Jason Pawloski wrote:
> So now we have a game where 10 play pays back less than 3 play. Is
> there anything wrong with that? No, there's not. But if someone
> is playing 100 credits, it seems like bad form to gyp them slightly
> compared to someone who is only playing 30 credits. So IGT must
> have taken an improbable hand or hands, and slightly increased the
> multiplier to prevent the descending payback.
Very fine discussion up to this point ... but, honestly, when was the last time you saw anyone on the casino side of things who was disturbed by a "slight" (or even "major") player gyp? ;)
The driving force between this mechanism in order to avoid a payback deterioration is that regulations in some jurisdictions stipulate that a player's expected return cannot be diminished solely as a consequence of an increase in wager on a given game.
Such regs also come into play with MultiStrike, where the mechanism used to preserve return as you increase number of levels in play is tweaking of Free Ride frequencies.
- H.
