If you look at the point where the “I-Deck” (the horizontal touch screen that is about waist high) meets the main body of the cabinet, you’ll see what looks like a tiny display. That display is a part in of the “player tracking” system.
I’ve installed countless numbers of them in my time as a slot tech, some of them on the Everi Empire Flex, the slot cabinet pictured.
Games played, bet amounts, coin in/out (win/los statements), time on machine, god knows what else. Have you ever joined a “players club” at a casino where you insert a card into the machine you’re playing and get rewarded things like Free play? That’s player tracking in action.
The statistics tracked by the machine are specific to that machine alone and do not differentiate between individual players. Without a separate player tracking system, the casino has no way of tracking the play of individual players, just the total play by all players on a machine.
If you look at the point where the “I-Deck” (the horizontal touch screen that is about waist high) meets the main body of the cabinet, you’ll see what looks like a tiny display. That display is a part in of the “player tracking” system.
I’ve installed countless numbers of them in my time as a slot tech, some of them on the Everi Empire Flex, the slot cabinet pictured.
My card-based probability/skill games are currently on Riverboats. I just made the games, no concept whatsoever about the hardware side.
I’m curious as hell… what do they track and how?
Games played, bet amounts, coin in/out (win/los statements), time on machine, god knows what else. Have you ever joined a “players club” at a casino where you insert a card into the machine you’re playing and get rewarded things like Free play? That’s player tracking in action.
Why would an add-on be needed for this when all of those are tracked by the internals?
What special and unique features do these offer that do not come native to the device?
The statistics tracked by the machine are specific to that machine alone and do not differentiate between individual players. Without a separate player tracking system, the casino has no way of tracking the play of individual players, just the total play by all players on a machine.