Slots machines in online casinos
The situation in online casinos is changing constantly and to watch what is happening there is very interesting. Nowadays there is a great choice of games that online gambling venues offer to their customers, but they are trending more and more towards slot machines. This tendency is understandable, slots are fast growing in popularity and as you know demand determines supply. It is doubtful whether online gambling providers release 4 or 5 new slots every month if players are disinterested in this kind of casino games. If you look at statistical data provided by several internet casinos you will see that slot machines are much more popular than any other online game.
The modern gambling society gives preference to slots machine, video poker and games with progressive jackpots. And among top thirty games worldwide the first 25 – 28 are slots. Of course, sometimes there are some exceptions. For example, in Britain among top ten most popular games there is Three Card Poker and in Germany French Roulette is on the 4th place.
Today you can see news about new casinos everywhere. Most of the casinos are powered by established online gambling software companies such as Microgaming, Playtech, RTG or Rival. But if you look closely you will see that every casino positions itself. I guess I won’t make a mistake if I say that the founders of such casinos as All Slots, Jackpot City, Slots Club, VIP Slots, Super Slots, Vegas Slot, Sloto’Cash, and some others position themselves first and foremost not as ordinary casino but as slot rooms. Actually players get the thing they want.
Among the top slots there are some extremely popular machines that occupy first places almost in all casinos. Some of top slots are Mega Moolah, Thunderstruck, Avalon. And I think it is no mere chance. While playing slots players are getting experience and starting to give preference to those machines which pay out more. They are the slots with high payback percentage. Thus, Mega Moolah with its enormous jackpot has 94%-95% payback percentage! This is almost unbelievable for an online slot with such a jackpot.
But I think it’s enough to speak about slot leaders and players’ preference. Let’s examine another question where slot designers draw so much imagination to release 4 or 5 new slots games every month. They could just make the same slot with different pictures. But sooner or later players could realize that it was the same slot.
All slot developers solve this problem in their own way. For example, Microgaming invents new slot conceptions but do not forget to produce old-time machines. One of the company’s innovations is My Slot, the slot in which players can change graphics and music themselves.
Another original innovation is Burning Desire Slot that was launched specially for St. Valentine’s Day. The slot hasn’t got any paylines at all. Without a doubt such unusual slot machines draw players’ attention at first but later players always return to their favorite machines.
I think such slots aren’t a big success because the ordinary player doesn’t want to make efforts to create a great slot and nobody wants to play a slot with ugly graphics. When it comes to Burning Desire Video Slot it seems that it is a unique advantage not to have paylines but the payouts in the game are rarer and more moderate and it’s unclear why it has a fixed bet of 25 coins. An ordinary player wants maximum entertainment immediately.
Other software companies have their own tricks to attract players. They don’t make sophisticated machines they like to use well-known comics or movie characters to draw gamblers. For example, Cryptolgic launched such slots as Hulk, Spiderman, Blade and others. Really and truly, why reinvent the wheel if people are eager to play games with well-known characters!
And I’d like to say some words about one more gambling provider – Rival. The flagship of the software is Sloto’Cash Casino. There are usual slots machines in the casino, but Sloto’Cash is proud of the slots where the winning depends on player’s reaction and skills. During the bonus round a player must make decisions the result of which depends on the player’s dexterity and is not random as in ordinary machines. The provider’s interest is also very understandable. If the winning depends on player’s skill to increase payouts players should practice more and it means they will play these slots more and more.
Overall, there is one undoubtful thing the slots popularity is growing day after day. On the other hand there is a question if it is good or bad to play machines where the games results are random unlike such games as blackjack and slots are gradually moving away from traditional casino games.
