To the people that have maybe tried both online and physical gambling, how do you perceive the socialization aspects of online gambling?
In my personal opinion: I think casinos that feature crypto gsmbling are somewhat lacking in terms of how players can communicate with each other. I get that some people that gamble online might actually want to avoid talking to other people, but what if you can only gamble online and still want do socialize a little bit?
When I tried sitting on live blackjack tables for example, the dealer would always introduce topics, as if he/she was told to keep talking. But it felt very repetitive and forced. The chat wasn't a good means to actually keep up a discussion. Out of the wight playwrs maybe one or two would reply with single words, and if you wrote something longer the dealer wouldn't have time to read it, respond and keep dealing at the same time anyway. So it was just a one sided back and forth, not a real discussion.
Are you in casino to socialize or you there to do 2+2 to get 4 or get -2? Or you are there to do 2+2 =fun. This is what I think gambling casino is all about in online casino, if you want to socialize there are other platforms like Telegram where people discussed about casino stuffs and have fun, I think Twitch is another place people socialize especially gamers and you can even make you of Discord, it is more fun in Discord as a gambler to chat and get to meet your friends that like the same games.
In other sites there is a single chat and it's so active that it's actually hard to follow, while there are thousands of players...
It's just my view that most online casinos could do many things to improve the social aspect of their sites. Not sure if there would be demand though.
I think Casino don't do this or make chatting too complex because of the extra space will require them to put those file. Imagine a casino as a platform been hosted with huge amount of money and then spend extra cost to fund this chatting, it wouldn't make sense to them.
The second reason might be for privacy and protection of each customers. They don't want a situation where one player will influence another person, they also don't want people information to be made available through their platform. It's better you do your social gambling outside the casino.