For those of you that think slots (and roulette, and the rest) are rigged / compensated, consider the following questions first.
Allright, I totally qualify.
1. Can you prove beyond doubt using statistical evidence that games are rigged / compensated? Or is it just purely based on a "feeling"?
No, I cannot prove that games whose maths are known (roulette, poker) or public are rigged because I haven't scrupulously collected enough statistical data to prove it. I think I have experienced or observed enough odd events in enough rounds to make a statistical conclusion possible, thus a certain "feeling" for those games.
For games whose "random" math models are company secrets, well there is no statistical evidence possible unless there is a model to compare it to, is it ? maybe an artificial intelligence controls the game, because gamblers are so predictable and it's just about win/loss result, not creating a piece of art.
And if there is a math model with a RNG behind each proprietary game, if it is made public, who is gonna play 10 billion spins 0.25€ a round and collect this data to draw conclusions ? let alone playing higher stakes. Won't happen. And Internet being what it is, you cannot really rely on a collective of players either.
So in any case, for those games, the question of statistical evidence provided by the players is either flawed or impossible from the start.
2. It is illegal (in regulated markets) and the software providers risk losing their licence, and compensating or rigging would be fraud, and therefore a criminal offense. The directors, or the software developers, or both, could go to prison for quite a long time. Is it really worth it - i would seriously doubt many people would say yes.
Honest question here: is it really illegal? Those directors and developers risk higher fines and imprisonment by driving a car on the way to work than at work. I don't think
3. Given that casinos can make more money by running lower RTP versions of the games, why do they need to "rig" games when they already have the edge? They already have the ability to increase that edge should they so choose by running games at a lower RTP where games providers supply them.
Greed.
4. Nearly all games providers are in competition with each other - so why would they then work together on complex and illegal software?
Nearly all drug dealers are in competition with each other. So why would they work together on more complex and dangerous methods of cutting the dope ? I don't know why they would have to work together, but I understand why they would all work on it.
I don't know what catC, B4, B3 is, I'll just assume they're games with money.
5. If i was going to compensate a game (and i've done compensated Cat C, B4 and some old B3 games) why would we compensate in such a way to make it OBVIOUS that it's ripping your arms off ?
Because you can. Because you use a bad AI. Because gamblers arms will grow again. Because you don't have to make the math model public, you can always say it's an unlucky-1000-loss-in-a-row, legally.
The whole point of compensation is control - so if we CAN control the games, why make it so obvious and make them play so badly. Pissing players off does nothing other than lose customers, so your reasoning makes no sense.
To piss off a gambler, you have to rip his head off. Literally. Anything else, like player wins 1000x, or casino cheats player, is a win for the casino industry in the short and long term.
6. Why has not one single pissed off disgruntled or sacked employee come out and spilled the beans. Ever.
Dead men tell no tales. Or maybe there is no such thing as pissed off disgruntled ex-employee.
There aren't many whistleblowiers, free, with unshattered career out there. But maybe there is
7. Have you heard of Apophenia - it refers to a universal human tendency to seek patterns in random information, such as gambling. It's also called the "Gambler's Fallacy" -
- this describes exactly the feeling that you (and most of us on here) have when gambling. Except only a few make the jump to rigged. And yes this is a provable phenomenon. The POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS section might give you some insight, but all of it is worth a read - here's an excerpt:
The gambler's fallacy is a deep-seated cognitive bias and can be very hard to overcome. Educating individuals about the nature of randomness has not always proven effective in reducing or eliminating any manifestation of the fallacy. Participants in a study by Beach and Swensson in 1967 were shown a shuffled deck of index cards with shapes on them, and were instructed to guess which shape would come next in a sequence. The experimental group of participants was informed about the nature and existence of the gambler's fallacy, and were explicitly instructed not to rely on run dependency to make their guesses. The control group was not given this information. The response styles of the two groups were similar, indicating that the experimental group still based their choices on the length of the run sequence. This led to the conclusion that instructing individuals about randomness is not sufficient in lessening the gambler's fallacy
I haven't heard the scientific term but know the phenomena.
I don't jump to the Rigged caravan because of 10 loss-in-a-row covering 33 numbers of the roulette table or 40% RTP 5000 spins sessions, or the opposite. I jump on that caravan after weighting all arguments.
8. If you are still adamant we are a lying bunch of crooks, i'm a liar and just here to further the misdirection, then honestly - why play at all?
I don't play anymore.
TM
