Stay away from Playtech?

[georgiad95]

After looking over all the rogue casinos listed at Casinomeister, I noticed A LOT of them were from Playtech. Should I stay away from all playtech sites just to be safe? Or are there some really good exceptions? Thanks all!

 

[maphesto]

After looking over all the rogue casinos listed at Casinomeister, I noticed A LOT of them were from Playtech. Should I stay away from all playtech sites just to be safe? Or are there some really good exceptions? Thanks all!

The accredited ones are good!

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[KasinoKing]

Absolutely not - though you are quite right to be very cautious.

Casinomeister lists 9 Accredited Playtechs which are perfectly safe to play at: Old URL
These casinos do not follow the mould of the rogues and are as safe as accredited casinos using any other software.
Pretty sad situation though, that only 9 out of 85+ Playtechs on the net have decent operators.

I'm sincerely hoping that Bryan's roguing of all those immoral places will FINALLY get Playtech to sit up, smell the coffee, and realise that they simply can NOT treat their players with such contempt. Great software - but a really shitty attitude.

KK

 

[miso]

Some of them are not rogue per se, just not recommended because of that progressive jackpot rules.
However, keep your Playtech play at Omni / Fly Casino, Paddy Power or Bet365 and will be in good hands.

If you like to play with a bonus Omni/Fly are highly recommended, but those other two are great multi-software sites.

Good luck!

 

[maphesto]

Some of them are not rogue per se, just not recommended because of that progressive jackpot rules.

They are Rogued, Bryan posted this some days ago:

https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/playtech-casinos-with-predatory-progessive-terms.57604/

 

[georgiad95]

Okay - I'll check out the accredited playtech sites now! Geez though, that company really needs to be careful with some of the operators. I think they make up at least 50% of the rogue list lol

THANK YOU ALL REPLIES!!!

 

[maphesto]

I'm sincerely hoping that Bryan's roguing of all those immoral places will FINALLY get Playtech to sit up, smell the coffee, and realise that they simply can NOT treat their players with such contempt. Great software - but a really shitty attitude.

True!

This issue with the progressive jackpot which noone knows who won, or at what casino it was won is as bad as those terms.

 

[Zabier]

As others have posted, plenty of decent Playtech sites out there. They are one of the biggest developers in the industry so for every 10 decent sites, there will always be 1 or 2 that don't cut the mustard so to speak. Judge it on a case by case basis though. I think these days you have to have your wits about you wherever you play.

 

[bingostarr]

I wonder why Gala and Coral are not in the accredited list? Have they ever tried?

 

[Casinomeister]

I wonder why Gala and Coral are not in the accredited list? Have they ever tried?

What list are you looking at? They are right here:


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https://www.casinomeister.com/accredited-casinos/

 

[Casinomeister]

What list are you looking at? They are right here:


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https://www.casinomeister.com/accredited-casinos/

My bad - I must not have updated the software section

 

[bingostarr]

I think I am going mad.

Coral and Gala right where they should be!

EDIT: Oh waiiiittt a minute.....you changed it hahaha.

 

[Finn]

As others have posted, plenty of decent Playtech sites out there. They are one of the biggest developers in the industry so for every 10 decent sites, there will always be 1 or 2 that don't cut the mustard so to speak.

In Playtech's case it is more like for every decent site there are 5 to 10 crappy ones.

 

[bigbear]

Betfred are also on the accredited list but you need to read their terms carefully.The sign up bonus is 'sticky' and having played there in the past,it seems that all the bonuses they offer follow the same pattern.Quite unusual I would have thought for such a huge brand to implement this.

 

[hoff1985]

Try Bet365 as well. They pay pretty fast, and they offer lots of bonuses for their standalone Playtech Download Casino. You don't get lots of offers automatically, but there's a "BONUS TEAM" button and if oyu ask them they often give you 50 or 100% slots match bonuses, especially if you lost your last deposit without taking a bonus.

 

[cnichas]

Sad but true

After looking over all the rogue casinos listed at Casinomeister, I noticed A LOT of them were from Playtech. Should I stay away from all playtech sites just to be safe? Or are there some really good exceptions? Thanks all!

Unfortunately the majority of them are terrible in thier practices, but I have had only good experiences with FLY casino and Boyle casino both are brilliant with their customer service and payouts

 

[hoff1985]

Unfortunately the majority of them are terrible in thier practices, but I have had only good experiences with FLY casino and Boyle casino both are brilliant with their customer service and payouts

Bet365 is also rocksolid!

 

[JackTenOff]

I had no idea there were so many rogue playtech operators. I assumed they were pretty solid as almost every UK based operator seems to run playtech games.

Also bet365 is by far the best option as mentioned above, can't fault them.

 

[dunover]

What's not to like about Playtake?

Apart from the shitty low RTP's of 90-92 on many of their games which decreases average playtime by over 40% compared to 96% slots, apart from allowing casinos to 'disappear' jackpot money, apart from batshit-crazy instalments on jackpots which the customer would need to be immortal to collect (if the casino never mysteriously went 'bust'), apart from some criminal operators, apart from the f*ckwit 96-hour pending many have, apart from them spreading like herpes among all the bookmakers?

Other than that they're fine.

 

[RichyJ75]

I used to play a lot of Playtech games about 18 months back (think I used Eurogrand, Mansion, Supercasino and Winner casinos) and ok, general play didn't yield much in way of RTP, but I used to play for the bonus games and progressives. Did have quite a few big wins (ok, went through a fair bit of cash trying for the bonus) on the Spiderman, Hulk and Iron Man 3 bonus rounds. I also got the progressive bonus round up 4 times resulting in wins of £1800, couple of £300+ and another of about £160. All progressive bonus rounds popped up from £2.50 per spin stakes and mainly on Spiderman. No problems in getting these paid out.

Ok, in reality these slots weren't great if wanting to play for a lengthy time with minimal loss, but lovely when the bonus rounds popped up as that is where the money is.

 

[Jono777]

Dunover pretty much beat me to it with most of what I wanted to say,

There are so much better software providers than Playtech - Scraping the barrel to put it politely if your reduced to playing their garbage offerings.

Remembering that they are there to take our money however the fairest providers atm seem to be Netent, followed by WMS.

I'd usually recommend Microgaming top but I'm in serious tin foiling mode regarding those guys presently, sure it will pass.

The original thread title sums it up nicely - minus the '?'

 

[GoldenGhoul]

I get that they have low RTP, so in the long run they're worse than MG or NetEnt.

I get that most Playtech casinos are, if not rogue, then at least not very player-friendly either.

All this doesn't change the fact that my biggest withdrawals come from Playtech. It also doesn't change the fact that Playtech slots actually do give me more playtime than Netent or MG often does - not always, but it's quite common in my case.

I had quite a few good wins on Playtech slots and some of those games I really like. I get that mathematically speaking it may be a bad choice to play those games due to their lower RTP values, but what can I say? I seem to keep winning there, so why shouldn't I play those games?

 

[michielm1]

After looking over all the rogue casinos listed at Casinomeister, I noticed A LOT of them were from Playtech. Should I stay away from all playtech sites just to be safe? Or are there some really good exceptions? Thanks all!

betfair would be accredited if they change their name

 

[dillos]

unlike what I read sometimes in the forum for me the best is lesacasino and mansion group . several years of play, several withdraw small and big no problem at all

 

[KasinoKing]

Apart from the shitty low RTP's of 90-92 on many of their games which decreases average playtime by over 40% compared to 96% slots...

I'm not Playtime's biggest fan, but I don't think it's fair to try to give the impression they have terrible RTP's.
OK, so you did say "a few" - and that's what it is. The majority are more than 95%.

Info from The Pogg's site (SOME Playtech slots - not all):
Highway King 97.06%
Halloween Fortune 97.06%
Santa Surprise 97.05%
Easter Surprise 97.05%
Skazka 97.01%
Chinese Kitchen 96.92%
Silver Bullet 96.86%
Wild Gambler 96.67%
Reel Classic 5 96.45%
Desert Treasure 2 96.21%
Safari Heat 96.16%
Rome and Glory 96.08%
Football Fans 96.08%
Captain’s Treasure Pro 96.08%
Gin Joint Jackpot 96.00%
Frankie Dettori’s Magic Seven 95.99%
Zhao Cia Jin Bao 95.99%
Hot Gems 95.99%
Atlantis Queen 95.98%
Benchwarmers Football Girls 95.97%
Top Trumps Football Legends 95.96%
Top Trumps Celebs 95.96%
Diamond Valley Pro 95.88%
Silent Samurai 95.72%
Goddess of Life 95.57%
Tennis Stars 95.55%
Kong Eighth Wonder of the World 95.50%
Mr Cashback 95.46%
Pink Panther 95.39%
Cops N Bandits 95.31%
Ice Hockey 95.26%
Thrill Seekers 95.26%
Wild Games 95.24%
Daring Dave and the Eye of Ra 95.18%
Bonus Bear 95.17%
Panther Moon 95.17%
Punisher 95.08%
Samba Brazil 95.08%
Spider Man – Attack of the Green Goblin 95.08%
X-Men 95.03%
Top Trumps World Cup Stars 95.03%
Top Trumps Tennis Stars 95.03%
Top Trumps European Football Stars 95.03%
Ghost Rider 95.03%
Rocky 95.02%
Top Trumps Celebs Cards 95.02%
The Avengers 95.02%
Blade 95.01%
Top Trumps Horror Cards 95.01%
Iron Man 2 94.99%
Archer 94.99%
Thai Paradise 94.99%
The Jazz Club 94.91%
The Incredible Hulk 94.82%
Dolphin Cash 94.58%
Slotblox 94.50%
DareDevil 94.45%
Haunted House 94.41%
True Love 94.35%
Captain America 94.31%
Around the World 94.26%
Penguin Vacation 94.25%
X Men 94.25%
Great Blue 94.25%
Banana Monkey 94.25%
Marilyn Monroe 94.10%
Coffin Up The Cash 94.10%
Gladiator 94.09%
Cherry Love 94.09%
Sparta 94.09%
Midas Millions 94.02%
Dragon Kingdom 94.02%
Everybody’s Jackpot 94.01%
Cowboys and Aliens 94.01%