Afi4wins

Good...good...at least we can keep company.

Yeah...very quiet...way too quiet! And I'm becoming so bored that I wish I could just get away to a beautiful lake or seaside somewhere and enjoy the scenery, the sound of the waves, the serenity and the peace...

WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! Can anyone hear me, over? I know everywhere there's a lockdown, but is Askgamblers in shutdown? But of course not...it's just my mind in a knot... Yeah...yeah...one more very boring day for me...is it for you too?

Hey mate...you may have chosen your 3 providers...but you have NOT VOTED for them yet!!! Go click on them mate...at the top!

I have chosen my top 3 favourite providers...Playtech, PlaynGo and Thunderkick...not because they have fantastic new games but purely on their fantastic old games. PlaynGo comes into my list simply because of a few very good games that still have selectable playlines, beating Betsoft out of contention. Thunderkick wins my 3rd spot because of my still favourite few old games like Fruit Warp, Birds On A Wire and a few more, and all games, new and old, can still be played on just $0.10 per spin. NetEnt loses out simply because none of their games have selectable playlines, although I still like a few of the oldies. Microgaming goes out my window too for the same reasons. A few other providers do have some very good and interesting games but are all really hungry predators that can eat anyone up in one bite! Megaways games are simply BS games to me. Other games that promises a win of 20,000x or more are also nothing more than a big hyping lie to me...they talk big but actually gives nothing, unless they have already stolen a few truckloads of your cash! Nonetheless, in real truth, not even Playtech, PlaynGo or Thunderkick are up to my expectations nowadays, because of how all their games behavior have been drastically changed, stretched out and manipulated, all for the sake of bringing in more revenue for the casinos and software providers, and completely disregarding the fun and entertainment values for the players. All software providers simply suck nowadays...but my chosen 3 are the better ones to me!

Just stick to longer established Asian casinos for a start...but make sure that they have their PAGCOR license shown at the bottom of their homepage. Do not trust and do not play at casinos that do not show their licenses!

I'm hoping to see fresh new games from Pragmatic in this new decade, not more of cloned ones, so as to bring new excitement to Pragmatic games. Yeah, I took the plunge and started playing back in the tournaments this month, but as before, my interest is fast fading away. Needless to say, bring on fresh new games pleeeease!!!

Thanks for your positive thoughts my dear, and I too am determined to break this slotting habit for good one of these days. Sometimes when my mind flashed back to those days when I first saw those one-arm bandit and those penny coin-drop machines, I really wondered if things could have gone differently for me. In truth, I think it would not, simply because of my nature, tending to be so obsessed with certain matters that interest me a lot, and this interest could fade away in time but never really leave me. Photography and travelling are two other things that got me so obsessed before but both are still deep-rooted in my heart even now. What do change is the situation and circumstances over time, which then affects how I would tackle them one at a time. Honestly speaking, I simply love playing slots! But when these games are becoming hungry predators like nowadays, I just have to avoid them. If they could ever revert back to like being in those good old days, then I know that I would start playing them all over again! Some things change...some things don't...my way of life.

You're most welcome bro.

Aaaah...turning a dream you had recently into a reality is now your target for 2021...may need Divine intervention to get it, but it's not impossible. The way I see how slot games are behaving lately, the way ahead may indeed be fogged...so take cautions and stride one small step at a time...like I'm doing now, hehehe. And Good luck!

Hi there AZ112233...don't know if you can read English, but I certainly can't read your language, so I got it converted instead. Many casinos are known to use 'duplicated account/s' as an excuse for delaying or refusing payments. I was caught in one myself a few years ago, but using Askgamblers complaint system AGCCS saved my day and I got my winnings paid in the end, although about 2 months later. Better late than never though! Perhaps you should consider using AGCCS to solve your problems...but I'll let one of the admin here to lead you on.

Looking back in retrospect, the new decade of 2020 brought in new realities in this iGaming realm that we all play and live in. Slot games that we knew so well have become strangers to us...they are behaving very differently now than how we knew them before. Those occasional lovely short walks to the park have almost totally disappeared...the parks have been shifted much farther away from us now, at least twice as far away, from what I have seen and documented from my few regularly played favourite games. Within the parks itself, the usual attractions have been worn down dramatically, so much so that it is even becoming a chore just to enjoy oneself in the park itself! In short, the new decade has shown that going to any park (feature game) needs a longer stroll to get there, but once you're there, there can be no guarantees of getting a good time either. The Covid syndrome has penetrated the parks, so everyone and everything are kept distanced away, and so is the fun! By the end of 2020, I have cut my slotting casinos to just one casino, from about 50 in my list. All European casinos are now out...no more depositing money to play...intermittent play is only when no-deposit free spins are given, or no play at all...thanks partly to the Gambling Authorities who had recently made ewallets almost impossible to be used for gambling. The one and only Asian casino is still active for me in this 2nd year of the new decade, but I'm determined to see that 2021 would be the final year that any casino remains in my list. Breaking my 25-years slotting habit is proving to be very difficult indeed, but closing that final door is within my sight...the problem remains in making that one small step at a time to that door...but goddamnit...I will make it there!

Yes, and you are not the only one who may have gone through the very same mistake of believing in good paying games in fun mode, when the reality may be the exact opposite. We all learn from our mistakes and we wish other newbies would not fall prey to such disillusions of good paying games in fun mode. New regulations have improved this situation to a certain extent, but many players still believe that fun play is now as identical to real money play and that the results in fun mode can be acceptable for playing with real money...IT ISN'T AND NEVER CAN BE!!! Experienced players like us may well know this, but I really wonder how many of the newbies do know.

Hahahaha...what's the use of that software when it converts demo balance into virtually non-existing 'real' money?

On a rainy Sunday evening, I decided to play a few games in the fun mode, after losing whatever small real money balance I had in my casino account. Nowadays, I only play at my regular haunt, the one and only, a local Asian-based casino. I no longer play at any other non-Asian casino because both my Neteller and Skrill accounts have since become useless for making deposits for gambling play. Hence, it's "bye bye" European casinos from me...maybe for ever! At my local online casino, there are only 2 European provider games available, namely PlaynGo and Pragmatic Play. Pragmatic games have always been a no-no for me...I don't like them, they don't catch my interest...so it's either PlaynGo or Playtech games for me, always. Never mind about the several other Asian provider games...they don't attract me either. Anyway, what I want to bring forward in this topic here is about the great illusions that playing games in the fun mode can bring. European providers have more or less abided by the ruling that all games must play identically at all times, regardless of in fun mode or in real money mode, but for Asian casinos, they are still very laxed on this, simply because the few Asian Gambling Authorities have not, and perhaps would not, really regulate and implement such rulings. What this implies is that playing in the fun mode is still UNBELIEVABLY EASY TO WIN! Lets take one of Playtech better games...Heavenly Ruler. My last real money session on this game yesterday went drastically bad...it simply ate and ate my bets, without even giving any 2-scatter teases! In fun mode play, the first free spins feature game came within 30 spins, and the next came within 50 spins. This can NEVER HAPPEN in real money mode...believe me when I say this! What is even incredibly unbelievable, is the number of retriggers the second feature game gave...a total of 295 free spins after 15 retriggers, for an easy win of 1013x! In real money mode, anyone would be lucky to escape with the usual 30x win with 15 free spins! Up to 500x big wins can come of course, but very very rarely indeed, never mind a 1000x win! My top favourite games like Safari Heat, True Love, Panther Moon and Dolphin Reef, are more stabilised in this sense, meaning, they don't play or pay so vastly differently between the two modes of play. This should be the way for all the other games too, but it isn't so. My fun plays on a few PlaynGo games, namely Book Of Dead, Legacy Of Dead, Pimped, Holiday Season, and some others, behaved not much differently either. It was always much easier to win than when playing with real money! Anyhow, the point I'm trying to make here, is for everyone to be aware of such differences in play and pay, more so if playing at Asian-based casinos. Since we're all stuck at home nowadays, do play and gamble responsibly at all times, and be really aware of the pit traps in the games. Good luck and have fun!

Definitely NOT my wallet!!!

A 2000x Bonus Buy? Sounds like that Nolimit City game designer must have been in the infamous San Quentin State Prison and tried to bribe the guard with $2000 for a pack of cigarettes!!! Well, buy the bonus and see if it pays you a pack of cigarettes...I'd be keeping my foot way way away from this game!

Now, now, now...no need to get angry with me mate!

It seems that Ales200 is one more player who likes Multifruit 81, so can keep our Guru-san Valdes company. As for Supe It Up, I don't play it anymore since they removed selectable playlines and upped the minimum bet. That was a total letdown for me from Microgaming!

What? Exclusive casinos? Such casinos cannot survive in these market conditions mate, and they would need to reap in as much players cash from all over the world just to survive! If you mean exclusive welcome bonuses from casinos, then there might be a few coming in the pipeline, but I wouldn't know that for sure either. (I'm not a pipeline layer).

When others sleep, Mr Afi plays!!!

You're playing games that I don't even know exist...but congrats to you too bro!

Got a tinnie winnie bit of luck, thankfully, so here I am in this Mega Win thread again, after been MIA for so so long, hehehe. Nothing big of course but still 500x winners.

Problem resolved but avoid Paddy's Cash Card still, right mate?

Count me in again...I want to win...for sure! And I had signed up using AG's link way back in January 2018.