Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
Originally Posted by DGenBen View Post
Originally Posted by smurgerburger View Post

I assumed a tilt is actually a physical disruption in the manner of pinball machines.

But regardless unless it's actually misprogrammed in such a way that hitting the top progressive necessarily triggers a bug (as in the case of the Stations VP someone posted about), it would be a remarkable coincidence if just randomly glitched then.

But actually it seems likely it was the same kind of problem as at Stations and nobody knew about it because the top progressive so rarely hits.
Agreed. Plus this seems to happen frequently enough that they should design these games better with a fail safe that if the game fails it does not fail into appearing that the top progressive is hit.

I’m no engineer but this should not be too difficult to do.

If courts got more aggressive on making them pay these out, that would give a stronger incentive to make them design these games so that if it is a legitimate failure they do not appear to be giving the top win.

This does not seem to be a high priority for game manufacturers now & it really should be.
They could also add in little glitches to prevent these large payouts but I guess that wouldn't be so great given how it would impact their brand.
Yeah I doubt they would do it on purpose, although interesting thought.

These big progressives get hit all the time, you see them constantly reseting at the casinos & if you follow game manufacturers & casinos on twitter they announce where it was hit & sometimes even pictures of the winners.

They don’t care if they have to pay them legitimately because the returns on these machines is bad & these types of progressives usually have odds of hitting in the millions, not to mention these are usually paid in 20 year installments, so every time they pay one out its already been paid for many times over.