My thoughts
Haven't read the whole thread here.. but...
I'm new to 3dice the last week or 2. I will say that there's a loyal following in the chat room. That's to be expected. Complaining about bad beats, long losing streaks, horrible bonus rounds, length of time to trigger a bonus, etc. probably makes no sense anyway. It's not like the casino is going to change their software.
3dice is quite unique. They want to be different. They've created something with the tourneys and the chat room -- so that's its more of a social casino imho.
I've played a few tourneys now and also put in a fair amount of real money. Definately the losing streaks are the longest I've ever seen and the bonus rounds so far seem to average about 2x to 10x your bet. I think I had 1 or 2 out of 50+ that were worth 75x to 100x your bet. I made over 1million spins on Microgaming casinos and am looking for a new home which is a little more likely to pay 100x to 1000x a bit more often -- if that even exists.
Without knowing the exact odds of all the games at 3dice, the only thing I can do is look at top payouts. Basically from what I can see, unless you hit 5 scatters and trigger a Super Bonus round (per se), you wont win much at all. They dont have any games that pay 20,000x to 150,000x time line bet like Microgaming does. They dont have Random Jackpots like RTG (although could be coming soon).
So if you want that 1 in 10million chance of winning 1000x your bet or more, 3dice might be best. But if you like to win midrange wins fairly often (even while maybe having a net loss), 3dice might be the wrong place.
But you cant argue with the concept of free tourneys and a free chat room. They just dont have that much of anywhere else. A few places have tourneys but not so many regular 'free' ones.
To each his own. I do appreciate what 3dice is trying to do to be different. Yes, the games appear super, ultra tight. But it says High Variance all over the games. I will probably stick to Video Poker there when I play and leave it at that for now. Hopefully they'll come up with some new games soon that aren't so tight where you can literally win big without having to hit 5 scatters.
Also, the service and support is very good. Very
fast payouts and they seem to really care about you.
My main beef besides the long losing streaks thus far would have to be the constant crashes. I've tried 3 different pcs and I get irregular crashes -- and IF I hit a bonus round and let it time out, 3dice crashes every time and is unrecoverable. I have to either fail it manually or reboot my pc. I'm sure they'll get that fixed in the next release though.
All the best everyone. I guess if you dont like 3dice, your money speaks loudest when its playing somewhere else.
Cheers. J~
gl an keep up the good work
and I do agree with you on the fact that the usual "followers" jump on anyone if they say anything bad about 3dice. which is not really the way it should be ,but the world is full of em .....
. so wadda ya say.... lets go kick the little red dogs azz tonight.. 
don't be surprised if one day he doesn't come out of his little red dog house .. 
