William Hill Practice mode, WTF??

[paul02085]

"But I'll tell you what, I ain't volunteering to test it out in real mode at 45 a spin! "

LMAO

 

[Slotmachine]

Browsing some old topics I bumped into this
(quote from Ed Ware, CEO of 32Red follows)
Just to confirm for anyone still wondering and please excuse the lack of technical jargon.....

The Random Number Generator does not recognize whether a bet is for fun, for 1 or for 1000 (or USD or EUR). It simply produces a random result. For this reason, you have to be connected to the Internet to play at 32Red as you are actually connecting to the gaming server and RNG.

There are other casino gaming software specialists out there whose products do allow you to play offline for fun. Quite clearly, this offline fun experience would differ for the player from the real money gambling experience when connected to the gaming servers. We don't believe that this is the right approach!

This whole area was one of the reasons 32Red selected Microgaming as our gaming platform providers.
(end of quote)
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I think that actually answers a host of questions that have been raised in the forums lately, i.e. play mode vs fun mode -> MG play mode and real money have the same payout%; small bets v large bets -> no difference in outcome, etc...

I agree that play mode and real mode should be identical, otherwise it's deceptive marketing. Looks like MG is solid this way, and again I am convinced that if there's one casino that has actually thought everything through and is being run by true pros, it's good ol' 32Red.

Cheers,
SM

 

[vinylweatherman]

Fun VS Real

My most recent experiment with Jacks or Better 50-hand VP in MG Fun mode showed no difference in outcome to what would be expected in real mode.
Any fun mode played solely on the user's PC, as opposed to the server, will most likely play differently in at least some respects to what would be expected in real mode. The RNG on a PC is not as sophisticated as the RNG used for a casino server, as it is a pseudo-random generator on a PC, whereas a commercial RNG will provide a much more random stream, and will also be feeding this stream to many players.
It looks like this is something that might have been overlooked in the programming of these random jackpot slots. If Cryptologic made a consious decision to make fun mode a 100%+ experience they should be castigated by the Gibraltean authorities for enticing gambling with a false representation of the chance of winning.

 

[cheekymonkey]

i dont know about the rest of you, but when i used to play in practise mode i had an infinite bank roll and i kept replenishing my roll until i hit the nice win - and when that win came in, i either cried 'yeah, it was due anyway as ive just deposited $300 about 65 times' or 'yeah, its so fixed in play mode'

ive done it before

NEVER AGAIN

 

[hitobito2005]

Decided to try this out for myself at Will Hill on fun mode 45/spin and won the Super Hero Jackpot ~20,000 after 80 spins!