If you’ve been following the online gaming blogosphere recently - not least, our own webspace dedicated for such purposes, the LCB Forum - you may have taken part in the ongoing discussion about the alleged unavailability of Realtime Gaming’s (RTG) slots on most online casinos.
The cause of all this distress? The long-announced abolishment of Flash, which was officially retired from wider use on December 31, 2020.
Alive and Well
First, let’s take a step back before proceeding any further.
The majority of RTG’s slots use Flash as their architecture’s main ingredient. This is the technology that powered their portfolio for use in instant online casinos, as well as download versions.
With Flash’s (timely) demise, there beckons a question of RTG games’ fate. A certain number of concerned players have noticed that a good number of RTG’s slot games have not been converted to HTML5 from Flash, thus making them unavailable and unplayable. Most of these complaints had to do with instant play/online casino experiences.
This prompted some players to wonder what have RTG been doing, not responding to one of the biggest changes on internet in recent years.
However, as the old tune goes, “it ain’t necessarily so.”
Turns out, RTG was NOT in the dark about Flash kicking the bucket (no one in the world is) and was working diligently for the past few years now on transitioning from this obsolete technology to the now widely accepted HTML5.
(Ultimately, this is something we have written about at length before.)
In fact, you can find the entire LIST of games that are available, will be available and are not available (nor they’re likely to be) on various platforms and devices in THIS forum thread at Affiliate Guard Dog.
The same forum thread contains some enlightening nuggets of info from the brand itself as the source, such as:
"Here is a full list of the games that will no longer be available for Mobile and Instant Play at the end of the year but will continue to be supported on Download only.”
and
“We will be activating the remaining HTML5 migrated games this upcoming Wednesday, 12/16 at 10:00 am EST.”
Casino Reps Clarify the Situation
The above clearly proves that RTG is being proactive about the whole situation, albeit not up to players’ standards on speed.
Further consolation - and in even more detail - came from several casino representatives whose online venues use RTG’s software. They too shed some encouraging light on the matter on this thread.
CasinoMax, Cherry Jackpot, Roaring 21 and Spinfinity rep remarked:
“There will be a reduction in games but a lot have already been converted into HTML5, which is essentially taking over from where Flash (rest its soul) left off. Behind the scenes the games have been worked on to convert them from flash to HTML5 over the last 3 years. Those games that will be 'let go' will be games that are no longer played or played very little. “
Casino Extreme rep had this to add:
“The handful of Legacy games which are no longer available in Instant Play modes, can still be accessed by those willing to use the Download Platform."
So there you have it. In hopes that this puts the whole RTG/Flash situation to bed - and by that, we mean your concerns and worries - rest assured Realtime Gaming is adapting to the present situation to their best abilities.
Robert Melgoza 2 years ago
Flash was unavailable I didn't know rtg runs on flash and some other games I play do as well they were going away. good thing they are still here. there's some of my favorite games iam a fan of rtg and Facebook gaming room the flash thing confused a little cool
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Adrian Maciaszek 3 years ago
As a big fan of Real Time Gaming this is very exciting news for me as the end of flash had me worried that my favorite games would be gone for good but thankfully the future is here loll a few sites i saw disappear after flash was no longer supported. Hope all stay safe and have massive wins this weekend! Be Kind and Be...
As a big fan of Real Time Gaming this is very exciting news for me as the end of flash had me worried that my favorite games would be gone for good but thankfully the future is here loll a few sites i saw disappear after flash was no longer supported. Hope all stay safe and have massive wins this weekend! Be Kind and Be Well! and always cash out if you hit the big one at an RTG
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kevr122 3 years ago
This game is awesome. Hit big on it
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barsalou6 3 years ago
OK what I’m not fully comprehending is why the flash versions of the game or no longer available which I understand that but how come the mobile version of the game is still available obviously because it doesn’t take flash to use the mobile version but why are we not adapting are still allowed to play mobile?? you know...
OK what I’m not fully comprehending is why the flash versions of the game or no longer available which I understand that but how come the mobile version of the game is still available obviously because it doesn’t take flash to use the mobile version but why are we not adapting are still allowed to play mobile?? you know what I’m trying to say???. Maybe not but because he knows such as ignition took the remaining jackpot on the games and aren’t going to be played anymore and move them to other game so I thought that was a pretty cool idea something like 1.5 million in jackpot money and the games that are no longer available in flash or they’re moving him to a different game so go ignition!! Yay! But the games that we can still play Mobile why are we still getting rid of those if we can still play them on mobile version and how come we can’t make the mobile version available on the Internet just like we can make the you know the just like you can view web version on your phone why can’t you play mobile version via browser.??♂️
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Bubbles12 3 years ago
This flash thing brought so much confusion, thanks for the article.
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bridgetjones 3 years ago
Thank you for your explanation! I'm about to read that list at Affiliate Guard Dog site.
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Dzile 3 years ago
Thanks for this article, this transition has caused some confusion but as the deadline was known, everyone was ready for these changes
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Alexis Gold 3 years ago
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation, I'm sure our members are at ease knowing that RTG has been doing something about this Flash kerfuffle! All we can do now is patiently wait for them to finish the procedure!
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barebones 3 years ago
Have to say, I appreciate the explanation you offer in this article. Even though I don't play RTG games much, I did come across recently a casino that had only a few RTG titles available so it definitely made me curious to learn how they are managing this situation.
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DomLatVit 3 years ago
Awesome, thanks LCB for explaining the whole confusing ordeal.
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