Blogs and Forums. Additional Features in Online Casinos

[Alphakilo]

There are online casinos that have a blog where their clients or potential clients can turn, to read gambling related articles without leaving the website. There are also online casino websites that have its own forum for their clients like a community interaction.

In addition, there are the ones that do not have any of these features. While  some of us may just want to sign up and start playing immediately, it is not so for others. Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

[Queentoshi]

Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

Unless you are a gambler who cares about community involvement, most gamblers are interested in just coming online and playing their favorite games. They are not too concerned with being in a forum with other gamblers on the same platform or reading news from the casino blogs.
These additional features added by some casinos are mainly to make a casino more customer friendly, and to make gamblers spend longer time on their platform, and always see reasons to come back.

[Oshosondy]

While  some of us may just want to sign up and start playing immediately, it is not so for others. Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

I do not care about anything like forum or a place of interaction directly on a casino. All I care is a gambling site to be reputable, having good services, like fast withdrawal and crypto support.

[Nwada001]

What I care most about is the casino that will give me better service with respect to deposit and withdrawal and have the kind of games I'm interested in. Those other features can just be an added advantage.
 
Although I want a casino where it is possible to have some kind of social interaction between me and other gamblers, not just in my region but also aside, so that we can share ideas and other forms of the games that we share an interest in, if I see such a casino with those features, I won't allow it to blind me to check on other things, but I will really give it a try as it's another means to attract and keep customers.

[famososMuertos]

There are two cases.

1.- Traditional gaming casinos:
Royalties and prizes that are awarded in these forums, for example bc.game, has its own forum, in which they are very active in terms of promotions.  Some of that is seen here in Games & Rounds.

2.-Poker:
In the case of poker I would say that at a beginner level it is essential, there are casinos that have forum, where they even teach how to play/gambling, they have leagues, etc.

Finally, it's something that has to do with your level of experience in the game, and then with your level of desire to learn and in the process take some royalties.

[dothebeats]

Normally, I'd just go towards a forum such as bitcointalk when I want to learn more about gambling strategies, news, updates, and just to hang out. If the platform has a trollbox, that's more than enough for my consumption and I can get answers from the people or to the community moderators themselves directly in a fast and more efficient manner compared to forums. Blogs are okay too, but that's something I rarely read because if I want to get updates on a crypto casino, I'll just go here on this forum and get my questions answered if I have further questions on whatever update they may have for users.

[alastantiger]

Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

No, at all. I don't see the reason. All I care about it the Terms and Conditions, AML policy, FQA. Once I read these documents I do not need any other feature. Maybe a beginner would but as someone who didn't grow up seeing these features on most online casinos, I learned to carry on my business of signing up and playing without putting these features into consideration. Besides, I am already on a gambling community, I don't need another one.

[BABY SHOES]

There are casino sites that have forums, the one I know is stake.com everyone or stake customers can interact on the forum.

I agree with the others, where the reputation of the casino is the most important about the features of the casino will definitely attach importance to what is needed there is also a matter of articles that read without dying this site is still less attractive to clients.

[Fiatless]

Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

If those blogs have information that I am interested in learning, I would definitely spend some time reading them. Some blogs in these casinos could contain some lessons that will make you a good gambler, I think it is worth reading. I am not a fan of joining communities, so this feature in casinos doesn't attract me. I prefer to play games and contact the support staff if I have any issues. One of the reasons why I don't like interactions on social channels is to avoid scams.

Nevertheless, I don't care about any of these features while selecting a casino because other factors such as reputation, effective customer support, privacy, bonuses, and fairness matter more to me.

[passwordnow]

There are online casinos that have a blog where their clients or potential clients can turn, to read gambling related articles without leaving the website. There are also online casino websites that have its own forum for their clients like a community interaction.

In addition, there are the ones that do not have any of these features. While  some of us may just want to sign up and start playing immediately, it is not so for others. Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

No but it's a plus if the casino has that. Like for stake, they've got their own forum. But who doesn't have nowadays? a sub-reddit can be its own forum but I get the idea without leaving the website but if it's going to be more popular than the one that they've made then it's best to just stick to that sub-reddit of their casino. It's not really a factor though but I think the advantage is that we're already here in bitcointalk, the threads from the casinos in here have its own community to help and maintain it and that's why the most known have their own representatives.

Otherwise, this isn't a matter of concern of the other casinos. But, just take a look at the most reputable ones. They are not ignoring the boards and threads here especially their announcement threads, it's also an outlet for them to share promos and as well as read the thoughts and complaints of their customers. That's why for someone, this is an important thing but as I've said, we've got the upperhand because many of the popular casinos are already here and we don't have to register elsewhere just to convey messages to them if the on-site support isn't replying yet.

[Wexnident]

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For blogs, definitely not. The only blogs I'd ever probably read are about bug exploits, framework changes, and stuff related to that. What do they even write with casino blogs anyway? About how they managed to suck x amount of money from their y amount of customers?

Forum wise I think I'd participate though. A lot better than a blog at least since it provides interaction between various users, maybe even admins and casino owners if they join in. Also opens up an open discussion on different topics like bug fix, exploits, site changes and stuff like that.

[AmoreJaz]

There are casino sites that have forums, the one I know is stake.com everyone or stake customers can interact on the forum.

I agree with the others, where the reputation of the casino is the most important about the features of the casino will definitely attach importance to what is needed there is also a matter of articles that read without dying this site is still less attractive to clients.

One way or another, forum or social media channels will give some information that you can't find over the net. Like for example, their promos and other ongoing contests, if you are not actively accessing their site itself, you can read it via their social media channel. So once you stumbled it in their socmed, it will give you reason to access the site to further check the ongoing promos.

Reputation is indeed a vital consideration when it comes to long-term relationship with casino or bookie. That is, if you are a regular gambler who wants to have a go-to casino or bookie. Because in this case, you will feel you are in your comfort zone and no problem will arise from your games if you are with this gambling site.

[Odusko]

I think, casinos have tried as much as possible to always enlightened and inform their clients and some of them go to that length of trying to bring gambler's together in chat room or even forum so as to discuss and share information with one another, and also admin give out information from such forums or chat group, almost all the casinos have this features.
If you checked the ratio of the effectiveness of this features to the gambler and also how it help the casino to pass out information and education to their clients such features is most needed, and not only casinos that have such features even exchange have similar features too, because of the importance of information and awareness building.

[acroman08]

Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

no, I don't consider these features when assessing or selecting a casino to play at, while it could be nice to have that feature I can also easily go to a gambling blog site or forum that I always use. For me, it's not as important as the things that I am looking for in a casino, I can live gambling in a casino that does not have these features. I would rather go to a casino that focuses on the things that are important instead of having these features but are lacking in other things that I am looking for.

[_act_]

Although I want a casino where it is possible to have some kind of social interaction between me and other gamblers, not just in my region but also aside, so that we can share ideas and other forms of the games that we share an interest in, if I see such a casino with those features, I won't allow it to blind me to check on other things, but I will really give it a try as it's another means to attract and keep customers.

What I can like social interaction for is if I have problem, I will be able to ask about it on the social feature of the gambling site but since I have been gambling on gambling sites, the sites are easy and not too technical to ask a question about. The problem I have can not be solved by other people except the customer care of the gambling site and that makes something like that to be useless for me. I prefer to only be gambling on the gambling site.

[Agbamoni]

Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

Unless you are a gambler who cares about community involvement, most gamblers are interested in just coming online and playing their favorite games. They are not too concerned with being in a forum with other gamblers on the same platform or reading news from the casino blogs.
These additional features added by some casinos are mainly to make a casino more customer friendly, and to make gamblers spend longer time on their platform, and always see reasons to come back.

Try reading your what you have said again, does it make any sense to you? Who else will visit a casino site if the person is not a gambler or you want to tell me that some persons just mistakenly jump into a casino website by mistake.

Let me put it this way, the world is changing and most online platforms in the different areas like gambling, health, luxury to mention a few are not just concerned about providing their service to people only. They now understand the power of community building. I don't want to say it's the new trend because it has been going on for some time now. The idea of the community is to keep the user active in the platform even after they are done with what they came for.

[Potato Chips]

I do think it's a plus since they do giveaways there as well lol but I don't think it has a heavy influence in me 🤔

When it comes to forums, I actually prefer it if it's not owned by the casino and a complete third party where they don't have powers like modifying any core stuff thus, bringing more authenticity in the conversation. On top off my head, great examples are bitcointalk and casino.guru.

If you tell me a casino has good reputation and keep a close ties in those kind of communities, for sure, it will have a great influence in me.

[Davidvictorson]

Although I want a casino where it is possible to have some kind of social interaction between me and other gamblers, not just in my region but also aside, so that we can share ideas and other forms of the games that we share an interest in, if I see such a casino with those features, I won't allow it to blind me to check on other things, but I will really give it a try as it's another means to attract and keep customers.

The engagements there will be strictly around the gambling website, issues and fixes, new games and all. Even their support will have reduced work as I like to think that most of the issues that do not require sending an email can be sorted out from members of the casino website forum. It is also a plus for the casinos as they can send promotional packages, bonus and all to their forum as a pinned message. Some casino may not have this feature because it may require additional manpower and increased operational cost. That's why this feature may just absent. And new customers do not seem to mind.

[Ojima-ojo]

Although I want a casino where it is possible to have some kind of social interaction between me and other gamblers, not just in my region but also aside, so that we can share ideas and other forms of the games that we share an interest in, if I see such a casino with those features, I won't allow it to blind me to check on other things, but I will really give it a try as it's another means to attract and keep customers.

The engagements there will be strictly around the gambling website, issues and fixes, new games and all. Even their support will have reduced work as I like to think that most of the issues that do not require sending an email can be sorted out from members of the casino website forum. It is also a plus for the casinos as they can send promotional packages, bonus and all to their forum as a pinned message. Some casino may not have this feature because it may require additional manpower and increased operational cost. That's why this feature may just absent. And new customers do not seem to mind.

Davidvictorson you are very right with your statement because when you belong to a gambling sites forum or group, you will be open to alot of information regarding to the games and the site at the same time, this is because from players discussions alot of questions will be asked and answered as well, and that will go a long way in to keep the Gamblers informed and at the same time help gambler's to solve issues that could have ordinarily make them to reach the team via email and having to wait to get a response.


Communication is very important and for gambler's communicating with a fellow gambler make your understand better mostly when the question borders on general experience of the casino in question.

[Bitinity]

Do you by chance consider these features when assessing and selecting which casinos to join and play on?

No, this feature is just an additional feature provided by the casino to give their players a place to interact with other players. This feature is usually come later once the casino has many players. Some people may consider this feature to choose a casino if there are some great offers in the forum such as regular giveaways, tournaments, etc. Of course if there are also many gamblers who do not care about it at all because their main purpose is just to gamble.