We are posting our responses to the sugessted feedback here, rather than the campaign thread. First up:
Bet AmountsThe thing that I noticed being negative was that you only had a few options when betting as to the amount - 0.27 mBTC, 0.54 mBTC, 1 something mBTC or 2 or so mBTC. I think that people would like to choose their own bet amounts, especially with such awkward amounts. If you want to go with fixed bet amounts only, considering adding the function of changing the value of each credit, so that people can actually choose to bet higher if they want to. Also consider changing the bet amounts to ones in decimal increments.
Also I think it will be more appealing for gamblers if you can allow us to customize our own bets instead of the existing bets that we only have to choose from. Honestly I am not a high roller so I will prefer if I can customize bets depending on if I feel luck enough to bet high or low. Maybe just put a min. bet requirement like 10k satoshi. I'm sure that most gamblers will feel more confident to bet if they are fully free to choose what bet they will play with.
We have a very simple, very easy-to-use betting system. Unfortunately, it isn't currently customizable. We know this needs to become more flexible because not every player has the same notion of a "small" or "large" bet. We currently pin the lowest bet to something around $0.20 US, which leads to the "awkward" bet amounts.
Constraints:- As a mobile-focused site we want to ensure that we clearly present a few obvious buttons for bet amounts.
- Due to the progressive nature of games like Stack5, we have to limit the scale between the lowest and highest wager offered.
- Due to our finite bankroll, we have to limit the maximum bet on games with a huge potential payout (Video Poker can pay 800x)
Proposals:We intend to allow players to set their own betting scale by specifying their preferred minimum bet. This would allow us to keep the very simple buttons we currently show, but allow more advanced players to change the default amounts.
We are still debating whether this should be set
once on the player's account, or set (and remembered) separately on each type of game. By setting the scale independently, we could allow games like Blackjack to accept much higher wagers. On the other hand, setting the scale once on the player's account page is easier to understand and keeps all the settings together.
Community thoughts?