Well, regardless of how all of that turns out even now, it is always a bad idea to make a public event of someone NOT being paid a Million.
That is bad publicity indeed.
Most of the time I agree that is “no such thing as bad publicity” (myself being a point in case, 
), but here we are looking at an exception.
A Million $ win is a huge promotional tool – and RTG offering a game where one person repeatedly won goodly amounts of money at various casinos, is also.
I am still tuned and very interested in how this plays out. But I think the fat lady hasn’t sung yet.