Been trawling through a stack of casino write-ups lately trying to find somewhere decent to chuck a few spins, and honestly a lot of them feel dodgy as. Same layout, same "top pick", same 9.8 score slapped on everything like we're all gonna believe it. Half of them barely say anything useful either... just a wall of fluff and then a big sign-up button.
What I actually want to know is the stuff real players care about - do withdrawals drag on for days, are they painful with ID checks, do they mess Aussies around on payments, is support any good when something goes sideways, and are the pokies libraries actually decent or just padded out with junk. That's the stuff that matters, not some fake polished ranking where every site is somehow "excellent".
Reckon forum posts are way more helpful than most review pages now. At least here people will say if a site went to crap, started stalling cashouts, or turned into a bonus trap. Curious what everyone else uses when sussing out a new place - any review sites you still trust, or do you just ignore them and go off player feedback now?