I think you are looking at it the wrong way and my point that gambling is entertainment counters your other points.
It's not a counter to
any of my points, or even on-topic to my claim that time has value. It's a red herring. I'm saying that "time has value", you are saying that "gambling is fun", that is not a topical reply to my claim.
We are a gambling site with a generous faucet.
I
agree that you are a gambling site and I most certainly
disagree that $2 per year is
generous. As for the changes coming. It will be interesting to see how all of the changes (whatever they might be) scale and effect each other and whether or not the combination will be an improvement for the user base, both the users and you, or mainly just for you. We shall see.
If you play the free roll on your mobile you don’t need to log in and takes seconds to play, so the relation between effort and reward is superior than walking to the store and picking up change.
Superior? We are talking the equivalent of maybe 1 and half cents per day if you are aggressive with the rolls and you stay away from gambling in which case you will likely have nothing. One quarter on the ground is better than rolling 6 times per day on this site for a month. You have every right to determine for yourself what is superior, but I don't see it.
Also, you can get some big prices, not only the minimum, so on average it is going to be more than $2, and if you are lucky much more than that.
What you will *likely* get.What you "can" get has very little basis in terms of what you will
likely get. You will likely get nothing because you will likely use all of the free satoshi to gamble with and then when that isn't enough you will likely gamble with your own BTC and then lose it too. That is why this site still exists, because it still earns. If it did not, then the site would no longer be here and the only way it can earn is when it takes BTC from players that keep losing at gambling.
What you are unlikely to winThe opposite of what is likely, is that you will win. But it's very easy to see that the odds are stacked against everyone, and that is how gambling works. That's nothing alarming. Then there is the point of whether or not those claiming to have won really won or not. If I accept it at face value and believe everyone that claims to have won $200 or more, then it's still a small enough number to count on two hands because very few people have made the claim (last I checked, it's been a while). I certainly have my own experience to go by and in that case I have never rolled anything that pays above the minimum and I have never won the lottery and I have never won the hi/lo in a way that kept me ahead unless I just rolled a few times and am willing to accept a few more satoshi (which is safe way to double the minimum for each roll btw.. but you have to stop when ahead and have to be content with a super tiny win) and I have never rolled 8888. Biased? Sure.
What you can be assured to win, conditionallySo what's left? The middle road... the only road that is guaranteed, assuming the site stays up, then that guarantee is the faucet. What can you expect with that... well, with 6 rolls per day over the course of a year, about enough to withdraw 30,000 satoshi (presently), or $2/yr. That's
4380 clicks with one click captcha and 1 click roll. But this isn't how the site was intended to be used, it wasn't intended for everyone to go there and get $2 every year and do nothing else, it is intended to lure gamblers and part them with their money, and in the absence of gamblers it is intended to teach people to be gamblers with the faucet money and then part
them with their money.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not telling anyone what to do, when to gamble, when not to gamble, what's fun or not. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not they are entertained and for what reasons. I'm entertained by the perceptions held about this site and pointing out that this site benefits the site owners at a ratio that would probably make any Casino operator in Vegas jealous. If someone can get lucky and win $200 or more, cool, I'm happy for them. But I've never seen
proof of a payout of $200 or better. And most people lose money here.