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Posted February 6, 2015 by ben in Gambling News
 
 

New PlayOLG site sucks big time !

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Just how bad is the new PlayOLG website?

As a Canadian residing in Ontario, you may have seen the plastered signs on every bus stop, subway train or any available media outlet that there's a new website where players from Ontario can go to play some really cool slots and a variety of other online casino games. Let me be the first to tell you the new PlayOLG website is down right awful. Not only does it look like a first year web design student built it, but it lacks pretty well everything you would expect from such an established lottery corporation like OLG.

Starts off well

The sign up process is fairly simple. I completed my profile in about 5 minutes. The games can be played in real mode or practice mode and making a deposit right from your bank is done in just a few clicks for instant access. From there it goes all down hill. Seriously.

You need a good graphics card to even get started

First thing you may notice is that unless you have a pretty good graphics card the games are extremely laggy. This means Grandma is pretty well of of luck with her ” classic” computer from the early 2000's. Even my high end laptop did not have a good enough graphics card to play the games without pulling out a few hairs. I ended up switching to my main ( $1200 PC ) to finally get some games that worked properly.

All the games are flash based. WTF ?

The games are all flash based and require no downloading to play them. This may be fine as an alternative option but any online casino that is serious about providing entertainment to their players offer a download version of their casino. I guess the PlayOLG folks felt a simple flash based system would be fine. They were wrong. Flash sucks and a little research on PlayOLG's part would have avoided this mess.

Game selection is the worst I've ever seen in last 15 years

Yes I'm spoiled by playing at Microgaming casinos. ( 600 plus games ) As a Canadian I must admit that. However, there are a large number of online casinos that offer between 100 and 300 different games that are still excellent choices for online casino lovers. Enter PlayOLG. A total of 20 slots, 0 video poker games and 8 Table games for a grand total of 28 games.  Even at 28 games the quality is horrible. No exceptions. Every game is bad with poor graphics and piss poor bonus rounds.

Just how bad are the slots you ask ?

When you finally get to a computer that will actually allow you to play the provided selection of games you have as mentioned above, 28 games to choose from. I tried all 20 slot games and found them to be extremely out dated, laggy, boring and over all just really really bad. Very few have any type of bonus round and the ones that do offer a few free spins with no added features.  I've seen better slots on yahoo's pogo or facebook. Again PlayOLG didn't bother to do any research and launched with the minimal amount of decent games.

I could probably go on an on about just how badly I think PlayOLG screwed up here but I would suggest those who still want to give it a shot to visit them and see for yourself. For those of you from Ontario who are looking to play at a real online casino to try Video Slots  They offer over 600 great games and you will love how realistic their casinos are.




ben