Poll: Are faucets actually good for Casinos?

[Altcoin4life]

Just like the poll says, if you want to explain your vote please do but leave out site endorsements.

[arallmuus]

Just like the poll says, if you want to explain your vote please do but leave out site endorsements.

Any options for 50 50 vote? perhaps you should add that. Good as in because people can test the site without having to deposit some amount. This only applied to a new site though there are many faucet lickers as well in a top dice sites.
Anyway the faucets amount are quite low, considering the trouble to get it into the minimum withdrawal needed for the sites, it will be not an option to say that it drains the casino.

P.S : Not everyone is lucky enough to win huge from just faucet

[Altcoin4life]

Just like the poll says, if you want to explain your vote please do but leave out site endorsements.

Any options for 50 50 vote? perhaps you should add that. Good as in because people can test the site without having to deposit some amount. This only applied to a new site though there are many faucet lickers as well in a top dice sites.
Anyway the faucets amount are quite low, considering the trouble to get it into the minimum withdrawal needed for the sites, it will be not an option to say that it drains the casino.

P.S : Not everyone is lucky enough to win huge from just faucet

Added 50/50 for you. Regarding the drain I should clarify that I'm speaking in terms of server resources.

[adolf84]

No dont use faucet for casino,. Because in my experience sometime free faucet in casino can make great llag/delay/error if i open casiono site from mobile..

[Tongkar]

A faucet I believe is a great idea if your interested in testing out a new casino or dice site to see if you enjoy the site enough to make a deposit. However not the best if your trying to make profit using a faucet.

[andolini82]

i like to have free roll more than free faucet, also every free money can being withdraw with a very low wage. Lol

[SyGambler]

Faucets are really good for testing the site
it could be really small money to test the site

but yes it may harm the site if the faucet gives really huge money
this will attract mainly freeloaders

[monbux]

It would be an obvious "good and bad" for me.  Like everything in life, there is balance.   There are people that got into bitcoin because of these free faucets.  There are others that just took a couple cents and left.  Whichever, IMHO it is 50/50.

[galbros]

Faucets are basically advertising for the site.  As long as the operator can avoid having it be botted, no mean feat, then players using the faucet provide some minimum level of activity and can populate the site's chat room.  I can see how this has some advantages.

The downside is that it often seems to create a "beggar" culture on the site.  I was a primedice faucet fan for awhile, but PD's chat has gotten a bit out of hand.

It seems a one time bonus or match play can be just as good as a faucet for promotional purposes.

Good Luck!

[arallmuus]

The downside is that it often seems to create a "beggar" culture on the site. 

AFAIK the begging behaviour isnt caused by faucet, most likely human nature of wanting something for free after seeing someone getting tipped on the site. This begging behaviour is also differ according to the mentality of each players. If the site enforce the rule of no begging strongly then this begging things wont occur often

[ticoti]

Of course are good!
Faucets help to test the site to users who are not decided and don't want to deposit before testing the games

[caskey4521]

Faucet is good because customers will experienced playing the site without risking anything other than their time. In the long run hopefully the users will be addicted playing and deposit bitcoins.

[bitbets]

I didn't vote because you didn't provide the answer I might give.

Faucets didn't ever pay me anything ever, though I tried on numerous occasions,

they wasted my time every time, so faucets are a total waste of time.

[unholycactus]

I would strongly prefer deposit bonuses as the house. Faucets doesn't help you keep customers or create cash flow.

[Light]

Just like the poll says, if you want to explain your vote please do but leave out site endorsements.

They're good for both the site user and the owner in all honesty. It's the same reason you'll see casinos and poker rooms offer bonuses and promotions - it helps to bring in new customers and maintain a userbase (even if they are only freerolling). Hopefully, you'll eventually convert them into a paying customer. In the meantime though, you can expect to lose a bit due to your faucet - but just as promotions have rules that minimise their losses (i.e. minimum number of bets, rollover etc), dice sites have minimum cashouts which tend to reduce how much they lose.

[fox19891989]

I vote for the first one, I like faucet, I have turned hundreds of faucet to 0.001+ btc, so it's a good try for the new sites, my dadice faucet is 7500 sat now, i have rolled on dadice for 1 and half month, and finally my faucet is strong now, not easy to increased my faucet.

I don't think faucet is bad for site, site owners can attract more users, and it's difficult to withdraw(generally 0.001btc withdrawal limit) from the 200-500 sat faucet if don't deposit.

[PenguinFire]

I would strongly prefer deposit bonuses as the house. Faucets doesn't help you keep customers or create cash flow.

This.  Plus people that use faucets to gamble are much more unlikely to actually deposit money and play.

[bitbaby]

I think Faucets are good for Casinos. It lets people who have not played at a casino test it without depositing anything and basically it keeps good cheap traffic coming to a site, which you'll see that sites who don't have faucets do struggle for. I don't think a lot of people are able to make something out of faucet funds, so whatever they claim they end up giving it back by gambling with it.

And some sites like PD have faucets which gets increased as a player achieves a wagering requirement and it helps the site differentiate  real players from freeloaders.

[josephno1]

Faucets are great for casinos!
They allow potential customers to get hooked up plus a person is very unlikely to win anything from a faucet since the odds always favor the house

[Altcoin4life]

I would strongly prefer deposit bonuses as the house. Faucets doesn't help you keep customers or create cash flow.

This.  Plus people that use faucets to gamble are much more unlikely to actually deposit money and play.

These are my thoughts as well. I wonder if all the faucet supporters would be so supportive if a faucet was just play money  vs. Bits of btc. Assuming they just want to try a site then they don't need actual money to do this.

My worry is faucets are creating a userbase of people just looking for hand outs vs. supporting the bitcoin casino economy and development.