Re: ReelDice.com - The Bitcoin Dice Industry meets change [EDITED]
I have a very good grasp of what provably fair is 
I've been betting since 2013 and played on the vast majority of the dice sites that exist
and I never called your site scam ,I said dice sites that offer deposit bonuses are strongly associated with scam (and it is my personal opinion ,not a generally known fact)
simply because there were several dice sites that offered bonuses and all of them are offline , many gone rogue
example:duckdice got lot of flak for it and the owner is wearing red tag still and stopped offering bonuses , you can search the forum yourself for the full story if you want to
oh and 2% house edge is what makes all the difference , with 1% house edge and 50x wagering requirement it is too easy for a good dicer to achieve the rollover and withdraw
I've been betting since 2013 and played on the vast majority of the dice sites that existand I never called your site scam ,I said dice sites that offer deposit bonuses are strongly associated with scam (and it is my personal opinion ,not a generally known fact)
simply because there were several dice sites that offered bonuses and all of them are offline , many gone rogue
example:duckdice got lot of flak for it and the owner is wearing red tag still and stopped offering bonuses , you can search the forum yourself for the full story if you want to
oh and 2% house edge is what makes all the difference , with 1% house edge and 50x wagering requirement it is too easy for a good dicer to achieve the rollover and withdraw
Yes, I've read about what happened to duckdice. And I insist, it's all a matter of not handling things properly. I started working in online casinos in late 1999. You know 888casino today? Well, back then, they were known as CasinoOnline, and they had a scandal related to bonuses worth about $250k. They never paid those players, claiming bonus abuse. The scandal eventually quieted down and they went on to sponsor those famous tattoos in boxing I'm sure you've heard about. They handled it badly and went a couple years with red flags. But eventually made it huge. Duckdice will too if they do it right. Not making the players happy is not the way to go about it. But you can't make everybody happy, impossible. But you can make things just, and right.
I also once saw a casino where a player broke their bank. The owner called him up and they came to a payment arrangement which allowed the casino to continue and the player to collect. This was a $400k win. My point is that every situation can be fixed, it takes the will of both parties to achieve that. But it mostly takes the will of the casino to ensure that the player is tended to. Sometimes, it just takes the player being offered unhindered contact to upper management to make a huge difference in how things play out. After all, we're all just people. It's not hard, communication is always key.
As far as bonuses go, and from the research we've done on dice sites, there are no experienced operators that know the bonus structures that also know how to run the numbers. It's like they are pulling bonus structures out of their asses and no wonder they get bit, the numbers have to match. One of the very first things we built was a game simulator, so we could run millions of spins under different conditions and situations to see how the bonus structure and the actual game behaved. We have run billions of hands on our game, and I can tell you that yes, we may get wiped out by some lucky players, but we have no intention of going away if god forbid that ever happened, we will make every attempt to remain in business, and succeed. At least as long as I'm around.
I should mention also that the owners have been around about the same length of time as me, and we have many years of combined experience. i can't be sure, but to me, personally, this seems like a project that has a real good chance of success. Here's hoping that I'm right.