• Anakin-Marc Zaeger@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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?

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        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.