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Re:Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine by jeltz on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:47AM (#27843653)
It is not even gambling. Slot machines are regulated and not allowed to be rigged.
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Re:Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine by baseballdork on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:22AM (#27843899)
> not allowed to be rigged

I guess I don't understand what "rigged" means in this context. I thought slot machines could essentially be "tuned" for payout by the owner (e.g. pay out 0.96x of what's put in on average), much like these toy machines.

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Re:Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine by jeltz on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:00AM (#27844155)
Rigged in my mind means that the game cares about previous wins and losses. Slot machines do not, the 0.96 us just the statistical average and not something the game tries to enforce.
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Re:Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine by pfundstein on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:44PM (#27851892)
Do you work on slot machine software? How do you know they don't increase the odds of an early win to entice the user to keep feeding it?
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