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Microgaming is definitely known for developing pokies with some of the best and unique innovative features. One such pokie is Burning Desire which introduced the 'All Ways to Win' feature. In this feature, paylines are no longer considered as the determining factor of payouts. Instead, the payouts are awarded when matching symbols from left to right of adjacent reels are found. This means that even though the symbols are on different lines, payouts are still awarded as long as they appear on the screen, they are on adjacent reels and they are arranged as a left to right combination. Since Burning Desire is a pokie played with 5 reels and 3 symbol rows on the screen, the computed total number of ways you can win is 3 raise to 5. This is equal to 243 ways. Thus, winning combinations and payouts are sure to be given at more frequent times that in any other online pokie. However, even though this game gives out more payout when you do more spins, this does not mean that your average expected return is increased. It is a given that the house would always have the advantage in an online casino game. Thus, Microgaming modified some of the known parameters in the game to compensate for the advantage caused by the 'All Ways to Win' feature.
In usual online pokies, the total wagering amount is determined by the line bet and the number of enabled paylines. So if you placed a line bet of 10 coins in a 25-payline pokie and activated all the lines, then the total amount you placed as bet is 250 coins. In Burning Desire, the number of ways you can win is 243. If the above computation is to be used and you place a line bet of 10 coins, then you would have to place a total wagering amount of 2,430 coins for a single spin. This is definitely way too much. Thus, Microgaming stipulated that the maximum bet you can place is the line bet multiplied by 25. Although there are 243 total ways to win, the maximum total bet you can place is 250 coins, if your line bet is 10 coins.
Arctic Fortune and Hot Ink are two other online pokies where the concept of the above feature are adopted. However, the concept of 'All Ways to Win' is expanded such that there are four number of rows with 5 reels in the pokies. This results to a computed winning ways of 4 raised to 5 which totals to 1,024. The thematic concept for Arctic Fortune depicts a Viking atmosphere while a tatoo parlor environment is depicted in Hot Ink. Another online pokie which follows an expanded version of the discussed feature is Dolphin Coast. This pokie has five number of rows with 5 reels. From computations, the total number of ways you can win is 3,125. Unfortunately, this pokie did not reach the popularity that its predecessors did. The most popular pokie, in fact, remained to be the one which allows 243 ways to win like Burning Desire. More online pokies which allow this number of ways to win are developed. Some of the titles include: The Lord of the Rings, Reel Gems, Asian Beauty, Alaskan Fishing, Immortal Romance, Santa's Wild Ride, etc.
Tis the hardest season to be a pokie operator eking out a living on New Zealand; not only do they have to contend with MP Te Ururoa Flavell’s trust-destroying Gambling Harm Reduction Bill, but they now have suddenly found themselves looking at a ridiculous increase in operational costs courtesy of the government’s three-year gambling harm campaign, starting from next year.
Because of this announcement, SkyCity鈥攚ho had inked a deal with current Prime Minister John Key’s administration in helping them build an international convention centre in Auckland鈥攊s now considering increasing their number of pokie machines because of this sudden announcement from the government’s Ministry of Health.
Peter Dunne, the country’s associate health minister, had also alluded to as much in a recent press release detailing the government’s three-year plan in attempting to curb pockets of problem gambling in the country; when asked what if there is any relation to the three-year campaign and the government’s deal with SkyCity, he said, “This is quite a separate process from anything that will be happening with regards to SkyCity, but obviously factors relating to that, and any other forms of gaming - for instance if the lottery commission was to introduce new games or there were to be extensions in other sectors, all get factored in as best they can to this calculation.”
Dunne had also said that, in terms of setting how much the pokie operators in the country will be possibly levied in next years’ time, he said that they have based it upon the yearly average of people asking for help for gaming-related problems, which he sets at about three-thousand and five hundred a year. “What we look at in terms of determining the contribution that each sector makes is the contribution it makes to problems, so all of the figures will be considered as part of the consultation and then the decision will be made based on the level of presentations from each sector,” he said.
However, there is also a proposed takeaway from this whole plan: the government is also planning to cut the funding on problem gambling research from a yearly average of three million dollars a year to about a million by 2016; in a sense, they hope to rectify that number through the levies that they will be collecting from the pokie operators.
For the struggling pokies industry, this is as worse a news they can already get this week. Hopefully, the government may have to reconsider how futile their whole plan is. For more pokie news all around the world, please visit www.onlinepokiesaustralia.com.au.
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