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Our business model uses a 5% house edge to fund a faucet, rewards program and lottery. When people ask about reducing the house edge I ask them which of those things we should remove to pay for it.
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How about all of them? I´d rather play on a site with a 1 % fixed house edge without
any of the mentioned features than at a site with a 5 % house edge that pays for these features.
Just imagine a newcomer to FreeBitco.in, who plays a few rounds without
even being aware of the rewards program or the lottery. He is essentially paying for
a service that he doesn´t even know about.
The bustabit FAQ puts it quite beautifully if you ask me:
Be extremely skeptical of generous reward programs, bonuses (e.g. deposit bonuses), affiliate programs and the likes.
The money comes from somewhere: you. Casinos often use these sorts of kick-back programs to distract you from their high house edge.
