Hi
verusfidesDavid responding from here. Pardon for delayed response from me, its the first day back to office after a vacation, your case is the first and delicate one I am gonna be handling.
As I have figured out from your comments and from inquiries in office, the issue is that: you have deposited amount on our website and due to bug of the game you made a significant winning. The game bug was notified to us by the provider and it was quite simple, but as well quite damaging - the automatic cashback have allowed players to basically write in bar the amount of money they wished to win and after spin the winning was there. This was brutal and our internal investigation is on to determine the causes of the bug. Thankfully to our most honest and loyal players the bug was soon detected. Most of the players wrote us what was happening and we were able to act fast and find the solution. We have rewarded to everyone who was affected by the bug with bug bounty of 0.08 for the damage, because we take responsibility on what happened on website.
Sadly, some of the players took advantage on bug and got more and more until they could, but of course we are not able to issue the winnings that have been made due to bug abuse or any sort of unfair activity and we kindly ask our players to be understandable in this case.
Your case, however, is extremely delicate as the winning on Adrenalin came because of the bug and you were able to claim 2.1 BTC, but you kept on playing and made a huge bet with bug won money on Plinko, were you got the big win of 19.17 BTC. We decided to seize the winnings because of the valid reason, of initial win coming from the bug, you were refunded your deposit and given a bug bounty (like all other players effected by bug) of 0.08 BTC.
We are sorry to hear about your poor experience, but I think at the end we did everything to end up on fair point, you were returned your money back and plus given additional bonus for damage and help in successfully spotting and solving the bug issue.
Screenshot 1: The Deposit was made and Playing the Adrenaline has started. Also, we see the bug effected game win of 2.1 BTC here. After bug wins the player has requested to withdraw the amount, but due to the already known to us bug issue, the withdrawals were suspended from the website.
Screenshot 2: Player Continues to play after denied withdrawal and starts playing on Bounce.
Screenshot 3: Player spins with bug money and as seen on the screenshot, wins Bounce Jackpot of 19.17BTC.
I would like to hear from BTC TALK community about the fairness of our decision. You all perfectly know that, I am always on a players side and I do my absolute best to be a watchdog for our community inside the office. But in this case, personally I think that company decision was fair.
Cheers,
David.
I understand completely 100% what you are saying, but no it is not fair. I am not those other players. Furthermore I did not abuse your game and try to withdraw a ridiculous amount of coins. I did not even know there was a bug in the first place. I played the game because of your guys' suggestion. Furthermore you have no proof whatsoever that the Plinko jackpot win came from the Adrenaline bug BTC or from the initial deposit BTC which accrued BTC outside of Adrenaline. I realize you guys may have lost BTC because of what has occurred and I do understand how hard it must be to take one loss after another, but how could you say this is right? You guys should not have released a game with such a huge bug in the first place.
On top of that I have read over your bug bounty rules. Bitcointalk.org readers please take this into consideration as well when they say they are being fair.
They have split the bounty into 3 prizes:
0.02 for Small Bug
0.08 for Medium Bug
0.2 for Large Bug
They awarded me the MEDIUM BUG. Somehow winning money for free (which was unknown to me at the time). Is somehow considered a Medium Bug? Look at what the problem has escalated to because of this Bug yet your support would only give me this amount? You claim that other players have withdrawn there earnings and you guys have took some damage. The bug in itself should award more than large because of the damage you guys could receive. Tell me what is fair about this part? Your players that had found the bug regardless of whether they reported it or stumbled upon it by accident should be allowed to keep those funds because this was faulted from the casino. Nobody came in and rigged your game. Your programmers messed up so punish them for it, why are you taking it out on the players, and then you punish other players like myself further for hitting a jackpot that had nothing in relevance with your bugged game? What would have happened if multiple people who experienced the same thing hit jackpots as well. Would you deny them all payment? How would you even justify such a notion. Seems like you are scapegoating the bug to deny payment to a player who fell upon a good amount of luck that night.
I had no knowledge this was even a bug prior to being notified and my funds denied. I thought I was playing the game right. Your rules simply state enter amount click bet to begin. Stop when you want to withdraw. How is this fair in any sense? I played the game the way it says to play. I had won and thought I would withdraw and be safe and not lose all my earnings because the house edge on the game is 2% compared to your other provably fair games which are rated at 1%.
If I were only to play Adrenaline all night and my BTC only came from that game alone that night before I jumped over to the Plinko game, then I would consider this to be a right decision, HOWEVER, that is not the case. I stayed on your casino that whole night. Anybody can see this from my transactions logs. I was on their website for 13 hours playing a plethora of games in between. Even after what had occurred I had still continued to play because I was so frustrated at what had happened.
Even now I have continued to play on your page. I have been loyal to this page even before they had the huge updates and additional game providers. I have lost a lot but I have ALWAYS came back here, because of how well you guys had treated your players. Please see this from any players perspective. Would you deny someone a gold medal from one event because there were technicalities in a different event? The jackpot was really such a holiday miracle for me. I am behind on phone bills, car payments, mortgage payments. It would mean everything in the world if you could please make my wishes come true. Thank you for taking your time to read hope to hear from you soon.