Why Wowpot Jackpot games are not available on Casino Rewards casinos

If you are a member of one of the Casino Rewards casinos, then you may well be wondering why a number of Microgaming's most famous and playable progressive jackpot slot games are now no longer available on the network.

Titles like the old favourite Major Millions as well as the newer released games Absolootly Mad Mega Moolah plus the three Wowpot Progressive Jackpot games, Wheel of Wishes and the two newer releases Book of Atem Wowpot and Sisters of Oz Wowpot, are not available to play from Casino Rewards casinos.

Have you ever wondered why? We have and in this article, we are going to see if we can figure out why.

Casino Rewards and Microgaming

The first thing that you note about the Casino Rewards Network when you join up is that the sites are powered by Microgaming software. But what do we mean by Microgaming software?

Well we know that over the last few years, Microgaming has been heavily focused on broadening its field of operations. To that end, it has not only signed up a number of studios to produce exclusive content for Microgaming, but it has also struck a large number of 'content aggregator' deals with other slots providers.

What this means is that some sites that offer Microgaming slots in addition to other slot games, can now also take games from these other providers, which is better for the casinos as they can offer more games, better for the slots development company as they can piggyback on Microgaming's formidable reputation in the industry to get into more casinos and get more people playing the game and of course, it is also good news for the player too as they have more choice of games.

However, with the Casino Rewards Network what you find is that none of the Content Aggregator games are available. However all Microgaming games (including some that are exclusive to the Casino Rewards network) are available and that includes all major slot releases from the likes of partner studios like All41 Studios, Stormcraft Studos, Slingshot Studios and more.

This makes the omission from the network of games like Wheel of Wishes (by Alchemy Gaming), Absolootly Mad (by Triple Edge Studios) as well as the new Book of Atem Wowpot (by All42 Studios) and the Sisters of Oz Wowpot (also by Triple Edge Studios) all the more confusing as the site does carry other games by these companies.

For example, you can play the Jackpot version of the Sisters of Oz slot at Casino Rewards as well as other Triple Edge Studio games such as Attack on Retro, Book of Oz and similar.

The same is true for other developers that have released standard slot games, as well as a progressive. You can play these standard games at Casino Rewards Network casinos, but not the progressive jackpot slots.

The question is, why?

Why are these games unavailable at Casino Rewards Casinos?

To be truthful, we are not 100% sure why this is the case. However, it does appear that Microgaming does license its progressive jackpot games slightly differently to casinos than it does its standard slot games and casino games.

We do have a contact in the industry who we have asked why this is the case and we are still waiting to hear back from them, if we do and we get an answer we will of course update this article in due course.

By licensing their progressive jackpot games differently, perhaps even title by title, Microgaming would then be able to control which games are played in which casinos and casinos, or casino networks, would then be able to pick and choose which Microgaming progressive games they want to carry, or whether they do not want to carry any at all.

That could certainly be the situation as one site I have used extensively in the United Kingdom, Bet365, carries a wide range of standard Microgaming slot games on one of its trio of casino sites. However, while it offers a wide range of progressive jackpot slots from other companies, it does not carry Microgaming progressives.

Additionally, other sites that I have used and continue to use from time to time, such as Leo Vegas, will carry some Microgaming progressive jackpot titles but not others. On Leo Vegas you can play Mega Moolah, Mega Moolah Isis, Absolootly Mad Mega Moolah and Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah, you can also play the Book of Atem Wowpot and the new Sisters of Oz Wowpot slot, but you cannot play the Wheel of Wishes game, which was the game that launched the Wowpot progressive back in February.

To me, it does seem that Microgaming must offer different levels of supply deals with casinos. Some deals may only include Microgaming's standard slot offerings, some may include their content aggregation partners too and there may be an entirely different deal available for companies to carry Microgaming progressives. That to me is the only way that what is happening in casinos like those at Casino Rewards, makes sense.

Why would a casino elect to carry only a proportion of Microgaming progressive slots?

On the face of it, it does not make sense for a casino to offer just a small proportion of Microgaming's progressive jackpot games on its site. Surely it is more beneficial to a casino to offer all the possible options to play for the Wowpot or the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot prize?

The only way that this does not make sense for casinos is if it is perhaps too expensive to do so, or that local laws forbid some of the features in these games being offered. It could also be the case that casinos may want to focus gaming on certain slot games, such as the Casino Rewards Network preferring players to play the Mega Vault Millionaire game over the other more generically available Mega Moolah slots.

Whatever is the issue, it is an intriguing one and it is one that is somewhat puzzling for players, who now may have to scout around different casinos to play all the progressive jackpot titles from Microgaming that they want to play, rather than having them all available in a single place.

As I say, if we get clarity from a reliable source as to the reason for this, then we will update this article with that information to let players know why finding some Microgaming progressives on some sites is impossible, even when it seems that they should be there to play.