I've been thinking about this for a little while. The basis of slots are that they are random. The slot effectively has no memory and the theory should hold that any possible outcome is available on any given spin. On a slot which has a collecting element about it, this is not true. When you spin on Kingmaker with all the multipliers at 1x for example clearly most of the potential big wins are not possible on the very first spin. Now how does a slot like this, and many others, meet the legal requirement for RTP?
This brings me onto how RTP is calculated. As we all know RTP is generally calculated be simulation over many millions, perhaps billions, of spins. But on collecting games how is this done? Surely to keep inline with how a slot should behave the simulation should simulate millions of "one time spins". I'd argue this is how it should always be done. After all you should not be relied upon to play unknown amount of spins in order to get to a feature/multiplier amount that satisfies the RTP criteria.
Let's say a slot manufacturer releases a slot which requires potentially many thousand spins to either get an "enhanced" feature or base game "sweet spot", with the shear number of games being released these days how is there any certainty that many will ever stick it out that long? How far will the manufacturers go with this and what is to stop a casino/manufacturer withdrawing the slot long before it has any chance of even remotely resembling the RTP it should be?
This brings me onto how RTP is calculated. As we all know RTP is generally calculated be simulation over many millions, perhaps billions, of spins. But on collecting games how is this done? Surely to keep inline with how a slot should behave the simulation should simulate millions of "one time spins". I'd argue this is how it should always be done. After all you should not be relied upon to play unknown amount of spins in order to get to a feature/multiplier amount that satisfies the RTP criteria.
Let's say a slot manufacturer releases a slot which requires potentially many thousand spins to either get an "enhanced" feature or base game "sweet spot", with the shear number of games being released these days how is there any certainty that many will ever stick it out that long? How far will the manufacturers go with this and what is to stop a casino/manufacturer withdrawing the slot long before it has any chance of even remotely resembling the RTP it should be?