Disgraceful programming from Scientific Games
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:13 am
This is a gripe in general, but it has been sparked by a specific incident.
So firstly, On 25p £100 jackpot Elvis Jukebox (T777), how much for the first pick? £110 for £1.50 back. (Unless your OB)
Secondly, I will be contacting the programmer and asking for an explanation. It's a compensated game. How on earth is that sort of gameplay let through to a final product? AS a result of that utterly disgraceful gameplay, I certainly will NEVER EVER play that game ever again and I would urge others to boycott it as well. I mean all it has to do ffs it offer jacks for multiples of 10p....is that too much to ask? Obviously yes! It could afford to give picks every fiver and still be high variance! Oh no, that's too much to ask.
Thirdly. Why is it acceptable to release games way behind %? The 92% £70 Martians had a very obvious sign when they had value. It took many thousands cycled to get them into this state. The game is advertised at 92% but for the first few thousand played through it's more like 70%, eventually it does plateau out and FROM THAT POINT (important to note this, basically a 22%ish EXTRA house edge has been fraudulently taken off the customer for the first few cycled Ks) starts to actually pay the 92% advertised. How is this even legal? I'll tell you how, we have such lax testing measures for these games. Software designers can get away with murder.
Fourthly. Pure Pots/Gold etc When they were first released, they were great. You talk to any players who play beyond hi techs. They were value and that's a fact. Then of course they got tweaked and tweaked and tweaked. Now you have Pure Gold. Which if it's on any sort of pots at all, miraculously takes £500-£2000 to pay the pot you're after. Shocking disgraceful games. Are they random? Bullshit.
Fifthly. £500 Martians v1.8 Why ON EARTH would you lower the reset pot value to £100 silver on £2 a go? Then lower the minimum beam me up to *2 stake from *5 stake? THEN lower the pay table values on £2? So it'll play much better right? NO. Unlike the 1.7s and earlier it never banks, all I will say is you may, just may see asteroid bonus slightly more often and then it adores values over pots. What a con for the operators who have bought this to see it sitting, after six months on £100.16 and £50.16 as NO ONE is tempted to play it. What dingbat thought that those changes were a good idea. I mean we all know you like to release a game and a first it's fair across the estate then gradually it gets patched and tweaked until it's impossible to win on.
Sixthly. What's with the high variance shite in general? Yes this is partly about Pure Gold, but Dracula? Another game with an obvious honeymoon period across the estate. Easy to get features to on the first couple of days then BAM! Feature = about as easy to get as pots on Pure Pots. There's a new Rocky game. Italian Stallion. Basically it's like Oz freespins but Wilds step down ala Wild Knights and there's a Wicked Witch, sorry, bell on reel 3. Round one being get one bell for out up to round three being three bells for out. There are also pots on reels 1,3 and 5. It's shite. You also get knockout bonus which will punch out a win for money back or stake*2. See those four jackpots minus the one....BOOF! BOOF! How exciting four tens for money back. COOOOOOL!!!!! WAY COOOOOLL BRO!!!!!! Sarcasm intended. Or promoter bonus. What is more exciting than getting three jacks for 50p.....? Why with a times two multiplier you now win a quid. UBER COOOOOL!!!! BLOWING MY MIND WITH THESE CRAZY BONII!!! My point is with these high variance games it's ROCK HARD to actually get ahead, but so easy to lose lose lose lose all the time. YES! I'm aware some % is lost to the pointless shitty wins which you have to cycle thereby increasing overall house edge BUT regardless, I'm calling this one. These games are crook.
SO there you have it. A company that once had a few decent games are now utter shithouses. I can't think of a single game I'd actually want to get involved in. Ah wait! Mushrooms......ahhhhh no......oh look someone has left high pots....obviously hasn't done gold and streak has it?
That's me done with any of their products. The business model is now to fleece anyone daft enough to play 'em. It's the same as most of the ultra spin games in bookies.
So if anyone has any useful input, such as the mobile number of whoever programmed Elvis or even an email address, feel free to let me know. Otherwise let the smug, odious, sarcastic, pious, superiority complex enriched comments begin!
So firstly, On 25p £100 jackpot Elvis Jukebox (T777), how much for the first pick? £110 for £1.50 back. (Unless your OB)
Secondly, I will be contacting the programmer and asking for an explanation. It's a compensated game. How on earth is that sort of gameplay let through to a final product? AS a result of that utterly disgraceful gameplay, I certainly will NEVER EVER play that game ever again and I would urge others to boycott it as well. I mean all it has to do ffs it offer jacks for multiples of 10p....is that too much to ask? Obviously yes! It could afford to give picks every fiver and still be high variance! Oh no, that's too much to ask.
Thirdly. Why is it acceptable to release games way behind %? The 92% £70 Martians had a very obvious sign when they had value. It took many thousands cycled to get them into this state. The game is advertised at 92% but for the first few thousand played through it's more like 70%, eventually it does plateau out and FROM THAT POINT (important to note this, basically a 22%ish EXTRA house edge has been fraudulently taken off the customer for the first few cycled Ks) starts to actually pay the 92% advertised. How is this even legal? I'll tell you how, we have such lax testing measures for these games. Software designers can get away with murder.
Fourthly. Pure Pots/Gold etc When they were first released, they were great. You talk to any players who play beyond hi techs. They were value and that's a fact. Then of course they got tweaked and tweaked and tweaked. Now you have Pure Gold. Which if it's on any sort of pots at all, miraculously takes £500-£2000 to pay the pot you're after. Shocking disgraceful games. Are they random? Bullshit.
Fifthly. £500 Martians v1.8 Why ON EARTH would you lower the reset pot value to £100 silver on £2 a go? Then lower the minimum beam me up to *2 stake from *5 stake? THEN lower the pay table values on £2? So it'll play much better right? NO. Unlike the 1.7s and earlier it never banks, all I will say is you may, just may see asteroid bonus slightly more often and then it adores values over pots. What a con for the operators who have bought this to see it sitting, after six months on £100.16 and £50.16 as NO ONE is tempted to play it. What dingbat thought that those changes were a good idea. I mean we all know you like to release a game and a first it's fair across the estate then gradually it gets patched and tweaked until it's impossible to win on.
Sixthly. What's with the high variance shite in general? Yes this is partly about Pure Gold, but Dracula? Another game with an obvious honeymoon period across the estate. Easy to get features to on the first couple of days then BAM! Feature = about as easy to get as pots on Pure Pots. There's a new Rocky game. Italian Stallion. Basically it's like Oz freespins but Wilds step down ala Wild Knights and there's a Wicked Witch, sorry, bell on reel 3. Round one being get one bell for out up to round three being three bells for out. There are also pots on reels 1,3 and 5. It's shite. You also get knockout bonus which will punch out a win for money back or stake*2. See those four jackpots minus the one....BOOF! BOOF! How exciting four tens for money back. COOOOOOL!!!!! WAY COOOOOLL BRO!!!!!! Sarcasm intended. Or promoter bonus. What is more exciting than getting three jacks for 50p.....? Why with a times two multiplier you now win a quid. UBER COOOOOL!!!! BLOWING MY MIND WITH THESE CRAZY BONII!!! My point is with these high variance games it's ROCK HARD to actually get ahead, but so easy to lose lose lose lose all the time. YES! I'm aware some % is lost to the pointless shitty wins which you have to cycle thereby increasing overall house edge BUT regardless, I'm calling this one. These games are crook.
SO there you have it. A company that once had a few decent games are now utter shithouses. I can't think of a single game I'd actually want to get involved in. Ah wait! Mushrooms......ahhhhh no......oh look someone has left high pots....obviously hasn't done gold and streak has it?
That's me done with any of their products. The business model is now to fleece anyone daft enough to play 'em. It's the same as most of the ultra spin games in bookies.
So if anyone has any useful input, such as the mobile number of whoever programmed Elvis or even an email address, feel free to let me know. Otherwise let the smug, odious, sarcastic, pious, superiority complex enriched comments begin!