A close second is being shown the odds for every little thing during the live broadcasts.
Apple TV is the worst offender. Their coverage of Major League Baseball was already bad, but they found a way to make it even worse by constantly showing the odds of this, that, or the other.
A 90% RTP will typically (typically - lots of exceptions and caveats) be quite volatile - offering big wins but long losing streaks. Exactly the kinds of game behavior designed to extract long playing times and really peak the dopamine response.
The casino will be accounting/forecasting a 5% take across stakes made as it's super complicated with jackpot contributions/payouts and stuff.
These machines are there to be always accessible and to train the human in just the right way so as to get you addicted.
I don't know what slots you play but the ones I've been at you can play the game at any speed you want. A single tap of the button places the bet and plays the animations, etc. A double tap does that and skips the animations, immediately showing your winnings. If that isn't enough there is usually an option to increase your bet by a multiplier or to make multiple plays on one "spin". The play speed is effectively up to that player.
I used to work with a guy who had a long stint at IGT. He said the most popular game he ever "made" was to take his previously most popular game and just have one set of controls play 4 of the same game all at the same time on one screen.
I don't play slots, but I did manage an online casino for 3 years. Auto-spins allow users to play without "interaction" but, at least for my players, the animations and chirps were all part of the "fun".
All go towards the same thing - dopamine addiction as an activity.
I think I just wanted to say that the perception of a 90% "success rate" v's all or nothing with sports betting felt like a troublesome comparison, for me at least. These games arent safer or fairer at all - they are both doing the same thing - in different doses to different audiences.
Many of my slots players didn't consider what they did "gambling" at all.
The 3% have either won a decent amount early and haven't averaged out yet, or they're a sharp who is carefully betting skillfully on winning bets. I don't think those people actually win too much since the platforms are always hunting to ban them. The missing money of 97% pretty much overwhelmingly ends up in the house's hands.
Slot machines typically keep 3% and returns the rest to the player. They do many things to keep people play to empty their deposit. Bonuses, wins on every spin (but amount is usually less than stake). Use internal coins to hide actual value etc
> Some people are sick and cant control themselves.
If people being sick and not being to control themselves required an intervention phone number in general, we'd run out of 10-digit numbers faster than Elon lasted in the government :)
> It provides entertainment, same thing tickets to the event provide. A lot cheaper than seeing the game in person too.
This 100% is the reason most if not all of my friends put money on the games. Not sure why this is so hard for A LOT of people to understand, putting money on the games gives many people I know more of a rush than sky diving
This is the worst thing about sports betting.
A close second is being shown the odds for every little thing during the live broadcasts.
Apple TV is the worst offender. Their coverage of Major League Baseball was already bad, but they found a way to make it even worse by constantly showing the odds of this, that, or the other.