How ridiculously bureaucratic. The net effect to player and casino balances of withdrawing $150 then depositing $150 is zero.
There ought to be a giant flashing box that pops up and says withdraw now, you can only possibly lose money from now on once the casino makes the adjustment to the player's balance when the wagering requirements are met. Won't happen will it?
This is the point I am labouring to get across. Yes, we read the terms, and know (or should know), that there will be max cashouts on certain kinds of free chip offers. The problem is the player unfriendly way the software handles this now, and this is a RECENT CHANGE. Before, players could play as long as they wanted. When they thought they had met WR, they could check the counter in the cashier, or ask CS, and if they were over the max cashout and had completed WR, they would GET the maximum allowed.
The problem is the removal of the excess WHILST STILL PLAYING, giving the player NO PROPER CHANCE to request a withdrawal for the maximum. No matter HOW attentive the player is, there are going to be a spin or two that sneak in AFTER the adjustment, and players are tricked by a software deficiency into making wagers that they could not possibly win.
If RTG added this in-play adjustment into the software, WHY didn't they couple this with a "stop current play" feature, and have the software issue an alert that the player had met WR, and could withdraw. If the player got this, knew it was a max cashout free chip, and STILL decided to continue playing, then it would NOT be for lack of effort on the part of the casino operator that the player made the wrong decision.
This new feature can ONLY be intended to trick players into missing the best time to cash out their free chip, and then perhaps lose even more trying to get back to the max cashout limit.
RTG casinos never used to have this in-play confiscation, so why have it NOW. Other casinos use max cashouts on free chips, yet they do all the adjustments after a player has finished playing, and submitted a valid withdrawal.
Casinos are an odd bunch. On one hand, they bitch & moan about players who deposit, play it only once or twice through, and withdraw, because of all the unnecessary processing fees involved. On the other hand, they want this player to withdraw his $150, and then redeposit it again, otherwise he wont be paid any winnings above the original $150. In terms of probabilities, it makes no difference to the outcome, the money belongs to the player once WR are met, it's just bureaucratic procedure that actually costs the casino additional processing fees.
Max cashout issues cause a great many of the problems with RTG casinos, so they should get rid of the max cashout idea altogether, and amend other aspects of their promotions to balance the books, such as fewer coupons being available, tighter WR, or lower percentages.