Hi, thanks for advising of this! But could you possibly tell us a little more about the site, like where it's based, who set it up etc.? It kind of came out of nowhere! We know alot about the main sites out there like ww, king + skilladdiction and the people/companies running them. Just like to know who we're dealing with, thx!
Sure - I was just in a rush yesterday, sorry. Funwin is part of the Quanmax AG, a huge IT-company in Austria. Funwin was founded in the middle of 2009 but most of the games have been playable for years as they were already exclusively provided by Photoplay which is one of the largest vendor of skill based slot machines (real life terminals) in europe!
Here is a picture of those touchscreen-gadgets which you can find in many bars (especially in Greece, Cyprus,...):
ALL slot-machine games (Photoplay) are provided as touchscreen-games and thats why all releases on Funwin are also nicely playable via touchscreen - at least if you have something like that at home All games follow the principle: Keep it simple, but fun! Right now you can find over 40 games on Funwin, some are crappy (f.e. the presentation of the helicopter-game "Aviator"), some are brilliant. You also find a few games-clones that you can find on King (Superstars=Chuzzle, Bloxxy=Cat Corner, Rumbling Marbles=TypeofBejeweled, and many more).
See a video of the brilliant game Pengu Flip (simple gameplay, simple graphics, but really innovative and fun):
It's quite obvious that this game is also playable with a touchscreen, but personally I still play all games with pc-mouse
Pay-outs are done within a week! I own a few 5€ vouchers. Perhaps I will post some here if you want me to Just ask for more details if you still miss some informations!
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I've actually looked at this site a month or so ago and noticed they now offered paypal deposits. However, withdrawals appear limited to directly to a bank account. This is typical of a couple European sites over the years. You could deposit via paypal, but withdrawals had to be to a bank account in Europe with IBAN and BIC numbers, something you can't do for US accounts. Correct me if I'm wrong.
That's weird, surely the whole point of paypal is that you can keep your bank details secret and not have to reveal them to all and sundry? It seems they are keen to take your money, but getting it back will be harder. Up to them I suppose, but I can see that as being a stumbling block to building customers. I don't think I will bother because of that reason alone.
And the argument of 'they need to check for fraud' doesn't wash because they can still do that before they send the money i.e. examine game details/timing etc. for bots/software whatever. I just think paypal is soooo much easier+secure.
So messed around on this site a bit--the withdrawal system is sketchy at best, though I see several other players on there that I've seen on other sites (namely king players) so maybe it's not a complete wash. Though the fact you can't withdrawal via paypal, yet you can deposit that way, seems like a scam.
What is also really weird is that you can't see other player's scores until your tournament has finished. I don't understand the point of that. Also when you play jackpot tournaments, and you enter more than once, it looks like they actually average your scores--totally whacked!
The games are pretty fun, but they removed the chuzzle/staries knock-off so that sort of blew. They got a fun word game, which I messed around with entirely too much. I went a head and deposited a little bit of money just because I wanted to test the whole site out, but that seemed pretty stupid given the fact I'll never make a withdrawal because there's no way giving these people my bank account & routing numbers--just seems like leaving my car door open with the keys in the ignition and wondering why the darn thing got stolen.
Anyhow, I thought I'd give it a whirl but it seems fly-by-night.
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All games follow the principle: Keep it simple, but fun! Right now you can find over 40 games on Funwin, some are crappy (f.e. the presentation of the helicopter-game "Aviator"), some are brilliant. You also find a few games-clones that you can find on King (Superstars=Chuzzle, Bloxxy=Cat Corner, Rumbling Marbles=TypeofBejeweled, and many more).
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