Games
The difference between a slot's RTP and a live table's deal
An RNG slot, a live-dealer table and a provably fair game are three different things, and each one proves something different about fairness.
“Slots” and “live casino” get used almost interchangeably in casual conversation, but they're built on completely different mechanics, and mixing them up leads to some genuinely wrong assumptions - particularly around what RTP means and who it belongs to.
What an RNG slot actually is
An online slot runs on a random-number generator: software that decides each spin's outcome the moment you press play. The long-run payout behaviour of that specific game is described by its return-to-player percentage, or RTP, which is set and published by the game's provider - the studio that built the slot - not by whichever casino happens to be running it. A single slot title carries the same RTP wherever it's offered, because the game itself, not the casino wrapped around it, is what the RTP describes. A casino can't have “an RTP” of its own any more than a cinema can have a film's runtime; it can only offer titles that each carry their own.
What a live-dealer table is instead
A live-dealer game is a different category entirely. Rather than a computed result, it streams a real dealer, wheel, or shoe from a studio, usually operated by a specialist provider rather than the casino itself, with the outcome determined by that physical process and relayed to players in real time. There's no RTP figure attached to a live table in the way a slot carries one, because the mechanism isn't computed - it's watched. What a live table offers instead is a visible process: you can see the wheel spin or the cards dealt, rather than trusting a number a provider publishes about long-run averages.
What “provably fair” actually means
A narrower category sits alongside both of the above, found mostly on crypto-native platforms rather than traditional software-provider libraries: provably fair games. These typically work by combining a server seed, hashed and shown before the round, with a client seed a player can influence, then revealing the server seed afterward so the round's fairness can be checked independently. What that verification proves is narrow and specific - that the result wasn't altered once the bet was placed - and nothing beyond that. It doesn't prove a withdrawal will clear quickly, doesn't prove an operator holds any particular licence, and doesn't say anything about the rest of the site's terms. Provably fair is usually applied to a specific set of in-house games rather than an entire library, since most slot titles come from third-party providers running their own RNG rather than an operator-built provably fair system.
Why we don't publish counts or provider lists here
Some comparison sites quote exact game counts or named software providers per operator. We haven't confirmed that data to a standard we'd stand behind for the 13 operators compared on this site, so this page doesn't state figures - a made-up number would be worse than no number at all. What we do check and publish is covered on how we rank, which focuses on what each operator's own terms and licence register actually say rather than on game catalogue size.
Where this fits with the rest of the site
None of this changes the legal picture covered on the law page - a provably fair label or a big slot library doesn't amount to a Malaysian licence, because none exists. And whatever a reader decides about game type, it's worth reading responsible gambling before deciding how much time or money to put behind it, since RNG variance and live-table pacing both carry real risk regardless of how fair the underlying mechanism is. The full scored crypto casino Malaysia comparison sits on the main page, alongside the licence and identity-check reading this page deliberately doesn't repeat.