Hi casinoreports,
Suppose a player deposited and lost $250 under the rev share, it would have paid the affiliate $87.50 or 35% of the $250. With the wager share suppose the same player deposited the $250, tracked all their hits so in the end they churned a $1000 worth of money through the slot, the affiliate will get paid 1.3% of the $1000 or $13.00
(I don’t believe it but supposedly with wager share a $10 deposit can work out to be about $269.23 churned through the slot depending on the size and number of bets mades. This could easily be figured out by looking at any slot’s paytable. This number has to be either ideal or bogus.)
According to these numbers, for every $10 played of our $250 we’d churn $269.23 through the slot or 25 x $269.23 for $6730.75 total churned through the slot. Our take is 1.3 % of $6730.75 or $87.4975. (the formula is simple, money churned through or total bets made can only be equal to the initial deposit plus the sum of total wins or hits)
Unless it’s changed, in order to get a payment from RA the affiliate must earn $200 so you can see at making $87.50 vs. $13 how long it will take to reach the $200, this is why it benefits RA. Alternately, how many times will a player deposit $250 and churn $6730.75 through the slot from it? Anyone know?
I’d bet RA has more affiliate member sites with a just a few rmps than affiliate member sites with many rmps. Only RA can provide this data.
On some of the land-based slots you can tap the door and it will print out an audit slip which shows just how much cash the slot took in, how much was wagered and how much was cashed out. I’m sure the online slots have a similar audit slip.
Theoretically the wager model will pay more, but only if you have many players or a few wagering large amounts. What an affiliate really wants is a player to make some decent hits and then wager it all back.
I’ve had some of the games like Harvey’s up in the high tens of thousands of credits won in play mode, (supposedly the payout % is the same as in real money mode) however had it been real money I would have cashed it out and not churned it back through.