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deskr | 1 year ago
I feel like there are details missing. What happened to those who "really" won the jackpot according to the random number generator? What did the UI show then? Did everyone who won the smaller jackpot actually win the big jackpot? What are the technical details of the glitch?
Based on this incomplete information I'd say a total audit of the system should be carried out.
speerer|1 year ago
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/498
"The Defendant went on to plead that the game was subject to a mapping error affecting the animations so the images which the Claimant saw when playing the game were in error, but asserted that the error did not affect the RNGS outcome. The Defendant accepted that during her play the Claimant’s screen showed that she had won a Jackpot because three Jackpot symbols appeared on the slot reels. An animation was then presented to the Claimant with the Jackpot wheel. The Defendant asserted that, as a result of the mapping error, when the wheel spun the pointer came to rest on the Monster Jackpot segment but should instead have pointed to a Daily Jackpot segment. "
deskr|1 year ago
>Mr Padgett then made the remarkable assertions that this was a “fairly minor display issue” and that the Claimant “had not been negatively impacted and was in fact paid out the correct amount as determined by the RNG and in line with Paddy Power’s terms and conditions.”
>Stopping here, despite the absence of a witness statement from the Claimant, I do not accept those assertions by Mr Padgett. £1 million is a life changing sum for the vast majority of people in England and Wales. It could abolish debts, feed families, buy houses, pay for private medical care and many other vital matters in life. I infer that, like the majority of the population, the Claimant hoped and maybe dreamed of winning over £1 million. So, when she did so, on 18.10.2020, and when that sum was then taken away from her, that cannot properly or fairly be characterised as a “fairly minor display issue” and it is wrong to assert that the Claimant has “not been negatively impacted”.
Also:
>Mr Padgett admitted that 13 other consumers had been affected by the same mislabelling between the 1st of September and the 18th of October 2020 and he listed the dates upon which those events occurred. What he did not do was list the vice versa errors, namely where consumers were shown they had won the Daily Jackpot but in had in fact won the Monster Jackpot according to the RNGS and no evidence was provided at all about the vice versa errors, if any. Nor did he inform the Court about what the Defendant had done in relation to each of those consumers’ wins.