Am I the Only One Wondering Why @thegame and @steembets Are Not Honest With Payouts for Their Steem Distribution Game - Vote for your share?
I kept upvoting their posts for the past week but only got 1 payout and it was a game 6 days ago..
This is the game 6 days ago. The payout screenshot above shows 3 days back.
https://steemit.com/steembets/@thegame/2zggck-up-or-down-steem-distribution-game-vote-for-your-share
I've played more than 20 times. Never won once. The odds of this are astronomical. The poster is deliberately vague about what criteria are winning and rarely posts 'winner' and 'loser'. After I complained he pretended to 'look into it.' In reality nothing has ever been done. I've seen contests with almost 80 votes on either side paid out to only 20 winners. Others involved in these betting posts defend him.
I could go on and on...
Sadly I suspect there are multiple accounts 'in' on this. I'll be looking into having a forensic analysis of this entire shambles.
Thanks for the insights. We need more vigilance from this point onward. Their reputation also their purse increases the minute we took the bait.
Agreed. I'll shortly be documenting my story so far regarding this unfair betting nonsense. I'm also concerned about the connection between thegame and virtualgrowth. The latter has a decent reputation in the community but seems unwilling to look into my assertions about rigged payouts. Initially he said he'd check it out.... I know he was involved in setting up this specific betting platform (he told me so himself in chat) but others have claimed he runs the 'thegame' account. At present he has to have the benefit of the doubt but his recent absolute dismissal of my concerns leaves me concerned.
Thank you @nikflossus, @unhorsepower777, and others for expressing your concerns. There have been hundreds of payouts. Initial concerns by nikflossus and others were noticed to only vote 1%. Minimum is 50%. Apologize that this was not clearly stated. Will look over the others and make a post for a solution to compensate voters and work on going forward with an understanding and of course fairness.
thanks for the clarification @thegame
You are most welcome @unhorsepower777
This is a flat out lie. i voted at 100% until the very last few games when i realised you were never going to pay. I've bet 25 times with you and never won once.
Waiting to see how this unfolds, for now I will remove support for those accounts.
Of course @tuck-fheman. Will review recent games and past players and voting percentages as well as a reasonable solution for everyone involved.
I have two times won but I do not play these games again only @steemsports makes sense to me atm.
@unhorsepower777, you won five times. :)
thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
Thanks for the heads up! It's easy to not care since it doesn't cost us to play but we should be careful not to reward people who are deceptive.
I've been playing and also didn't seem like I receive a payment as often as I'd expect .. but I don't really know, wasn't paying real close attention to how often I've played and what the results were.
I agree tho that they are vague, which is suspicious. And when nikflossus said his concerns, their response was "hundreds of payments have been made!", which is weird since that doesn't rule out that something is wrong, 100s being made doesn't mean that there weren't other payments that were SUPPOSED to be made.
Thanks for the heads up!