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It has always been a big baffling question to me ever since Megaways games started appearing at casinos...why are so many players attracted to such games? Bonanza, by Big Time Gaming, was probably the biggest promoter for Megaways games. Almost everybody who played it soon became addicted to it. Some even began hearing the Bonanza tune playing endlessly in their heads, day in and day out, hahaha. Not me of course. The first thing that I had looked into back then was its paytable...and I was literally shocked by the rock bottom win values of all the symbols! Wilds don't pay, Scatters don't pay, and even the top symbols would pay so blardy damn low, making me wonder how the heck such a game would ever attract players to play it. But as you all know, how wrong my thinking was, or turned out to be! Players literally flocked to play the game, for many hours a day, for many days and nights, and I just couldn't believe it! Many said it was because the game offers a thrilling thousands and thousands ways to win...117649 ways to be exact...so in other words, getting a win in the game would be SO EASY! However, they don't realised that getting the top symbol 5-of-a-kind win would not even pay 5x the bet amount! I could get anything from a 200x up to 600x win from a good 5-reels 3-rows game, so what the heck is 5x?! In one of my trial play sessions, Bonanza when over 1600 spins without even giving me a free spins feature game. Again, I was shocked! My best Playtech games hardly ever go more than 1200 spins before triggering a feature game, but on Bonanza, some players had even cited going over 2000 spins just to get a low-paying feature game! I have never liked any Megaways games and I will not play any of them either, except if I needed to write a game review on it. Nowadays, more variants have become available, in the form of X-Ways, All-Ways, Power-Ways, and what-have yous, but I will never be interested. If you're a fanatic of such games, what made you stick to it, or become addicted to it? Has anything changed your mind now, or are you STILL blasting away on the same games?

I mean I think I already know the general consensus from other topics in the forum but, what are your views on Megaways at the moment? Loving or hating? The OH is really getting into them, he showed me a screenshot earlier which I've just pinched off his phone to show you here. Now I don't know if it's just my old age showing but I'm just not feeling them. I've never been a huge fan of games with 2-3-4-3-2 reels (as an example) and games like that. Over the years there have been some I've enjoyed I'm not going to lie but I'm just getting boring and want to stick to the traditional 5x3 with a few exceptions. Anyway, tell me your thoughts or screenshots if you have any. This is at Playzee Casino by the way.