The Playboy multiplayer slot of Microgaming, as a release of October 2014 introduced it

This article was first published in October 2014, when a release that this page keeps under the name of Platinum Play Casino (an operator of 2004 still among those we work with) announced a "multi-player" version of the Playboy video slot of Microgaming, in the lobby since late 2013, with "great new bonuses" and "a total pay-out of $21,000". We keep the release as a record of how a licensed game was sold twice, first alone and then in company.

What the casino announced

The single-player Playboy slot, the release said, had been "one of the biggest hits in the world of online slots" since its arrival, and the multiplayer feature promised "a whole new level of entertainment and bonuses", a sentence that said nothing about how the feature worked or what it cost.

In the multiplayer slots of Microgaming several players spun the same game in the same "room" and shared certain bonuses. That part the casino left to the imagination, as the releases of that period did with the mechanics.

The $21,000 of the headline was presented as the total of the new bonuses (a pool, presumably) and not as a prize for anyone in particular, so that a player could not know, from the text, what share of it a winning session would bring. A line at the end warned that the promotion was "not available to Canadian players", without saying why. The casino, in short, announced a sum and withheld the rules.

The game, as the release described it and as it was

The release counted five reels, "20 fixed paylines", wilds, scatters, a free spins feature, "low volatility" (small and frequent wins rather than rare and large ones) and a payout "of 96 to 97 per cent". The figure means a return of ninety-six dollars per hundred bet, on average and in the long run, reported as the release gave it (unchecked here, worth checking yourself).

The game as the players of 2013 knew it, however, did not pay on twenty lines but on 243 "ways to win" (matching symbols on adjacent reels, regardless of lines), and its feature was the Playboy Club, where four hostesses each offered a free spins mode.

Kimi, Sofia, Ashley and Jillian (three of whom appear in the pictures on this page) gave from ten spins with a multiplier to twenty-five with extra wilds. Whether the twenty lines belonged to the multiplayer version or to a careless copywriter, the release did not say; a player who read it and then opened the game found a different machine from the one described, which is the best reason to read the paytable before the brochure.

The casino's words

A representative of the casino, given only by the initials H.S., declared that "our gorgeous Playboy ladies will undoubtedly seduce our players as they flicker on and off the reels" and provide "luscious bonuses" within the new function, and that the casino was "really excited" and could not wait to see its players try it. The adjectives belong to the record; the odds were not among them.

The initials are those of Harry von Schlussel, who signs the releases of Crazy Vegas in this archive, and the welcome offer below is the one that Crazy Vegas advertised in the same months, so that the release may have been written for that house and renamed when the images were made to link to Platinum Play. We report it as this page kept it, since the text is the same under either name.

The welcome offer of the time, and its arithmetic

New players were offered a deposit bonus of $500 over their first three deposits (the figures were also quoted in euro and pounds): 100 per cent up to $150 on the first, 200 per cent up to $100 on the second and 50 per cent up to $250 on the third. The "wagering" (the volume of bets required before a withdrawal) was not in the text, and neither were the games that counted towards it, nor the time allowed.

A player who wanted the whole $500 had to deposit $150, then $50 (twice which is $100) and then $500 (half of which is $250), that is $700 of his or her own money for $500 of credits, and the second tier, the most generous in percentage, was the smallest in money! The support was described as a live chat "within seconds", in several languages, untested then and unvouched for now.

What became of it

Platinum Play still operates, and the images on this page link to it (affiliate links, as the box above says), but the multiplayer promotion and the package of 2014 no longer exist in that form; what the casino offers today is in our Platinum Play review, written after trying it in demo mode, and its own terms prevail over anything printed here.

Microgaming's games passed to Games Global between 2021 and 2022 (our article on Microgaming becoming Apricot tells the story), and a licensed title lives as long as its licence, so we have not checked whether the Playboy slot survives. The games we have played in demo are in the slot hub.

If you want to compare the offers of now, the world list of no deposit bonuses is the page, and the "free spins" of today are on the free spins page. The other multiplayer slot of that autumn, The Argyle Open at Crazy Vegas, and the Gold Factory freeroll of January 2015 are kept in the news archive, where you can read the whole series.

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