It is of common knowledge, that
online slot machines, at times bringing large winnings, are a part of the whole business!
Every week such large companies as
Microgaming casinos, CryptoLogic, Real Time Gaming, Playtech and Boss Media hasten to brag about the next lucky guy - the owner of a multimillion jackpot. The most usual people from all parts of our planet become such winners.
But game costs money (notice: a lot of money!), especially if you prefer a usual slot machine, instead of progressive one. The amount of money you will spend for game depends actually on how its mechanism is arranged. So, how does this item work? We will consider the online-version of a slot machine with accumulative jackpot.
In similar technologies the computer graphics is especially important, but when it is connected with the happy chance, quantity solves everything here.
Today the company International Game Technology (IGT) is far ahead of its competitors in the market of progressive automatic machines. Their «Wheel Fortune» brings income of more than $1 billion per year! Nostalgia, chance to win one million and, certainly, the wheel bringing good luck, - not everyone can resist temptation to try this game! You only imagine: your chance to break a large sum is 1 to 46 million!
The largest companies which are engaged in this kind of a gaming on open spaces of a network really can be proud of the reached indicators. Microgaming, the organization, which since 1994 has been engaged in working out of the software for online casinos, has seriously become interested in
progressive slot machines and as result, once during the whole online gaming history has managed to offer the largest jackpot of $1,683,526!
By statistical data, in the beginning of 2004, more than 3500 players have won totally $117,000,000. It is necessary to tell, that the quality of games used by them was high: a shaking sound and the image - already occupies the whole screen.
Despite complexity to learn about jackpot in real time, in game everything is much easier.
Each software developer offers identical products of several casinos, including the subsequent technical support and prize tracing. Then, if in any of these a casinos jackpot is won, this information immediately arrives on a special server where data are processed and all the records about jackpots are stored. After that the game in all casinos is dumped and a pursuit begins again. Well, and the price which you pay.
The situation can be described in such a way: the casino does not lose anything on slot machines, but here you pay more.
What makes the game even more valuable? The progressing sum. Two concepts here come into force: the starting price of a prize and the final sum of a prize. When jackpot is drawn, it comes back to the initial price. For example, in game "Rags to Riches" from company CryptoLogic the starting price is equal to $100,000. The sum should be known before beginning of the game. Once, in this game jackpot was drawn twice in an hour! Figures quickly replacing each other on the slot machine counter mean the additional money taken in the form of percent from each rate which will increase the prize sum.
Certainly, founders of the games keep all the figures in secret, concerning "progressive" property of slot machines. But some simple analyses of data made on the basis of comparison of frequency of prizes of simple automatic machines and progressive ones, allow estimating percent of this progression - from 1 to 10 %. In some ads of real casinos the most desired for players percent is often specified - 10 %.
To calculate the prize sum is possible under the simple formula: it is formed from the current sum of jackpot, the rate and so valuable percent (1-10 %).
It is possible to make the following conclusion from this scheme: the automatic machine with 96 % return returns now only 91 %! So fans of slot machines should ask a question at first, what is more suitable to them: a series of small prizes or one, but large?
