The problems with the retreats go back a long way and have nothing to do with Lightlord's alleged illness (when I say alleged, it's not that I believe it or not, it's that I have no way of verifying it).
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I somehow got involved in this whole drama because I was the only DT member at the time (in 2019) who tagged lightlord for the campaign mismanagement, so I've taken an interest whenever problems with him flare up--at least as far as the campaign payments go, and there haven't been any issues until recently that I know of (but I haven't exactly been monitoring the Bitvest campaign thread).
This is something that is commented on a lot in the bitvest thread. In the end people end up getting paid, but we are in the same situation as with the signature campaigns, people request a withdrawal and it can take weeks to get the money:
I wasn't aware of that fact, and if that's true--and I have no reason to doubt you--there's no excuse for it. There are a lot of crypto casinos out there that function like clockwork if I'm not mistaken, and keeping a hot wallet filled should never be an issue for one that presumably takes in a lot of crypto. That could be done with the right programming of the casino's software, no?
I would bet that that is how it is run
I wouldn't take the other side of that bet, sadly. But I think that's the only explanation for why the hot wallet would continue to be empty. Knowing that, why on earth would anyone continue to play on a site run like that? Maybe some of Bitvest's clientele could answer that for me.