How can you even compare a vegas slot with a uk machine since when can you brute force a vegas slot when you cannot throw wins away... ?
Of course they are comparable - they are both fruit machines, and both advertise a supposedly 'minimum' payout percentage. In the case of the random vegas type slot which has a properly externally regulated, authenticated core code and RNG, I have reasonable confidence that the advertised payout% is achieved over a reasonable number of games. 90% @ $100,000 played will give $90,000 return or something very close to it, no complaints there. (And I might add, plenty of these random type slots will also allow wins to be 'thrown away' as you put it, i.e. gambled).
Conversely, what we appear to have here is a high stake, high JP UK fruit machine which no doubt is advertised with a minimum payout of 80% (and is actually set at 90% as emulated), yet which appears to allow £6000 to be played with only a
3% return? That's outrageous and a blatent con in mine, and any sensible person's book. Sorry, but only those with a vested interest one way or another would try to argue otherwise, thus making themselves look pretty foolish in the process.
If a machine is advertised as having a
minimum payout of 80% with no caveats like 'depending on how played' it should do precisely that, end of story. Sure, good playing strategies can be rewarded and bad ones punished, but only up to a point. If a machine is consistently played 'badly' to the extent that it has become many thousands of pounds below minimum payout, the compensator element of the code must start to intervene. If things are allowed to deteriorate to such an extent that the machine can never recover (as looks to be true in this case), it clearly is not doing what is claimed by the minimum payout notice. Late JPM IMPACTs just rolled over after a while to maintain their %, for instance.
Anyway, this machine is just begging to be forced... look at the win table for heaven's sake: £30, £35, £40, £50, £60, £500! At 50p per play, £30 isn't going to get you very far; your 'average joe' who's just spunked £200 in about 20 minutes is going to look at that sticker and think 'this isn't a random machine, it has to give at least 80%, so I'm 'due' a big win or JP if I keep refusing these poxy £8 boards', but he will evidently be doing so on a completely false premise.
So glad I haven't played fruit machines for years and years... if I still did, I wouldn't touch a non random machine with a barge pole.