GoneGambling have nothing to do with whether Slotland supplied play logs or not, or were rude or not. Slotland (and other casinos for that matter) sponsor the games and prizes on GoneGambling. This is done through buying advertising space, and/or agreeing to sponsor prizes won from GoneGambling games. This takes the form of a GoneGambling game giving a player a prize, say $10 in bonus chips, and the casino giving the GoneGambling player this prize into their casino account.
Post UIGEA, the loss of casinos to US players had a drastic impact on this kind of forum, where members can win bonuses with casinos. Since GoneGambling had a high proportion of US members, it could not generate enough new sign-ups for the casinos who advertised there, and thus they pulled out, and income from GoneGambling dropped. Now, a new site has been set up by GoneGambling, (TAG City) which offers games in a different legal framework. Although free for a long time, this site has introduced a chargeable category which now offers members extra priviliges on the main Gonegambling site. This has created a situation where a number of embittered members have basically "thrown a tantrum" and "thown their toys out of the pram". These members have been accused of not wanting to pay their way to help keep GoneGambling going, yet expect to get the same level of prizes and priviliges as members who DO help out by buying a membership of the other site and using this to earn the extras offered by GoneGambling.
John is very abrupt and to the point, he won't beat around the bush when he has something to say, he will simply say it, and to your face. This often comes as a shock to those who expect to be humoured. One or two embittered members threatened that they would retaliate against this perceived slight by taking every opportunity to "punish" GoneGambling by defaming the company and it's representatives.
Many GoneGambling members will believe this action in dredging up this old post has more to do with taking a swing at GoneGambling, rather than venting at Slotland for not being able to supply gamelogs, and having "crap out of date software".
As for slotland itself, ALL the games ARE SLOTS! This INCLUDES VP and "Spacejack" games. There is a site-wide progressive jackpot, and this uses a central mechanism, such as the random jackpots seen with RTG slots. In order to accommodate this on some games, they have to be weighted, and have a special block on the jackpot combination where the central jackpot has NOT been awarded, and also an override to display it when it has.
In Spacejacks, if you win the central progressive you will be dealt 3 Blackjacks, otherwise you will not. The odds of being dealt the three blackjacks is not the same as with a random deck(s), although it is likely that other outcomes are not "fiddled" as there is no need to once the non-progressive winning hands are dealt.
Where a Royal Flush in the VP awards the progressive, this again will not have the natural 1 in approx 40,000 hands ocurrance, but will be triggered by an award of the progressive, and blocked if it is not awarded.
The cheating allegations a while back were down to a lack of clarity on the website as to how these games operated as slots, yet were presented as something different, and with different expectations.
They still could be clearer, as they do not go further than explaining the progressive is awarded by a central mechanism, but do not make it clear enough that this leasds to some games being "non random" in terms of the playing devices they present to the player.
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