ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
I always thought that online slots randomly predetermined on a spin that you were going to win (say) £50, and so threw up the combination of reels (or bonus game) that would give rise to that outcome.
Are people saying that this makes them fixed? Because that sounds like a naive interpretation of how this shit works, unless I have it incorrect.
There are lots of different models that random games work on, some more opaque than others.
The problem with Jammin' Jars is that some of the win animations, tumbles, cascades, multipliers, jam jar movements etc are incredibly long-winded and appear to be very complex. This is not helped by the fact that the rules state that the movement of the symbols within the grid is random.
So when it was discovered that entire sequences (that can go on for several minutes) were entirely pre-determined, some folks got cross. This also leads to the problem of creating false expectations on the player's part, as it looks like certain things should be possible if 'random luck' is on their side, but in reality they can never happen.
By way of comparison, the slot that I use for the comparison piece in the video above, has five RNG calls for every single spin of the reels, one call for each reel, which returns a random stop position for each of the reels. As such, every single possible combination that the player can see as being available, is a possibility.