Trends in slot development

Author : Moto jager | Published On : 29 Mar 2024

Recently, I have noticed that a large number of players have begun to show interest in slots with high variance, as well as slot machines with a bonus game purchase function. Well, it’s no wonder. Who doesn’t want to get everything at once instead of exhausting long gaming sessions, which will result in only a slight increase in balance. This is especially evident after the emergence and popularization of such a developer as Big Time Gaming.

The idea of ??slots from the “megaways” series was immediately picked up by a large number of providers, Blueprint was especially successful in this, as, in fact, in the direction of “sales” of bonus games. Other developers, and even NetEnt, which specializes in low-variance slots, did not lag behind. created a slot machine with the potential to pay out up to 100,000 bets ( Dead or Alive 2 ).

In addition to high-variance slots, players have become more demanding of the gameplay of slot machines. They are no longer so interested in classic slots and want something special. The tops here can undoubtedly be called Relax, Yggdrasil and ELK Studios, which, although they rarely please players, the functionality of their creations is always unusual. Such manufacturers as: Nolimit City, Push Gaming are not far behind.

What's going on with the other most popular developers? The same NetEnt does not give in to its principles and continues to create slots in “its own spirit,” and, often, duplicating previously released slots, moreover, creating a clone, without an upgrade at all.

In my opinion, a developer like Endorphina is degrading in this direction. In addition to the fact that he, like NetEnt, copies previously released slot machines without making any upgrade, he decided to go even further and launched the “Dice” series. Indeed, why think about a new name, a new slot theme, new pictures, creating another clone, when you can simply replace the pictures with “gambling dice” and “create” a dozen or two more slots. Brilliant! You can present 2 nominations at once: “The most cunning developer of the year” and “The laziest developer of the year.”

So why do developers create so many slots?

And not always good ones? Just a year or two ago, there were several times fewer slots being released, and the point here is not that there were fewer developers themselves. In my opinion, the situation is as follows:

In order to attract new players to slots, some providers increase the return percentage for a short period of time after the release of the slot. This led to the fact that the activity of players in old slots decreased and many began to play mainly new ones, naively believing that it was in these slot machines that luck would smile on them. Accordingly, the provider’s task in this situation is to regularly introduce new products to the market in order to gain turnover. At the same time, sometimes, to the detriment of the quality of the product, stooping to the banal production of a clone (both their own slots and copying others).
The same Endorphina, for example, does this so that they are not simply forgotten about in the face of the emergence of a large number of new and very promising providers.
Perhaps, in this way, providers are trying to “ hit the jackpot ” in the end, allowing for an imminent market collapse in the current economic conditions.

Slot development trends boil down to the release of three types of slots

High variance (slots with the potential to win from 10,000 bets like). And I wouldn’t be surprised if a slot with a winning potential of up to 1 million bets appears soon. Undoubtedly, developers such as NetEnt will also survive, since less risky players who prefer a quiet game will not go away, although their number will noticeably decrease. But in my opinion, such developers as Endorphina will collapse.
EGT slot machines online with unusual visualizations and gameplay. Here I don’t see any clear leaders yet, although several providers show promise.
Slots with a bonus purchase function. Here a clear leader has emerged and this is Blueprint, but my personal opinion is that the products of this developer are not entirely of high quality, and I would call their slots very “crooked”, with rough mathematical solutions. Therefore, in my opinion, this niche is still free, and the developer who manages to create a high-quality product in this direction will undoubtedly have very, very great prospects!

And finally. In my opinion, if the market continues to develop along this path, we will soon see slot machine pools begin to fall. Since previously the concentration of slots was lower, and, accordingly, more players played one or another slot machine. And in the current conditions, players will be distributed in less concentration to one or another slot, and as a result, it will have a lower pool, which will lead to fewer winnings for an individual player and an increase in casino profits.