Cheaper Games, less vague terms and a better way to stop fraud...
I was wondering if casino operators would be willing to lower their bet sizes, I.e. a minimum bet of 0.10p on games like blackjack, roulette, 3 card poker, a video-poker max bet option for 0.25p like they have on playtech. I would like this especially for microgaming and cryptologic casinos who I am finding it is getting too expensive to play.
I have noticed
32red have reduced the bet size on their mobile casino roulette to 0.20 a spin which is perfect. They haven't changed it on their online casino, but perhaps this will happen soon. It shows that minimum bet size can be reduced on microgaming casinos. I wish that all casinos would follow 32red's example in this and do something similar, not just for roulette though but all table games and slots.
A lot of folk are unemployed at the moment me included, and 1, 2, 5 and 10 minimum bets are too expensive. The thing is with this current worldwide credit crunch things are only going to get worse and less and less players are going to have the money to play anymore, and perhaps casinos should consider reducing their minimum bet sizes to accomodate those players who are really struggling at the moment and still want to play, it may be beneficial to them as well and a way for them to survive this economic crisis. As surely it is better for them to have players placing small 0.10 bets than to lose them altogether. Millions of people placing 0.10 bets soon adds up and there will still be high rollers out there like rockstars/dodgy bankers who can afford the higher bets. Just a thought...
Also would be good if something could be done about making terms/conditions easier to understand, and less vague. To avoid confusion and to stop them being used as an excuse to not pay someone. People should be able to bet how they want without feeling like criminals, i.e. some terms say hedge betting isn't allowed... I don't understand this, but it seems as if they are telling people they can't flat-bet... if someone wants to flatbet they are not bonus-abusers or fraudsters, they just want to make their play session last longer to increase entertainment value. If their term about hedge-betting isn't saying flat-betting is wrong, then it just goes to add to my point about them being confusing... Also if casinos don't want bot-play they should get rid of the auto-play function on their games, as I feel this is a daft thing to say when they have bots programmed in their games already like on the viper software. I have also noticed terms like it is possible to be a promotion abuser/bad player even if all the terms and conditions have been adhered to, and if the casino manager decides in its sole discretion despite terms and conditions being adhered to that the player is bad, then all winnings will be void... this seems like an extremely dodgy term to me and dangerous for the player... as could be used as an unfair excuse to not pay people their winnings...
Another thing it would be good to make people pass I.D. checks and for payment processers/casinos to run their fraud checks at the time of deposit rather than withdrawal. This would cause a lot less problems and confusion when it comes to complaints about players not getting paid, and will stop it becoming an excuse to not pay people. To me it seems quite a few casinos/not all do these checks at time of withdrawal as an excuse not to pay. I understand players want to play, and don't want to hang around waiting for checks, but perhaps in the long run it would work out better, and if all casinos adapt this policy, then players would get used to it. I feel it would end a whole load of problems. Another thing is I don't agree with bonus abusers and fraudsters being lumped together in the same sentence as if they are both as bad as each other, bonus abusers aren't criminals. I think if they checked their bonus abuser database at time of deposit rather than withdrawal, this would stop bonuses being added to those they consider to be bonus abusers ain the first place, and end a lot of unnecessary casino/player angst.
Hopefully if all these checks were done at the time of deposit rather than at time of withdrawal it would end all this bullshit...
Another thing, I have noticed that casinos are getting too lax about not displaying payout percentages for players to see, the ones displayed on site are often months old and no longer relevant. This to me seems a bit dodgy and would help me have more peace of mind that the games are still paying out fairly if I can see regular payout information displayed on the casinos websites, preferably once a month...
One last thing, I wish that they would create more games for the mobile casinos, as at the moment the choice is pretty dire...
Sorry meant for this to be a short post, but once I got going it turned into an essay...
whomever that may be. See Jetset's article from 1-16-09 in your News section
.....go figure
