buzz - Thunderstruck 3 and Immortal Romance 2 both got some initial attention, but I suspect that is because they are sequels to legendary slots...

Thunderstruck 3 was an abomination, Immortal Romance 2 was at least faithful to the franchise although suffered from some of the Games Global traps (stored value "jackpots", excessive and pointless tease sequences).


Good luck to the person playing a 15 minute Michael bonus on Immortal Romance...

Michael bonuses are just painful now, even the ones that pay well.
It's like watching someone trying to swim in a lake of treacle.