When I play slots its equal time between MG and RG, a bit less playing on Rival. I havent beaten those slots the way I want.
1) Max cashouts everywhere. This means many big wins get confisacted simply because your lucky day coincided with you using a coupon with a max cashout. This does NOT happen at MGS.
Agree about that max cashout is too bad.
Max cashouts on deposits are bad in another way too. The confiscated win over the max is used..where?
When total rtp is calculated these money probably are forgotten about and the system thinks its paid to players. The casinos official RTP shows shows as 97% instead of maybe 93%.
However, the average Rival is much worse than the average RTG when it comes to max cashouts. Even rogue RTG has a lot of No max cashout coupons. But as someone else said here before, they dont have to have a max if the player doesnt get money at all..
2) Phantom bonuses - despite WR being pretty large, the bonuses are phantom in most cases (there are exceptions, such as iNetBet).
Agree on this one as well, but the average Rival is worse than the average RTG.
3) Bonus bans - increasing reports of bonus bans, and NOT just for blatant "bonus abuse" strategies. iNetBet, for example, are banning LOSING players purely because they are getting too much "free entertainment" for their money by taking too many coupons with their deposits.
Bonus banning WINNERS is a different matter, it's pretty common, although operators tend to give out a load of Bullshit, rather than admit a player has been bonus banned simply for winning more than the house threshold from their account.
Lately we have seen strange things with RTG operators. One operator doesnt want a player to deposit without bonus and another bonus ban losing players.
iNetBet have cashable bonuses and are afraid of advantage players. I can see their point. But its always annoying for players to see that other players can use offers you cant use.
The different RTP settings DO cause negative feeling because whenever a player has a losing streak, they CANNOT be certain it isn't down to the games being on a lower setting than in the past, and there have been contradictory reports from operators regarding when & how such changes are made.
I am sure that all software providers use almost similar "effects" but the fact that all people "know" that the operator can ask RTG to lower settings makes people wonder.
Personally I dont care of this at all. I dont want to call all online slots "rigged" but I am sure that the RTP differs from time to time at most casinos. What it is that "triggers" lower and higher RTP I dont know but I think that a "bigger" win lowers it.
If I have 20 freespins on MG and I win a lot on the second spin I most times automatically never win much on the last 18 spins.
Its like the RTP gets lower after that win. The system thinks you have won enough.
Its the same with the bonus game on Wealth Spa where you can save many bonus coins and use them when you want. If you then take the cheapest bonus game and take it several times in a row the first one always is best paid.
When the RTP "returns" to the normal state again I dont know. Maybe it accumulates all players bets or it is based on time. I do know that after a win your bet on a slot machine I change machine and can return after a while and win some more.
On Rival slots you can see that games "look different" when you lower or higher your bet.
It seems really strange to see more bonus symbols an wilds when you increase your bet.
Its probably because they use same thing as MG but they have one "curve" for each bet. If you win big on a 60 coint bet you dont have to change machine, you can increase or decrease your bet.
On MG and RTG you can often "feel" that the game has a high RTP at the moment and you can heavily increase your bet to really win money.