New William Hill Slots

January 30, 2012

William Hill has added a whole load of new online slots to their portfolio recently. Most of these are established blockbusters such as Iron Man, Incredible Hulk and Top Trump. However, they must be congratulated for taking a risk and launching an entirely new type of multiplayer online slot.

Fishing Wit Buddies, as the name implies, follows a fishing theme. Up to 5 players can all play at once, with wins multiplied by the number of players, so up to a 5x multiplier. Additionally, the bonus features are multi-stage and require each of the players to contribute towards their play. Fishing With Buddies is also a very social online slot, with its own private chat room for the players to communicate.

Now, you are probably thinking what the hell is this? Who wants to play a multiplayer online slot? We have to agree, this does seem like a little bit of a gimmick and something of a surprise coming from William Hill. In many ways this stinks of a technology test, to evaluate the underlying mechanics and infrastructure required to develop and run multiplayer online slots. Our prediction is twofold. Firstly we do not think that Fishing With Buddies will be very popular, it just doesn’t give enough back to multiple players to make it exciting enough. Secondly, we fully expect William Hill to announce the development and subsequent launch of further multiplayer gambling games, once they are sure the technology works.

Even so, multiplayer online slots are sure to be a niche market. Think about it a second, you will have to play with 4 other people, all of which have the capability to make a mistake, thus losing you money. For this reason we just don’t see this new genre of online slot ever becoming popular. However, where we can see it working is with other types of online casino games such as Bingo and Blackjack. Although the possibility of collaboration between players would make something like Blackjack problematic. Bingo for sure though, a private online Bingo room for a group of friends could work out well and we have to ask why William Hill didn’t consider this instead of deploying a very odd multiplayer online slot?

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