Okay...first post in the "I'm starting a casino, tell me what you'd like to see" series... first off, thanks for the welcome here and let me know if I'm posting this to the wrong board.
I can't afford to give out major bonuses at first, and I don't want to attract people who are going to just come in to play a bonus through and then jet. At the same time, I don't think it's fair for a casino to give a bonus and then require an absurd number of playthroughs or even worse, withhold winnings on the bonus in the same way. So I think I hit on a formula that will be attractive to real players and unattractive to scrapers. Tell me what you think:
We keep track of the player's total bets over all time. We ask for 15 playthroughs of a bonus, and one playthrough of a deposit, and the formula is very simple.
((deposits-withdrawals)+(bonus*15)-totalbets)/15 = current withholding.
So if a player puts in $100 and gets a $25 bonus, her initial withholding is $31.67. The beauty of it is that if she bets $25 and wins, she can withdraw the winnings immediately -- her account now has $150 and her withholding goes down to $30, so she can take out $120 right away.
Or, lets say a player already has played $500 in total bets on a previous $100 deposit. She could get that $25 bonus and cash it immediately with no withholding or playthroughs, since they're already covered.
On the other hand, if in the first case she has that $100+$25 and loses it all on the first bet, she'd still have $23.33 withheld on her account the next time she deposited (plus 1/15th of whatever the next deposit was), until she'd played $23.33 * 15 in bets.
So what do you think? Do you see problems in this system? Would it appeal to you as a player, and would it make you more loyal to the casino, knowing that once you built up your total bets, future bonuses would be free money? Any and all advice is welcome!
I can't afford to give out major bonuses at first, and I don't want to attract people who are going to just come in to play a bonus through and then jet. At the same time, I don't think it's fair for a casino to give a bonus and then require an absurd number of playthroughs or even worse, withhold winnings on the bonus in the same way. So I think I hit on a formula that will be attractive to real players and unattractive to scrapers. Tell me what you think:
We keep track of the player's total bets over all time. We ask for 15 playthroughs of a bonus, and one playthrough of a deposit, and the formula is very simple.
((deposits-withdrawals)+(bonus*15)-totalbets)/15 = current withholding.
So if a player puts in $100 and gets a $25 bonus, her initial withholding is $31.67. The beauty of it is that if she bets $25 and wins, she can withdraw the winnings immediately -- her account now has $150 and her withholding goes down to $30, so she can take out $120 right away.
Or, lets say a player already has played $500 in total bets on a previous $100 deposit. She could get that $25 bonus and cash it immediately with no withholding or playthroughs, since they're already covered.
On the other hand, if in the first case she has that $100+$25 and loses it all on the first bet, she'd still have $23.33 withheld on her account the next time she deposited (plus 1/15th of whatever the next deposit was), until she'd played $23.33 * 15 in bets.
So what do you think? Do you see problems in this system? Would it appeal to you as a player, and would it make you more loyal to the casino, knowing that once you built up your total bets, future bonuses would be free money? Any and all advice is welcome!