The single most annoying behaviour of any slot ever....

[ChopleyIOM]

What's your nomination for the most annoying single aspect of any single slot?

Here's mine.

The WMS slot Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers is, like many WMS slots, pretty damn good. (Probably one of my favourite on the software.)

However, there's one perplexingly irritating thing that it does, entirely as the result of a deliberate design decision, that drives me nuts.

It has the equivalent of a 'Wild Desire' feature, you hear Dorothy say 'What's happening?' and then one at a time, bubbles fly into the screen to turn a reel wild. Each bubble turns a single reel wild.

You can get as few as one bubble for a single reel wild, and as many as four bubbles to turn four reels wild (it can't do all five).

(It's very similar to the way that Wild Desire turns one reel at a time wild, and you've got the tension of wondering if it'll do another, or stop and add up the wins.)

So far, so familiar, but what Ruby Slippers does sometimes (and it's not even that rare), is the bubble will fly into the screen but 'bounce off' the reel and then off the screen again, so you thought you were going to get three reels wild and some nice big wins, but instead you're stuck with two reels wild and naff all.

I just can't understand the design thinking behind it, that someone somewhere thought this was a good idea. (Can you imagine how pissed you'd be if Wild Desire starting doing the animation for a reel going wild, and then quickly undid it?)

It's bad enough when you're doing well, but if the slot is rolling badly to start with, having what finally looks like being a decent hit get snatched away is truly infuriating. (I've quit out of it on more than one occasion when it's pulled that shit on me.)

Would be interested to hear what others' nominations are, I'm not talking about an entire slot that you hate, but one aspect of a slot that you otherwise like, that really annoys you.

 

[plasticnote]

GIRLS WITH GUNS BONUS - the wild reel always lands on the reel with wild(s) already...

 

[Greigssy]

On Ruby Slippers that happened to me 3 times in a row with 2 reels wild already,the first time it happened I was most annoyed as the reels were nicely set up for a large win.

Immortal Romance:The wild vine feature rarely hits reels 1,2 and 4
Again the wild vine, when wilds that are not on an active pay-line the animation starts anyway. This happens on a few MGS newer slots and its just sloppy design.

 

[dunover]

Right, I know from previous experience I'm not alone in being extremely pissed-off with 'Congratulations you won 0 coins' after a blank bonus round, instead of the graphics saying 'tough luck, I have to do this sometimes - now piss-off and pretend it never happened'......

Being more specific, on Immortal Romance the repeated 'clang' of the scatter landing on reel 1 (which it seems to do with amazing regularity and effectively reduces the slot to a 162-way one ) gives me a headache after 10 minutes when I am using my Bluetooth headphones which I do in my little world of slotting.

Starburst - the fact the bastard is even in existence pisses me off no end.

Hitman - when it's playing crap you will repeatedly get the stupid pick scatters on reels 2 and 3 which effectively stops any other reasonable wins.

Cashapillar - the stupid and repeated habit it has of putting yellow symbols plus granddads on reel 1 then immediately drops in the green/red bugs position on reel 2 so the rest of the animation is dead as is the spin already. This happens on 10 consecutive spins regularly.

BDBA - when the 'heartstopper' spin is happening, i.e. you have 2 safes and the FINAL reel remains as your last chance of the 3rd. it nearly always drops in the bundle of banknotes. Reason? It's the most similar in appearance to the safe symbol and thus it will annoy you more. The spiteful bastards.

Jack and the Beanstalk - the little gimp's grinning face annoys me endlessly as he drops in with no intention of a win, just to rule out 1/3 of the perms of 3oak you can get.

 

[michielm1]

chateau rouge - playtech scatter and bonus symbols sound only when hitting it or just missing it

tails of ny and perfect date - bet on soft wheels slow down already at 1st scatter, even if the first of the necessery 3, comes on the 4th roll

further just about any slot i lose money on

edit: and i fokking hate immortal romance

 

[stoney]

For me, typically on non-win spins you'll see the symbols spell out:

KAK
KAKK
KAKA
or KAKKA

yeah...I know you're playing cr*p but thanks for spelling it out for me...

 

[Greigssy]

I will add Elements on net-ent. Every other spins seems to have 3 winning falls in a row, always teasing and never the fourth win for the free spins.

 

[chayton]

I once got 5 scatters on Hitman. It paid nothing and didn't give me any extra spins either.

 

[weesie]

For me it is some 3Dice slots:

Ching Ching : cuts you bonus round in half or doubles, mostly cuts.

Stickshifter: get the symbol enough, rack up tons of free spins only to go TOO far and blow transmission and lose all of those free spins.

The others can be mean too, Fortune Falls: I almost always get only 3 free spins with 3 butterflies. It might as well say "you lose"



They are down-right cruel!

 

[kidgloves]

1) Ruby Slippers - getting 1 character and the reel 5 Wizard/Witch/Crystal Ball and then the respin chucking a shed load of blanks. Just give me a losing normal spin please.

2) Any game that during free spins doesn't let you click on the play area to start the next free spin. Particularly annoying when you get say 7 or 8 winning combos that add up to a mediocre amount and you just want to get on with it.

3) Wildstorm on Thunderstruck II - end of.

 

[Sovietsky]

Ruby Slippers, I belive I got all characters once but nothing on the last reel.

Immortal Romance, 3 wild desires on reel 3,4,5 and zero win. Sarah bonus, wild vine in middle and on reel 5 usally no win or small win.

 

[Tropicana50]

- T

 

[Sovietsky]

Everytime Gonzo does that to me.
I don't mind if I get only 2 of them but 3 and not on an active line pisses me off.

 

[bigjohn]

For me it's a general behavior across too many slots.

Who ever thought it was a good idea that when you get two triggers and you are waiting for the third the remaining wheels have to go at 800 MPH... or turn real slow?

Just let them roll normally. Jeez!

 

[albrco123]

I'm with dunover worst thing is being told congratulations you won 0 coins from your long awaited "bonus" round, why can't they just say Ha Ha You Lost...

Al

 

[mattsgame]

Right, I know from previous experience I'm not alone in being extremely pissed-off with 'Congratulations you won 0 coins' after a blank bonus round, instead of the graphics saying 'tough luck, I have to do this sometimes - now piss-off and pretend it never happened'......

This, BDBA is a terrible candidate for it. Games like 3Dices new Enchanted spins where the wizard expands to give you 3 9's for a total of sweet fa and you just wish the wizard never popped up in the first place. (there's more games like it, not picking on 3Dice it was just the first that came to mind.

Other things that annoy me are when a slots 2 scatters pay nothing and where more than 3 scatters gives you nothing extra.

 

[Jd666]

Picking 2 traps straight away on that passport bonus on tombraider secret of the sword

 

[Flyer187]

TS2 Wildstorm - hands down

 

[gokkie]

On any RTG slot: the third scatter you need for free spins just falls short or below the screen SO many times!
So annoying especially when running bad it totally freaks me out.

 

[kazzi]

For me it's a general behavior across too many slots.

Who ever thought it was a good idea that when you get two triggers and you are waiting for the third the remaining wheels have to go at 800 MPH... or turn real slow?

Just let them roll normally. Jeez!

You would love playing the danish netent casino's then that is removed since its illegal in the danish casino licenss.

 

[LaHutti]

I agree Chopley...I think it's the only business, where the designers deliberately try to piss their customers off .... ? I never got that part myself,

 

[albrco123]

And can someone please tell 3Dice (my fav casino) that a 5x win on Enchanted Spins is not a "Nice Win", maybe start those messages at 50X

Al

 

[Wild Reels]

it does seem to be someones bright idea to "tease" the player, but like many others i just find it annoying, recent example is net-ents silent run when you think an echo bonus is going to land, the middle reel goes all funky and then it stops either above or below the paylines, well when that occurs im more than likely sticking 2 fingers up at the screen in return, just give me a standard losing spin if its not going to land thanks

 

[De Beuker]

I try to play Batman lately, TDK, but that joker drives me nuts, interrupting the game all the time for prizes ranging from 0.5x bet to 2.5x bet max.

Silly.

 

[Greigssy]

We have a new contender.

The latest Net-Ent slot 'Egg-0-matic' has many frustrating features. If you give it a try you will see why. Especially the free-spins which are shocking.

This slot is only available right now at Betsafe afaik.

 

[dunover]

Another bad feature is the silly levels at which 'big win' video sequences start with all the bells and whistles. On Netent and MG you get the gold coins and chimes at a mere 15x stake upwards, eg. wild rockets and TSII. So, you've just endured 50 straight spins winning zero or fractions of a credit when the slot kindly bestows upon you a mere 15x stake then proceeds to give an exhibition as if the Second Coming has just occurred. Nevermind this 'big win' has just changed your current session RTP from 60% to 65%, hey you've had a 'BIG WIN' grrrrr...

30x upwards maybe, but 15x - you're 'aving a larf......

 

[Greigssy]

The big,mega,super win on WMS slots is probably the best setup. Although it becomes annoying if you get a all the bells and whistles in a bonus round for a big win count up and then have to sit through it again on returning to the base game.

 

[Sovietsky]

I personaly think it should be something like 50-100x stake big win and perhaps 100+ to maybe 300x stake super big win and 300+ mega big win and 1000+ stake should be sick win.

 

[Nate]

I tend to dislike the Slots where you have to reveal spins and multipliers from blocks. I usually get the 'Start Free Spins' or choose the booby trap right away ...

I couldn't agree more about the 'Big Win... Mega Win, Stupid Win' thing going. Seems like one provider does it and all the others follow like Sheep - Even making their own Stupid terms for stupidly low wins.... FFS 5 - 10x or even 20x Bet does not need animation and someone telling me its a friggin Nice, Big or Super Mega whens its outright CRAP.

Nate

 

[goatwack]

Well for me it was the 'Little Brittain' slot, after having Anne put 5 Wilds straight across the screen and seeing the obligatory 'BIG WIN' sequence I was disturbed when it stopped at just over £20! Yes it had been a minimal bet of 30p.....but still.

Another annoying slot would be Jack and the Beanstalk, getting a running wild bob all the way across the screen from right to left without hitting anything at all!

 

[Greigssy]

Silent Run-When the damn sonar falls just above or just below the paylines.

I recently had this happen 5 times in a row and when I was in my last £10 of my balance,it seriously pissed me off.

 

[dunover]

I remember on Playtech that f****** f****** f****** pop-up in the grey box that would smugly tell you 'Mr. DonkeyBolox has just won the minor jackpot of $487' which would inevitably occur when you had just had 60 spins without winning above 2x stake and no bonus round.......

 

[suomikala87]

Most annoying behavior is hoovering your money but this is universal so I'd nominate the following:

Microgaming's Immortal Romance and the last freespin option wild vine that starts with 25spins. The wild vine symbol makes the extra wilds in order starting from first reel (if you are lucky) to the last fifth reel. Often though it starts from the third reel and thus it can't drop any wilds to 1-2 reels no more. Very often you don't connect anything to the 3rd reel and thus there is no possibility for you to win. There is also no skipping the animation for the extra wilds and often I've witnessed extra wilds in all last three reels... while being 100% certain there isn't going to be any wins. Very frustrating and IMO a huge mistake for otherwise one of the best games around

 

[vinylweatherman]

Perhaps someone should write a comedy slot that takes the piss to the extreme about all the annoying little niggles that slots players have to suffer.


EDIT:

Oh Crap!!!


Microgaming beat me to it

 

[ic0]

The big,mega,super win on WMS slots is probably the best setup. Although it becomes annoying if you get a all the bells and whistles in a bonus round for a big win count up and then have to sit through it again on returning to the base game.

The big win animations can be skipped after a few seconds (I want to say it's something like 5 seconds?). Click anywhere on the screen with the slot in it and the animation will cut out early.

 

[Wild Reels]

i'm adding pamplona to the thread , finally got a feature on this after a few spins tonight, previously it ate my bank roll without even blinking,

finally hit a bonus round and took the 30 spins option, in these first 30 spins the bonus retriggered 3 more times (you get to pick a new option after the spins), retriggered again on the next round but you can only retrigger a max of 3 times in total.. and retriggered once more..

so decided to opt for slightly higher multiplier options and less spins,

finished the bonus after 95 spins at x60

i wouldnt mind x60 on 1 bonus round but effectively 4 in a row paying x60 is piss poor, and the cap on retriggers..

 

[LaurieJim]

Tritans Treasure does it to me everytime but like a dummy I go back , it annoys the piss out of me , even the music sucks , the red heads sound like they are on crack with all that whaling, skin is crawling now just thinking about it


Laurie

 

[Andy Walker]

What's your nomination for the most annoying single aspect of any single slot?

Here's mine.

The WMS slot Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers is, like many WMS slots, pretty damn good. (Probably one of my favourite on the software.)

However, there's one perplexingly irritating thing that it does, entirely as the result of a deliberate design decision, that drives me nuts.

It has the equivalent of a 'Wild Desire' feature, you hear Dorothy say 'What's happening?' and then one at a time, bubbles fly into the screen to turn a reel wild. Each bubble turns a single reel wild.

You can get as few as one bubble for a single reel wild, and as many as four bubbles to turn four reels wild (it can't do all five).

(It's very similar to the way that Wild Desire turns one reel at a time wild, and you've got the tension of wondering if it'll do another, or stop and add up the wins.)

So far, so familiar, but what Ruby Slippers does sometimes (and it's not even that rare), is the bubble will fly into the screen but 'bounce off' the reel and then off the screen again, so you thought you were going to get three reels wild and some nice big wins, but instead you're stuck with two reels wild and naff all.

I just can't understand the design thinking behind it, that someone somewhere thought this was a good idea. (Can you imagine how pissed you'd be if Wild Desire starting doing the animation for a reel going wild, and then quickly undid it?)

It's bad enough when you're doing well, but if the slot is rolling badly to start with, having what finally looks like being a decent hit get snatched away is truly infuriating. (I've quit out of it on more than one occasion when it's pulled that shit on me.)

Would be interested to hear what others' nominations are, I'm not talking about an entire slot that you hate, but one aspect of a slot that you otherwise like, that really annoys you.

Life of Luxury on JPP where the amount you have won is already on screen above before the bonus animation ends?

 

[vinny187666]

This thread is painful to read! My pet hate is not being able to skip count ups, especially when you get like 5c on 10 different lines, uggh

 

[Takkaone]

since discovering the fun of playing several mgs-slots at the same time in different windows, i always get annoyed about the balance in one window often showing (or including) the win from the other slot...

this gets very annoying, if playing like TS2 or Immortal Romance, as you know beforehand, if a Wildstorm or Wild Desire gives out a nice win... (as you can see the new, bigger balance on the other slot). sure, i could try not to look / peak, but most of the time it happens to fast.

 

[mrmark21]

Yep some of the reasons I've stopped playing. Slots tend to try and tease you so you think youre going to win instead they just piss me off... Getting two scatters on the first two reels and not the third over and over and over again just get's a little bit old.

Low paying free spins (under 10-20x on $1.50 bets) i'd prefer not to get a feature when they all pay like that. Slots loose allot of the excitement when you constantly loose.

 

[DepositSpinLose]

lol

when I know dead spins are happening I hit max bet till either I break (which is happening anyways) or till I hit a feature and that fixes everything.....seems to reset everything.

any tinfoils on that?

 

[Keiju]

Most annoying behavior is hoovering your money but this is universal so I'd nominate the following:

Microgaming's Immortal Romance and the last freespin option wild vine that starts with 25spins. The wild vine symbol makes the extra wilds in order starting from first reel (if you are lucky) to the last fifth reel. Often though it starts from the third reel and thus it can't drop any wilds to 1-2 reels no more. Very often you don't connect anything to the 3rd reel and thus there is no possibility for you to win. There is also no skipping the animation for the extra wilds and often I've witnessed extra wilds in all last three reels... while being 100% certain there isn't going to be any wins. Very frustrating and IMO a huge mistake for otherwise one of the best games around

This is the one for me also. Why does it have to go in order from first reel to the last? It would be so easy to fix. Just sometimes brake the pattern.

 

[spoton]

Gonzos Quest. That little tard on the side going all crazy when you win a 2xbet after 10 rounds of nothing.

 

[PCJACKPOT2008]

I have so many that if I start writing them down I will stop playing.

One of the most annoying thing is that you could tell if the Mystery symbol-feature will hit during Run Mode on BSG just by how the first reel line up.

 

[Balthazar]

I once got 5 scatters on Hitman. It paid nothing and didn't give me any extra spins either.

Same with JatB. I can't believe any slot designer would do that kind of sh*t.

My biggest pet peeve is when you get a feature that add a wild on a spot that already has a wild on it (ie: Batman "shooting" wilds on TDK or the Sarah and Troy features on IR).