Sama sama. I havent touched ARUZE for a long time too. Was crazy about their game in my earlier outings especially San Guo, Queen, Qin Shi Huang and Shen Long. Now, I see already also scared to play. I think the Rescue spin counter is a double edge sword for the manufacturer. It sucks the player into the game and play until dry. The flip side is a 500 counter just does not attract people to play. Imagine if no random feature, one has to play 500 games to reach feature => Even a ave bet (100cr=$2) will require $1000 if one is unlucky.
I think to entice people to play, ARUZE should reduce the rescue spin countdown from 500 to 250. Even the odds of the Aristocrat shows that the ave feature trigger is about 100-200 (I think). 500 is crazy. I hope ARUZE is listening.....