Chad C.
An Honest Review from a Loyal Customer
I’m going to make the most honest review I can. I’ll start with this - I really do love Hacksaw slots. the volatility is basically extreme for all games, which makes them exciting to play. Yea, most bonuses are duds. But when they hit, THEY HIT! I’ve had two max wins and numerous 10000x+ hits off of very few base game spins into a bonus. I think most folks just can’t handle the in between. Here is my one and only complaint. And this is a legitimate one. The slots are not random. Especially when it comes to the bonus hunt feature spins. Sometimes they bonus almost instantly. Other times, the machine is very very very obviously and blatantly turned off. If someone proved to me that the machines were truly random, I would give up on life. When the machines go into what I call “collect mode” you can spin 1000 times with 10x the chance to hit a bonus and it will never come. If it does come, the bonus is always bunk. Point being - the machines are not random. To me, this is extremely dishonest. The unsuspecting player (which I was for quite a while) could lose everything trusting that the feature was working the way it was advertised. I can’t imagine this sort of practice is legal, and if it is then it needs to be stated in the fine print at the very least. There needs to be transparency with this. If Hacksaw was transparent the players would be able to protect themselves. Instead, us players are left to think it’s just negative variance. It’s just flat out wrong to do this and I suspect greed has everything to do with it. From a rational standpoint, I’ve always suspected the machine was behind and just needed to tighten up on the RTP. I challenge Hacksaw to comment on this post and explain why the machines behave in such a way. And if your explanation is that it’s just bad luck, then I challenge you to prove to me that’s the case with solid data. I’ll be waiting. - A Loyal Customer EDIT: I have yet to hear anything from Hacksaw (Surprise suprise) - but I did want to share something I found while researching why and how this could happen. There is an RTP variant called “Compensated RTP”. When the machine is behind, it purposely slows down until the RTP is caught up. This is almost certainly how the slots are able to do what they do. This completely throws out any notion of any slot that uses this variant to be truly random. Shameless in my opinion. But at least there’s an explanation.