At CasinoChan Canada, slot machine software meets international standards. But sometimes even in high-quality slots, there are bugs. Many players wonder if it is possible to find a bug in the slots and use it to make money.
We hope this article will give you a better understanding of how slot machine software works and what developers are doing to fix flaws. Do you know why companies release a new version of your favorite game after several years, even though it is not very different from the old version?
Aliens is one of the illustrative examples. This slot machine is very popular among players, it won the “Innovation 2014” award a few years ago. The game was delisted by NetEnt in 2017 for reprogramming. Perhaps some players found a gaffe with which to win more money in Aliens, and Netent had to remove the slot machine from its portfolio.
As you have already guessed, slot machine retargeting is conducted to fix a bug or “patch holes”. But this is one of the reasons.
As for the Aliens slot machine, the new version was designed to fix the bug.
Sometimes the developer has to apply new settings to online slots and prevent situations where players win money over a long period of time.
Several years ago a mistake was discovered in the Jack Hammer slot. A certain player earned about 100,000 euros in a few months. Then the slot was redesigned, and it began to “take” additional “above the norm” winnings of players. A short time later the next version, Jack Hammer 2, was released.
What was wrong with Jack Hammer? The developers noticed something strange: at bets of 25 and 250 euros per spin the slot machine Jack Hammer paid more than 100% RTP (return as a percentage of the player), despite the fact that the original RTP was programmed 97%. More than 2 million spins were made. During this period, there were days when the maximum loss was €25,000, managed to win about €100,000.
We are talking about minor lapses in the operation of slot machines, related mainly to the settings. Sometimes slot machines start giving bigger winnings for some bets than for others. Of course, this does not mean that of all other bets, it just takes all the money to return to its original RTP.
Let’s look at the problem from another angle. What if one of the online casinos notices a player who regularly wins on the same slot machine? What if the player discovers mistakes or uses them to make money? Publicizing such a fact could ruin an online casino’s reputation. In such a case, the online casino respecting itself has no right to refuse to pay, because the player has not violated the rules and conditions of the casino. The terms do not indicate that players are not allowed to win often. Of course, in this case, the online casino may ask the developer to share the costs, if something is wrong with this game.
In this situation, the software developer should instantly fix the bug in the settings of the online slot. But this is not as easy to do as it seems to us. The main difficulty is that by removing the game, the online casino will scare away regulars of the club. But the developer should release a corrected version of the online slot and try to shift the attention of gamblers to the new version.
