Slot Bonus buys, are they a bargain or rip off?

[Flatzem]

Slot Bonus buys, are they a bargain or rip off?

as many of you know I play many slot tourneys in the socialtournaments. Some of these tourneys involve bonus buys and that means 10 bonus buys per entry.
This can be a time consuming venture however I have recently finally gotten around to using the convenience of the autoclickers, since I don't have a multilocation autoclicker for the operating system that I am using I have had to use two autoclickers for those times that multiple locations are required such as in the case of tourneys with bonus buys, one location clicks on the bonus buy and then other location is to click on the okay location. Autoclickers are also good for slots with respin features that would require a player to keep clicking on the respin button which can be involve several minutes in some cases! e.g. Drago Jewels of Fortune, Chilli Heat & Chilli Heat Megaways, and all those tourneys involving the boost button.

But anyways the point of this post is about are these bonus buys worth if you were to do them in real money. I can tell you on many occasions a $100 bonus buy will result in less than 10$ return. In one recent case while playing the gates of valhalla tourney, which happens to be the current monthly tourney, the entire return for a $100 bonus buy was just $0.50 that's right just 0.5% return !

The vast majority of the time the $100 bonus buys will return less than 100$, sometimes a bonus buy can cost $80 still getting over the 100% takes some good wins.

So what is everyone's thoughts on bonus buys are they worth it or not because after playing hundreds of tourneys and many of them involving bonus buys I would say they aren't worth it especially if you were to get a few of those sub 10% returns. You will be regret it and might end up chasing with more bonus buys to get back your losses.

Now some might say that bonus buys can be good if you don't want to sit and play hundreds of spins just to see a feature, and sometimes a slot can go 1000 or 2000 spins without a feature. So for those players a bonus buy could be a good thing but I would suggest perhaps a casino could implement a limit of 1 or several bonus buys per 24 hour period and this would limit the possible damage a bonus buying frenzy could do. Many players play a slot to get a feature and if a feature doesn't happen in the first couple hundred spins it could mean a player is sitting there spinning the reels for thousands of spins.

[Afi4wins]

Why do game providers keep coming up with new and various ways to play their slot games? Is it because they want to keep their customers happy and keep playing their games? Or is it all just a clever marketing strategic to reap in as much players money as quickly as possible?

The answer? To reap in players money as quickly as possible! If you're one of those who don't think this is the correct answer, then oh boy, all I can say is that you are one NAIVE player!

Bonus Buys are the quickest way to lose money...from 100x to over 2000x at a time. Instead of losing $1 per spin, Bonus Buys make you lose up to $60 with each buy. Rich players don't care if they lose $1200 or more per $2000 Bonus Buy, cos they don't know how to value money, and they just wanna have fun! In time, they will learn their painful lessons!

[StallCation]

Yeah, there are so many things that make me want bonus buys abolished altogether. There's the human tradegy factor first and foremost. I reckon a lot of people have gone broke because of gambling in general, and bonus buys in particular.

I do allow myself a couple of bonus buys on eg. Extra Chilli once in a while, when I'm up, but I wouldn't be crying too hard, if they weren't available. After all, I still have the chance to land the exact same feature just playing the slot normally. But a lot of providers have come up with the concept of the "super bonus", with is practically only obtainable, if you buy the feature.

I think it started out with those enhanced 150x buys on certain Blueprint slots as well as Kalamba introducing the super bonus buy on eg. Machina. The idea was quickly taken up by No Limit City, and now it's spiralling out like a goddamn virus to infect almost every new slot release. When No Limit City came up with the 750x buy on Deadwood, I knew this was just the beginning.

Once you get people to accept 'a feature can cost 750x', there are no boundaries anymore. 3000x for a Tombstone RIP super feature is the limit right now, But for how long?

On a personal note, bonus buys have ruined slot streaming for me - which is maybe a good thing in the long run - as practically every streamer I know of, is just spam buying expensive bonuses these days. Again and again and again, fast clicking through the features, so you can't perceive what's actually going on. Completely unrelatable for me as a small punter - and tedious too, I might add.

Even worse, a lot of newer slot releases are insanely hard to bonus - or at least it's painfully hard to land one of the "enhanced" features, that has a decent chance to pay something.

Hmmmm, but maybe it's not BTG's, Kalamba's, No Limit City's, ELK's, Yggdrasil's, Relax Gaming's or [insert slot provider]'s fault. They are just handing us the tools of personal financial destruction. We are pulling the trigger.

[cocopop3011]

Well being from the UK it's hard for me to comment because I have never actually used this feature. However, it would not be for me (now).  I think it can be a very dangerous tool and I think streamers make it more lucrative than it is. 

However, if you were to ask me this question back in my days of real gambling I'm not sure if they would have been more tempting to me back then when my budget was much bigger.