Terrific comparison there, truly
Must be great to place your unconditional trust in a company or product like that, without question. Even as in Snorky's case, where he's being shafted every which way, only to nonchalantly handwave away someone else's experiences like that. I wish I could be as submissive to these trusting companies!
And yet we are told to put up or shut up.....and so players will go along with that, playing games they've been told are fine, all to see that RTP even itself out. And if it happens to not do so, then one's told to not put one more cent through the game, as that would be stupid, right?
Guess I'd best get investing in that lube, things are gonna get bumpy! Because lord help the person that speaks out!
.....and should one have lost a shit-ton already, well, never mind eh. It's just the natural order of things!
Only in this industry I tell ya!
I get what your saying but even if they did 10% of individuals accounts that's alot of money across the board.But again - why would they want to rig an individual account? What possible good could come from it? They’re already making money through letting that player play a game. Why rig one out of hundreds, and thousands of players?
I genuinely can’t think of a single good reason.
And it’s never people on a winning streak claiming the games feel “off”; it’s always the losers. Even when the losers were days earlier on a winning streak.
Humans always see patterns in things that aren’t there, and rarely complain when they’re happy, even if they “know” something isn’t “right” - if it’s in their favour, they’re happy.
If these supposedly upstanding pillars of the community can harbour individuals that cannot help exploiting the system or their power. Don’t tell me for a second, that an industry that by its own very nature, is unethical and immoral, is squeaky bloody clean for god’s sake.
I've been skulking on here for years.
Never posted publicly.
'Til now.
For moi, this thread is so disheartening in so many respects.
In one corner we have The White Hats: those who insist slot programming and functionalities are as they're officially -- legally -- and claimed and required to be. And that, in the absence of appropriate evidence to the contrary, the rest of us can and should -- must -- understand and believe that.
In the other corner are The Black Hats: those who insist that what we're asked to believe is essentially theoretical, acceptance of and belief is just blind faith in the undeserving, and that the rest of us can and should -- must -- understand and believe the richness and poorness of our own personal experiences.
To be blunt, neither Hat can back up their claims -- at least for lowly CM members like moi --with clear, certain and irrefutable, objective evidence. Both sides are relying on a pretty normal combo of selected "facts", selective "information" - and personal insights and understandings.
So, within this forum at least, neither Hat can be proven right. And neither can be proven wrong. There's something else the Hats seem to share: Arguing their case with absolute commitment, conviction and unrestrained passion.
For someone who's here to learn, I felt this thread could and should have become one of the more useful and important "discussions and analysis" of one of the more uber-important subjects to all of us. Sadly, that didn't happen - not even close, on account of passions overtaking sensibilities and even civilities. There's no learning in sarcasm; there's no education in disdain.
It's my hope that maybe this small book from me will make a tiny contribution to a widespread effort being made to restore this thread's value and substance.
So let me go first.
Up here, where we sell milk by the bag, there's a bricks/mortar casino in the nation's capital that's operated by a 'lil outfit called Hard Rock Cafe International.
The casino's own corporate-speak promises that "the RTP for all slot machines is no less than the 85% as legally required". Slots account for almost all of this casino's revenues.
Them there Hard Rock folks aren't small potatoes: Forbes cites their annual revenues at just over $3 billion.
Hard Rock lead the news here two months ago with this: "The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has fined the operator of the Rideau Carleton Casino more than $227,000 for dozens (ed: a total of 36) of alleged regulatory violations, including "repeatedly" (ed: over a period of almost two years) failing to implement, follow and enforce anti-money laundering policies and (ed: Commission-prescribed) procedures."
Seems to me The White Hats hang a lot of their arguments on the claims that casinos/developers (eg) "don't have to" tinker with RTPs or variances ... and "the risk of tinkering wouldn't be worth it to them."
Running 85% slots (!!!), Hard Rock hardly needed to make up their own playbook to put food on the table. But they did it anyhow. Fact. One doesn't mean all, obviously; but nobody ever got themselves worse off over estimating greed.
All to say can we carry on with this thread and respectfully explore what actually might be, and why - what's actually a possibility ... however unverified, however unverifiable?
Cheers.
It’s interesting, albeit not surprising, that you decided to ignore my post about Lightning Roulette. The one post that offers video evidence of a game of chance that is clearly not random.Yes but the White Hats are coming from a starting position of the games being developed, tested, regulated and licensed in tightly regulated jurisdictions where the penalties for non-compliance are extremely harsh. Maybe the lack of evidence that the games aren't bent is because..... they're not bent? Why make a bent 96% game when you can just release a 94% maths model of it? You've just increased the house edge by 50% at a stroke and done it entirely within the rules.
VS are running Mystery Reels Megaways at 93.09%, a house edge of 6.91%, there's your con, right there, in plain sight! No further trickery required.
Almost anything is a possibility, it's a possibility that the entire universe is simply a construct of goatwack's imagination and we are all neurons in his intergalactic sized brain, and everything that happens in our lives is based on how happy he is with his daily God-sized sandwich. I mean, it's highly unlikely, but it's a possibility, right? It might be, right?
Random games with a house edge make money as a mathematical certainty, if the casinos want to make more money, they can run games with a lower RTP. Has Bonanza been changed? I don't know. Some people seem sure it has, and maybe they're right. But if it's certified and it makes RTP then it ultimately makes no difference anyway, I still don't understand the point of doing this when the RTP is identical and the game is so popular anyway, and yeah it would be a bit scummy to change a game without telling the players, but it's within the rules.
You only have had to live life a little bit to realise that this world is not all unicorns and lollipops.
I watched all of them Chopley ... some were hard and painful to view! But showed the true misery of the flip side of gambling ... worthy uploads if somewhat very depressing to sit through !Ha! If only my Gambling Low Ebbs videos were still online.
I watch all of them Chopley ... some were hard and painful to view! But showed the true misery of the flip side of gambling ... worthy uploads if somewhat very depressing to sit through !