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- Jun 3, 2013
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Hey all,
Just a message to let you all know I will stop playing online slots.
What I have endured with online slotting in the last couple of months is just beyond ridiculous.
People will quickly answer and say it is just a bad streak.
No,this is different, this has nothing to do anymore with bad luck or a bad streak.
There are many threads were people say that they feel the slots have changed, or the way they "pay" and play.
We all laugh it away as it is all tinfoil hat related crap and it is all the players perception.
Now,I have played slots since I was legally able to do so and that is now nearly 25 years so I think I have the right to say that I would have a reasonable good judgement on things.
And my judgement and also my gut feeling tell me it is time to walk away from online slotting and stop wasting my hard earned money on it.
When the entertainment value stops and annoyance is the only reward it is time to jump ship.
There are many slots out there that are an insult to the online slot player.
I love playing slots and I always will but I for now I am gonna stick to my local b&m casino where I can sit with a few Euro once in a while and have some fun with the locals.
It is funny actually as online slots are said to have better payouts than any b&m slot will ever have but for me over all those years I have done 10 times better in b&m casino's.
I walked away many times with a good profit in my pocket whilst online I very seldom make a decent profit.
I can accept that most of the times you will lose your deposit as that is a Murphy's Law in gambling.
The odds are always in favor of the casino.
But when your play time is also reduced to shreds because the slot developers have tweaked their slots in a way to even squeez the last bit of entertainment out of them in order to fill their pockets even quicker.
100 Euro is nothing. Any slot, any casino, it doesn't matter.
Netent are rapidly changing their slots to the new HTML format and they have taken out the opportunity to make the reels stop instantly, removed the option to play with lesser paylines and i.m.h.o the game play has changed.
I can start and mention loads of examples but let's leave it for now.
I will say Tornado Farm Escape and see how often the feature triggers with the clouds on reel 1 and 5.
It was not hard to trigger this feature at all. I have played this slot a lot!
Since available on the HTML version it completely changed and would miss the cloud on reel 5 over and over and over again.
As a frequent player of the slot I noticed this and it is hard to not see that this feature hits less frequent.
Microgaming, the champions of bankroll destroying slots as they will bore you to death with endless sessions of non winning spins and features not triggering, 2 scatters 50 million times and when the third one finally hits it will reward you with 10x or less on the free spins. Needless to say your bankroll has already suffered major to even get the free spins.
The classics like TSII, IR, TFROL for example, 5 OAK pays have been minimised so hard it is hard to not see that.
I could play those slots for hours and remain on the same balance or have a good profit.
Now 100 Euro on €0.60 - €0.90 bets will be gone in 30 minutes or less as all you get is 3 OAKS that pay less than 1x bet and FS are so hard to trigger.
I can go on and on but I think I have made my point.
To slots developers I would say, think carefully what way you are going because you will start to lose players.
I have given them the benefit of the doubt thinking I was just having bad luck but after a while you start to see the pattern and figure out it is useless to play them.
This is just purely my own observation which have brought me to the conclusion and decision to give up the online slots.
This decision has not been made after a huge loss or whatever but has been an accumulation of frustrating sessions where there was no mentionable wins or decent play time.
I will remain active on the forum so Bryan please do not close my account!!!
I love this place and I will still participate in the forum as there are other things besides online slots to be discussed from time to time.
I am taking my early steps in affiliating and this forum is a great board with loads of knowledgeable people and there are always good threads about other things.
Besides that there are many nice people here so I defo gonna stay around.
Just when it comes to online slots, I am gonna stop for the time being.
Just not worth spending my money on.
The monthly bankroll will now be used for other stuff, might even save it for some time and do something nice with it.
Take care all and like I said, will still be around here!
To add, I want to thank the awesome casino's I have played at and the service I have gotten from them.
I do not blame them one bit as they are just providing us with the opportunity to play the slots.
The people who make them should be rethink their strategies as they stink!
I have had amazing times at Guts and Rizk, by far my 2 favourite online casino's and I was always treated well there.
For me 2 casino's that have set the benchmark for online casino's very high when it comes to customer care and customer focus!
Mark.
Just a message to let you all know I will stop playing online slots.
What I have endured with online slotting in the last couple of months is just beyond ridiculous.
People will quickly answer and say it is just a bad streak.
No,this is different, this has nothing to do anymore with bad luck or a bad streak.
There are many threads were people say that they feel the slots have changed, or the way they "pay" and play.
We all laugh it away as it is all tinfoil hat related crap and it is all the players perception.
Now,I have played slots since I was legally able to do so and that is now nearly 25 years so I think I have the right to say that I would have a reasonable good judgement on things.
And my judgement and also my gut feeling tell me it is time to walk away from online slotting and stop wasting my hard earned money on it.
When the entertainment value stops and annoyance is the only reward it is time to jump ship.
There are many slots out there that are an insult to the online slot player.
I love playing slots and I always will but I for now I am gonna stick to my local b&m casino where I can sit with a few Euro once in a while and have some fun with the locals.
It is funny actually as online slots are said to have better payouts than any b&m slot will ever have but for me over all those years I have done 10 times better in b&m casino's.
I walked away many times with a good profit in my pocket whilst online I very seldom make a decent profit.
I can accept that most of the times you will lose your deposit as that is a Murphy's Law in gambling.
The odds are always in favor of the casino.
But when your play time is also reduced to shreds because the slot developers have tweaked their slots in a way to even squeez the last bit of entertainment out of them in order to fill their pockets even quicker.
100 Euro is nothing. Any slot, any casino, it doesn't matter.
Netent are rapidly changing their slots to the new HTML format and they have taken out the opportunity to make the reels stop instantly, removed the option to play with lesser paylines and i.m.h.o the game play has changed.
I can start and mention loads of examples but let's leave it for now.
I will say Tornado Farm Escape and see how often the feature triggers with the clouds on reel 1 and 5.
It was not hard to trigger this feature at all. I have played this slot a lot!
Since available on the HTML version it completely changed and would miss the cloud on reel 5 over and over and over again.
As a frequent player of the slot I noticed this and it is hard to not see that this feature hits less frequent.
Microgaming, the champions of bankroll destroying slots as they will bore you to death with endless sessions of non winning spins and features not triggering, 2 scatters 50 million times and when the third one finally hits it will reward you with 10x or less on the free spins. Needless to say your bankroll has already suffered major to even get the free spins.
The classics like TSII, IR, TFROL for example, 5 OAK pays have been minimised so hard it is hard to not see that.
I could play those slots for hours and remain on the same balance or have a good profit.
Now 100 Euro on €0.60 - €0.90 bets will be gone in 30 minutes or less as all you get is 3 OAKS that pay less than 1x bet and FS are so hard to trigger.
I can go on and on but I think I have made my point.
To slots developers I would say, think carefully what way you are going because you will start to lose players.
I have given them the benefit of the doubt thinking I was just having bad luck but after a while you start to see the pattern and figure out it is useless to play them.
This is just purely my own observation which have brought me to the conclusion and decision to give up the online slots.
This decision has not been made after a huge loss or whatever but has been an accumulation of frustrating sessions where there was no mentionable wins or decent play time.
I will remain active on the forum so Bryan please do not close my account!!!
I love this place and I will still participate in the forum as there are other things besides online slots to be discussed from time to time.
I am taking my early steps in affiliating and this forum is a great board with loads of knowledgeable people and there are always good threads about other things.
Besides that there are many nice people here so I defo gonna stay around.
Just when it comes to online slots, I am gonna stop for the time being.
Just not worth spending my money on.
The monthly bankroll will now be used for other stuff, might even save it for some time and do something nice with it.
Take care all and like I said, will still be around here!
To add, I want to thank the awesome casino's I have played at and the service I have gotten from them.
I do not blame them one bit as they are just providing us with the opportunity to play the slots.
The people who make them should be rethink their strategies as they stink!
I have had amazing times at Guts and Rizk, by far my 2 favourite online casino's and I was always treated well there.
For me 2 casino's that have set the benchmark for online casino's very high when it comes to customer care and customer focus!
Mark.
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