The differing psychology in play and utility value we have with the faucet amount is what throws normal theory out the door here imo. As evidenced by normal house edge of ~1% v faucet edge of ~4%.
Where do you see that the faucet has an "edge of ~4%"?
That sounds like crazy talk to me... are you suggesting that the laws of mathematics are affected by the emotions of the person running a deterministic random number generation algorithm such that they lose a bigger percentage of the amount they risk when playing with free coins than when they are risking their own coins? Because that's what it sounds like you are saying. If not, what does "faucet edge" even mean?
Actually yeah, a high faucet was promised for PD3.
If it's the case that players were promised a certain level of faucet payouts, and that promise is now being broken, then that's no good.
I never saw anything like that in the talk leading up to the release of PD3 - from what I remember it was mostly vague "there will be levels" type stuff, nothing specific, and so changing details like the amount the faucet pays out isn't breaking any promise.
Maybe you can quote the post that made the promise you feel is now being broken.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208986.msg4284687#msg4284687 wasnt really a promise but stunna did say there would be higher faucet