@Highly competitive affiliate program with instant withdrawals:
How is that going to work? Gamblers will want to get the maximum edge and whales will definitely affiliate themselves, not matter how much hurdles you place.
Most of the competition is crowd-funded, meaning the house itself only gets to keep a small percentage of the profits (typically 10%).
PD is privately bankrolled, so they keep all the profits for themselves. That means they can afford things like signature campaigns, affiliate programs, etc. more easily than the competition.
Suppose the affiliate program offers 0.1% of a player's wagers to the affiliate, for life. That's only 10% of the profit the house expects to make from the player, but it's 100% of the profit a crowd-funded site would expect to make from them.
As I see it, that is the biggest problem with accepting "investments" on a dice site - it makes you much less profitable (as a percentage of turnover) than not doing so.
It's also an issue that marketing costs have to come out of those limited profits. Which is why I'm surprised that another investment dice site has a very competitive signature campaign.
As I recall, Just-Dice had only a very small give away when it first opened, .01 to 100 users or something like that, and that was it, and that was when btc was around 100 USD per coin.
And, as noted by MICRO, with investment sites you always run the risk of the operator Running Away with the Coins
TM. This was solved on Just-Dice by dooglus being exceptionally honorable.
Only ~ 3 days to go!
