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I've been playing a few tournaments and generally making a nuisance of myself at 3DICE the last few weeks and I've noticed a few interesting things about their approach.
It seems they're very much aiming to build a 'community' around the player experience, with a couple of interesting little features to the software.
1) The "Chat Room"
A constant connection to other players logged on at the same time, and the *inspired* inclusion of automatic updates when someone wins big... There's nothing worse/better for slot players than seeing that someone just won big on your favourite slot!!! Off you go to give it a try More interestingly, if you create a community where people get to know and enjoy talking to each other, it provides another incentive to log on to 3DICE, purely from a social perspective; very clever!
2) "Send screenshot to My 3Dice"
Again, inspired. If you hit a nice win, there is automatic functionality within the software to capture a screenshot and store it within your own little bit of '3DICE'.... The "Winners Screenshots" thread here proves how much people like doing this and the popularity in terms of how much people like seeing them; to build this functionality into the software again suits the players and promotes further gaming from everyone else.
So the great CS and good fun games etc aside - I'm interested in opinions of the approach that 3DICE are taking; the angle of building a true 'player community' whilst benefitting from an underlying profitable business model.
Of course should they decide to licence the 3DICE software third party, this may have an impact on the brand, reputation and 'community' ethic; this is presumably therefore out of the question short term.
The more I think about it though, and with all the nonsense surrounding legislation and online casinos and in an extremely competitive marketplace full of 'me too' marketing - I think this might just pay off.
It seems they're very much aiming to build a 'community' around the player experience, with a couple of interesting little features to the software.
1) The "Chat Room"
A constant connection to other players logged on at the same time, and the *inspired* inclusion of automatic updates when someone wins big... There's nothing worse/better for slot players than seeing that someone just won big on your favourite slot!!! Off you go to give it a try More interestingly, if you create a community where people get to know and enjoy talking to each other, it provides another incentive to log on to 3DICE, purely from a social perspective; very clever!
2) "Send screenshot to My 3Dice"
Again, inspired. If you hit a nice win, there is automatic functionality within the software to capture a screenshot and store it within your own little bit of '3DICE'.... The "Winners Screenshots" thread here proves how much people like doing this and the popularity in terms of how much people like seeing them; to build this functionality into the software again suits the players and promotes further gaming from everyone else.
So the great CS and good fun games etc aside - I'm interested in opinions of the approach that 3DICE are taking; the angle of building a true 'player community' whilst benefitting from an underlying profitable business model.
Of course should they decide to licence the 3DICE software third party, this may have an impact on the brand, reputation and 'community' ethic; this is presumably therefore out of the question short term.
The more I think about it though, and with all the nonsense surrounding legislation and online casinos and in an extremely competitive marketplace full of 'me too' marketing - I think this might just pay off.