Published May 22, 2026 · By Editorial Team · 8 min read

Hacksaw Gaming's Non-Stop Drop Has Paid Out €4.7M of Its €10M Pool, With Six Months to Go

Halfway through the twelve-month run of Hacksaw Gaming's Non-Stop Drop network promotion, players have collected €4.71 million of the €10 million guaranteed prize pool, the Malta-based studio confirmed in its January 2026 partner bulletin. The campaign, which started July 1, 2025 and runs to June 30, 2026, is now the largest network drop in iGaming history by guaranteed value.

What happened

Hacksaw launched Non-Stop Drop on July 1, 2025 as a successor to its 2024 Daily Drop programme, which paid €4 million across nine months. The 2025-26 iteration tripled the pool and removed the daily caps that had drawn criticism from high-volume players. Prizes are split into Mystery Drops (random awards on any spin between €5 and €5,000), Hourly Drops (timed awards from €50 to €15,000), Daily Drops (€500 to €50,000), and Mega Drops (€100,000 to €250,000).

Eligible titles include the studio's most-played releases: Wanted Dead or a Wild, Stack 'em, Hop'n'Pop, Le Bandit, Chaos Crew 2, Cash Compass, RIP City, and the 2025 launches Toshi Video Club and Itero. As of January 14, 2026, Hacksaw confirmed 2,143,000 individual drops awarded across the network, with the largest single payout standing at €248,710 from a Mega Drop hit on Wanted Dead or a Wild at a Stake-network operator in November 2025.

Participating operators include Stake, BC.Game, Roobet, Rollbit, Coins.Game, Bitcasino.io, Cloudbet, 1xBit, Bitstarz, mBit, Trustdice, Goated, Shuffle, MetaSpins, and Vave, alongside Maltese-licensed brands LeoVegas, Casumo and Mr Green. Spinmatic and Light & Wonder operate parallel competing network drops but at smaller pool sizes.

Why it matters

Network promotions of this scale represent a structural shift in how slot studios market their content. For two decades, the dominant model was per-operator marketing: studios licensed games and operators ran promotions independently. The Hacksaw model centralises the promotional spend at studio level and pays out across all participating operators simultaneously, creating an arbitrage incentive where players migrate toward operators carrying eligible titles.

Behind the headline numbers, the studio is running a controlled experiment in player retention. Internal Hacksaw data, shared selectively with affiliates in October 2025, indicated that the average session length on eligible titles increased 31% versus non-eligible titles among players aware of the drop. Average bet size increased 18%. The studio absorbs the prize cost as marketing expenditure, but the increased handle generates royalty income that offsets a meaningful portion of the outlay.

The €4.71 million pace through six months is below the €5 million halfway-pro-rata, leaving €5.29 million for the second half. Hacksaw's bulletin acknowledged the underspend and confirmed that the remaining Mega Drop pool has been increased to seven guaranteed €250,000 prizes between February and June 2026, up from the originally planned four.

Who is affected

The most direct beneficiaries are high-volume slot players at participating operators, particularly those concentrated on Hacksaw's catalogue. Crypto casinos in the Stake and BC.Game weight class drive the majority of eligible spins, but smaller operators like Coins.Game and Vave have seen disproportionate marketing leverage from the campaign relative to their handle.

For operators, the calculus is more complex. Carrying Hacksaw's catalogue with Non-Stop Drop branding is free, but operators must absorb the customer acquisition uplift through their own bonus structures or risk losing players to competitors offering aggressive deposit matches alongside the network drop. Operators outside Hacksaw's preferred distribution have reported player attrition during the campaign, particularly to Stake-network properties carrying the full eligible library.

Competing studios have responded with their own network promotions. Pragmatic Play extended its Drops & Wins programme to a €2 million monthly pool from January 2026, up from €1.5 million in 2025. Push Gaming launched its Power Drops with a €1.2 million quarterly pool. Nolimit City has explicitly declined to participate, citing studio policy against network-level promotional pools.

Affiliates carrying Hacksaw content have benefited from increased click-through rates. AffStat data from December 2025 indicated that landing pages mentioning "Non-Stop Drop" or specific Hacksaw titles converted 22% better than equivalent pages mentioning generic "slot bonus" terms.

What players should do

Players interested in participating should verify that their chosen operator displays the Non-Stop Drop badge on the relevant title pages — Hacksaw maintains a public participant list at hacksawgaming.com that should match the operator's lobby presentation. The campaign awards drops only on real-money play in eligible currencies; bonus-funded spins and demo play are excluded.

Minimum qualifying bet sizes vary by drop tier. Mystery Drops trigger from any qualifying spin. Hourly Drops typically require a minimum bet of €0.20 equivalent. Daily Drops generally require €0.50. Mega Drops have no minimum bet in the published terms, but odds scale with stake size — a €5 spin is statistically far more likely to land a Mega Drop than a €0.20 spin.

Players should also note the regional restrictions. Non-Stop Drop is not available to players from the United Kingdom (where it would require UKGC approval as a third-party promotion), Spain (DGOJ restricts cross-operator pools), or several US states. Crypto-casino access typically circumvents these restrictions, but players in restricted jurisdictions should expect the drop overlay to be absent from their lobby view.

The remaining six months will skew toward larger guaranteed prizes. Players seeking the highest expected value per spin should focus on the post-February Mega Drop windows, which Hacksaw has signalled will be concentrated in March and May 2026.

Conclusion

Hacksaw's Non-Stop Drop has, on the data available, achieved its primary commercial goal: making the studio's catalogue stickier across the crypto-casino network during a year when competitor studios pushed similar formats. The €4.71 million paid out through January is a real number, the increased remaining Mega Drop guarantees are observable in operator T&Cs, and the format is likely to be repeated in 2026-27 with a larger pool. For players, it is a genuine — if heavily marketed — uplift in expected return on eligible titles, available only at operators that have signed the network agreement.