Last Updated: September 30, 2026

How We Check the Facts

The guides on Pirate777 are written by the Pirate777 Editorial Team and checked against sources we can name: the live platform read on a test account, our own read of the game library, the regulators’ and testing labs’ public records, and the studios’ own game pages. When we check a guide, every figure that can change gets the date we read it, every figure we measured ourselves is labelled as ours, and anything we cannot confirm at a source comes off the page rather than being reworded. This page sets out each source, what it can and cannot prove, and the claims you will never see us make.

Who writes and checks Pirate777’s guides?

The Pirate777 Editorial Team. The byline is a team name rather than a named reviewer because the checks below are team work, and we never put a made-up person on a page. What makes a guide trustworthy is not a name at the bottom but whether each fact in it can be traced to where it was read — so this page describes that trail instead.

What do we read on the platform itself?

Anything the platform shows a player, we read on the platform. We sign in with a test account and only read: nothing is paid, and no phone number or PIN is ever typed on a payment page. The reads behind our guides include:

• A full read of the platform in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese on 8 September 2026 — the cashier, the withdrawal form, the wallet, the task and challenge screens, the lobby and our own legal pages, captured screen by screen.
• The cashier’s method list, requested at set amounts without completing a deposit — for example RM10, RM30 and RM100 on 25 September 2026. The cashier hides a method when the amount sits outside its band, which is how the minimum and maximum for each route are pinned down.
• The withdrawal form, which prints its own limits on screen (read 18 September 2026).
• The rank table, taken from the app’s own data rather than read off the wallet panel by position (read 20 August 2026 and again on 25 September 2026).
• Every game’s start screen — on 29 September 2026 we checked all 3,106 games in the lobby for a Try Free button, studio by studio.
• A game’s own rules page, opened through our lobby — Super Ace’s, read on 25 September 2026, prints its reels, features and bet range but no RTP figure, so we quote none from it.

An option that is missing on one visit is not proof that it does not exist — a route can be down for maintenance at that moment — so an absence is checked again, or with the operator, before a page says so.

Where do game counts and RTP figures come from?

From our own read of the platform’s game library, dated 5 August 2026: 3,330 titles from 17 studios, each with the RTP the lobby tile shows for it. Most titles show 96% or 97% on the tile; some sit lower and a few higher, so we never describe a library-wide RTP “floor”. The second percentage on each tile is the lobby rating, not an RTP. Mega888, 918Kiss and Cosmo Play publish no RTP in the library, and we show none for them rather than borrow a number from elsewhere — our Mega888 RTP and fairness guide explains what a player can and cannot check there. Because counts change as studios add games, we give a count either with the date of the read it comes from or as a round figure such as “more than 2,500 titles”.

How do we check a studio’s licence or test certificate?

At the regulator’s or the testing lab’s own public record, and we link it so you can check it too:

• UK Gambling Commission public register — Pragmatic Play (account 56015), Playtech (account 38516) and Games Global, the company behind Microgaming titles (account 58841).
• Malta Gaming Authority — PG Soft, licence MGA/B2B/435/2017.
• GLI’s certificate search — certificate 573 covers Fa Chai’s random number generator, valid to the end of February 2027. It covers the generator only, so we never present it as a certificate for each game’s RTP.
• PAGCOR’s lists of approved electronic games — for Jili, PlayStar, YGR and Fa Chai. We match our titles against each list by name: the Jili list dated 19 May 2026 names 198 of our 258 Jili titles. An approved-games list is a register of games, not a studio licence, so we say “most” of a studio’s titles appear on it — never “licensed”, and never “all”.

Facts about how payments move — DuitNow, FPX, the national payment network — are checked against PayNet’s and Bank Negara Malaysia’s own published pages, with the date we read them. A studio with no register entry or certificate we can find and link, such as Mega888, 918Kiss or V-Power, gets no licence or lab claim on our pages. Our About Us page lists these studio records together.

What do the studios’ own game pages tell us?

A game’s features, volatility rating and maximum win are the studio’s facts, so we take them from the studio’s own game page and link that page beside the claim. Our game library holds no volatility or maximum-win column, so where a studio publishes no such page, we write no such label. When a studio’s page prints a decimal RTP, that is the studio’s figure; the RTP we quote for Pirate777 is the one on our lobby tile. Some studios print no RTP on their game pages at all — Jili and YGR among them — and we do not supply one.

Which figures are our own measurements?

A few figures on our pages were measured by us, not by an outside body, and each is labelled as ours wherever it appears:

• Deposit crediting times and success rates for each deposit route come from our own operational records for February 2025 to January 2026.
• Withdrawal timing was measured by our own finance team: the clock starts when a withdrawal is approved and stops when the receiving bank credits the account, timed in one-hour sessions on randomly chosen days and times from February 2025 to January 2026, and measured again from March to April 2026. It is internal monitoring, never externally audited. The average itself, and how to read it, is set out in our guide to how Pirate777 withdrawals work.
• Other platforms’ withdrawal times come from our own test withdrawals — 173 of them across 98 Malaysian platforms. Most platforms were timed once, so we present the result as indicative, not definitive.

We never describe these figures as independently verified.

What happens when no screen or register shows the answer?

Some facts are not on any screen — what happens to a payout that fails after it is sent, for example. Those we ask the operator directly, and the answer is recorded with its date before a page states it (that one: the money returns to the player’s Pirate777 wallet, and no fee is charged). If neither the platform, a public record nor the operator can confirm a claim, the claim comes off the page. We do not reword it into something vaguer that still says the same thing.

What will you never see us claim?

• A licence or test certificate for a studio that has none we can link.
• An RTP for a game or studio that publishes none, or a library-wide RTP “floor”.
• A promise that a payout will arrive within a set time. The only withdrawal timing we publish is our own measured average, labelled as ours.
• Outside verification of a figure we measured ourselves.
• A number taken from a site that names no source, lab or method for it.
• A named author or reviewer who does not exist.

How do we date and correct a fact?

A guide we have checked opens with a Last Updated line, and a figure that can change — a payment limit, a deposit band, a game count, a register entry — carries the date we read it, such as “read 25 September 2026”. When a new read changes a fact, we list every page that states it and correct each one in its own full re-check, together with anything else wrong on that page, rather than running a find-and-replace across the site. The Last Updated line moves when the page does.

Gambling is for adults aged 18 and over, and only with money you can afford to lose. Deposit limits, cooling-off breaks and self-exclusion are set for you by our 24/7 Captain’s Support team on request, and we point players to GamCare and BeGambleAware for free, confidential help.

— Pirate777 Editorial Team. Read about who we are on our About Us page.