I have to say pre 2014 here in NZ online slots were considered dodgy people were very sceptical of the whole internet gambling. Fast forward to 2019 it’s super popular everyone’s playing now the bookie slots are empty and everyone’s gambling at home.
In 2015 a NZ player was on the 6 o’clock news the story was he deposited 50$ on jackpot city and won the mega moolah jackpot on a 25p stake. From that point on online gambling was In every gamblers home all playing on jackpot city even though they had payout problems poor customer service, basically bad customer experiences. However nobody cared they only cared about if this person can win so can I.
2016-2017 twitch and steamers becomes mainstream what better way to promote a casino than have a house player in there showing off epic wins giving the viewer the belief that they can win too. It’s the ultimate advertising strategy.
Prehaps even the streamer himself is unaware that his account is tweaked this would in fact give a more realistic believable celebration when they actually have these big wins.
I feel that the super wins will become less and less as time goes by, the casinos objective to convince players an epic win is possible is almost complete. The influence of social media has once again changed peoples opinions made them believers and created more problem gamblers than ever before.
The good thing is they can’t give streamers jackpot wins as the jackpots work as a collective and having a rigged win on one site would be biased to the others. However they can control the RTP on their own version of a slot and for this reason they are able to demonstrate the potentially life changing money they can offer.
