Topic: Does pragmatic play bonus buy really worth it? - page 4. (Read 618 times)

It's frustrating when you don't get what you expected, especially burning through $1K without a big win. Ouch! Slot games are games of chance, and the outcomes are largely dependent on luck.

Bonus buys may be quicker, but statistically, they have the same payout rate as triggering the bonus naturally. They can be a good way to target the bonus round if you enjoy that aspect of the game, but they come with a premium cost.

Pragmatic Play is an enjoyable provider with great graphics, but bonus buys entail a high-risk strategy. While they may offer higher maximum wins, they might also have a lower probability of achieving those maximum wins.

If you're not enjoying a particular provider or game, there's no harm in trying out others. There are plenty of options available, and who knows, you might discover your new favorite game.

You are lucky if you get x2 from bonus buys, sometimes not just pragmatic but there are game that will not really give me something even if I buy like $40, last two games that I take advantage, it gave like like less than $10 not once but twice. But prior to that, it at least gave me x2 experience. But it just shows how slots are, very unpredictable results. So it could be not worth it, and just play the normal spins and see how it goes for you. Of course, with this feature, it's instant activation for gamblers. Maybe for some of us, we wanted to take this risk and see how our luck goes. So still a risk, instead of doing just the base spin that might take 100 or higher just to get the bonus rounds.

The method is a little different to get the low bet feature (as low as $0.1 you said). If you play in USD then usually the minimum bet value is $0.2... however if you change the currency to IDR (Indonesian Rupiah) it will allow users to bet the minimum amount possible up to IDR 200 or the equivalent of $0.013

To make your dream come true with the small betting amount you mean, the correct IDR - USD conversion value is IDR 1500 which will be equivalent to $0.1

I often play in shuffle for IDR currency because I am chasing a bigger multiplier (a stupid hope with a small bet value but the maximum possible profit). And this is enough to make me more comfortable playing pragmatic slots there.

If you want to see bonus buy is worth not.

You should make some test first for the section you are playing with normal spin, (Bonus Buy) cost = 100x Normal Spin. If more than 150 (Spin) you still not getting any bonus and want to play that slot.

Bonus buy, is one of the recommendation. Basically just for a cut your spent money in normal spin to avoid more losses due not getting any bonus, because we have two section (Hot & Cold).

I don't really play slots so I won't tell you much about my win/lose experience, but I can tell you that the bonus indeed is not worth it.
I know pragmatic games, I've seen a couple of them. They feel like any other typical fun game you can play on your phone with sparkling diamonds, puzzles and flashing lights. The graphics look decent, but it really looks like what devs of android games are producing in large numbers. Graphics look like like they're all done by the the same artist, but if you like their style, keep playing.
I usually lose at slots so you won't find me putting more money into this

But it is undeniable that because of the cheaper bet price and in some games the visualization is quite tempting, it makes a lot of gamblers or those who like slots are in pragmatic play than others.
I personally do that even though in terms of profit, pragmatic play also sometimes gives prizes from purchases that are not even too commensurate but because thinking about cheaper purchase options and good visualization is precisely what makes us complacent in the end and cannot escape pragmatic play which is the first choice for slot games.

Regardless of whether it's throwing money away or not in the end the pleasure of cheaper bet prices is the main choice again in this case that makes them popular.

“Bonus Buy” isn't a wise decision, but as long as you have luck, it will create more profit than just waiting for the “Scatter” to come or hoping for a good session outside of the “Bonus Buy”. Regarding the small "Max Win", it depends on the game you play, if you mean Gates of Olympus, it will only give you 5000x, but there are also games on this provider that have 15,000x like Zeus Vs Hades.


You're wrong if you say the minimum bet at the Pragmatic Play provider is $0.2, meaning you haven't explored all the games there, you can try Christmas Big Bass Bonanza, they have a minimum bet of $0.1 and several other games that I forgot the names of. Apart from that, since you play on Stake and if you're not from the US, you can choose your own preference to your local currency, for example for those of us who play from Indonesia, it will make the minimum bet to IDR 200 or the equivalent of $0.013 per spin.

Is that pragmatic really popular, it's the first time I read it here being talked about.

Ironic they call it Pragmatic. But it's always the case when users are not winning and then it's not worth the time. The casino is very effective if you enjoy the game just because of the graphics. Despite not winning, users seem to be frequently buying the bonus. Well, I guess this is what they always say about gambling as entertainment, even if you are not winning, you play because you are entertained.  

Moreover, you play Gate of Olympus with buy bonuses in the hope of high returns sometimes here are more disappointed often experienced but somehow pragmatic play is always a favorite game even though buy bonuses are always unprofitable.

It is clear that the max win is very small, only a few times winning with the rest of the max has not lost until now, but honestly Pragmatic has always been a favorite even though the buy bonus is high compared to others.

Agree with you.

Bonus purchases at Pragmatic Play are not as rewarding, I experienced where purchasing 3x bonuses was never profitable often did not return capital to $20 as a minimum bonus purchase.

I prefer regular spins that expect to get free spins this is also actually not easy it takes a lot of spins to get it, sometimes if you are lucky you can get it, if you are unlucky then it will be difficult to get.

The same question also applies as well to other game providers.

Being worth it or not can only be seen in the result. It's not about being the "Pragmatic Play" but users purchasing the buy feature should understand and realize that the purpose of buying it is to skip the manual betting and wait for long for the bonus feature to come.

P.S. I don't like to play PP games on Stake because of the high minimum bet amount. I usually play PP games on local online fiat casinos because of the user-friendly minimum bet amount. I just wonder what's the basis for why the minimum bet amount is different on other gambling sites on the same game.

Something is definitely happening with Pragmatic, in a good way for us who like to play this provider, I can play them in some casinos I couldn't before. I like Pragmatic, and I am more for normal spins but I have moments when I get into a "bonus buying state of mind"... it's something special, and it's hard to control it once I start with that.

We had similar threads before, and it's not about does Pragmatic bonus buys really worth it, the question is whether it's worth buying bonuses from any provider. My answer to this question is that bonus buying is worth it if someone wants more excitement and fun, but as for the actual earnings, it's just a matter of the moment and your luck factor at that moment. I guess we can say that the ultimate thing about playing slots is winning the bonus round and getting the chance for some higher payout, so buying the bonus round is like a shortcut... but that shortcut is just more expensive.

I have many bonus buys behind me... and my thread The worst slot provider ever? is about that (more or less). I had many x0 bonus payouts, with normal spins and bonus buys, from all providers. But in my case, Hacksaw, Wazdan, and NoLimit are leading the race by far with under x10 payouts after buying bonuses. I had 5-10 bonus buys in a row with those payouts... so you can imagine that I busted my bankroll more than once.

But I had some great hits as well... after all, we are talking about slots here, there are no guarantees, it's all about luck. We can play with normal spins or we can buy bonus rounds, but if it's not "our" moment we will probably end up on a loser side.

Which Pragmatic games you played mostly? I dont want to hear that you play Sweet Bonanza most of the time LOL.
Burning $1k in Pragmatic games but never hit more than 1000x is really a bad luck, I'm sure you should have at least hit it once without bonus buy as long as you choose the best game with the best hit frequency.
I would like to suggest you to play Pragmatic games with 5000x max win as what I have mentioned above and some others such as Gates of Olympus, Starlight Princess, Sugar Rush, etc because the chance to hit max win is better than those with bigger max win.
My biggest multiplier on Pragmatic games is 8947x (close enough to the max multiplier) and I hit it last month when I tried their new game namely Pompeii Megareels as you can read and check the replay here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63682923

I will agree with your assumption and opinion here that the purchase of bonus features in pragmatic really does not match the capital we have spent to buy it, but maybe I will not say that the results of purchasing bonus features are always bad because sometimes I have gotten a pretty good win like the equivalent of 5x - 10x the purchase price of the bonus, but yes it really is very rare and usually the return is barely half the cost of buying the bonus feature.

I am also one of the gamblers who likes slot games and indeed I often play on several games provided at pragmatic play but I don't like the name of the bonus purchase because I more often experience disappointment because the spin in the bonus is so bad that I often end the session too quickly because I run out of funds. Yes it's true that the outcome of buying bonuses is really down to luck that sometimes you can get max win if you're lucky but it's very difficult to be in that situation and also everyone never knows when they might get lucky.

I personally don't get the appeal. Those bonuses are going to be same that you get with fraction of that $20 if you are lucky in normal games. Paying for that bonus means accepting that you would have lost that $20 in normal game wiithout getting a bonus. I guess i am an optimist when i don't automatically think that.

So, yeah, bonus rounds prizes can be larger but when we willingly pay more of it, instead trusting our luck for getting it sooner in normal game. Cost for it is fixed too high for me, and  change to win / bet cost ratio isn't just worth the risk for me.

Also with normal games you can also win normal way so when bonus round hits in normal session it's literally just a bonus money to your winnings, hence the name bonus. So you get something worth for your initial bet once in a while.

And while it sometimes seems it will never hit, it has also hit multiple times with one lucky session for me. Sometimes they aren't bringing that much money, but then i just thank god i didn't skip the fun normal rounds and i didn't pay extra for it (unless you count playing normal games for paying extra. I don't).

Personally I play them a lot as the ex provider who used to give us what I would call a very often max win in their slots compared to the other providers,this is long gone now and it looks like often max wins are a thing of the past.

While for their bonus I play them a lot but I use IDR as currency and I can buy the bonus with just 1.25 dollars allowing me to try my luck a lot of times,yet not successfully winning anything big from quite some time now.

I think it still depends on the chance that you have because it's always going to be a problem if you always do it and expect a return. It's still about luck and you need to know that it's never going to be a straight forward thing and you could lose everything in one wrong move or an unlucky chance. Most of the bonuses are tempting but I believe you won't get the winning code or something there. It's always about chance.

What have you done OP?

I don’t like big bass games that’s why I never check one of this game. I never thought Pragmatic has 0.1$ bet. I’m not familiar with this currency but I rarely use other currency except USDT but now that you mention it, I just notice that Stake have Php currency too which I’m not aware. Thanks for pointing out the fiat currency.



Good for you but in my case I never meet luck on this provider ever since. I think I never hit multiplier greater than x1000 despite I already burn more than 1K on this provider ever since I start playing this provider. 

Pragmatic or any provider for that matter make bonus buys available as a method to earn more money. Really it doesn't improve profit chances and potentially makes it even worse on some cases. Really the issue with these things is that if they increased chances to profit people would use them all the time and of course providers don't want that. It's equal or a little worse RTP rather than normal spins. The issue is that with slots 99% of the time there's little to no transparency so you can't know what's true for sure. The game isn't provably fair and the chances for bonus buys aren't usually specified.

So if you want to play some slots with knowing everything about the odds, you can try to find probably fair slots games like the couple of ones in Stake originals.

Bonus buy on every slot is not the real way to play slot games for me because you are missing the fun of the excitement per spin hoping that you will hit the bonus round with just few spin. I never play pragmatic frequently because I can’t access this provider on all the casino I’m playing.

I just watch this games on streamers that keeps using bonus feature with high amount. They usually end up on big loss and big win usually just for breakeven but still they use it on highlights video as if they are really on profit side.