Tedlark wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 2:20 pm
Not that I have to rush to Eduardo's defense but I was under the impression that DaBurglar was speaking of ALL servers controlling video poker machines and not just those located in Atlantic City.
I cannot believe I have to continue to point this out.....I am not taking issue or drawing attention to SERVERS in general or VP played or based on servers, nor the security (or lack of it) accompanying their activity in general....I am talking SPECIFICALLY about AC video poker and AC's disconcerting Gaming Control Oversight (both the entity and it's practices & resources, etc.) The fact that the 3 CET properties in AC are on a server, and have shown particularly strange and horrific results since they converted to servers is central to my views and feelings about AC.
I have said repeatedly that I do not have any similar concerns about such places as Vegas or Reno, or even the Connecticut Native American Casinos.
But servers themselves DO allow a whole different level of control and ability for casinos to manage and administer their games, many of which could be used for nefarious purposes. The issue really is with PEOPLE, and in AC's case, it is not the server(s) itself at CET casinos but, obviously, the PEOPLE running and administering them (and of course, the top echelon decision makers and executives who decide on practice and policy....) Computer and system security, and the integrity of casinos as a whole, is only as good as the people running it, AND the people inspecting and overseeing THOSE people, etc.
The bottom line is the bottom line....what those of us who play in AC actually see for results clearly...CLEARLY indicate something is different, or "off" with the VP games, especially at the CET properties....you start with that, and then factor in all the related points concerning the Oversight (or lack of it), and AC's climate of economic difficulty and its history of shadiness and incompetence going back decades.....