Rollin.io the most popular bitcoin gambling dice:
I always find reviewing dice sites a fun activity; especially if the site I’m testing provides an immersive, intelligently designed, entertaining experience. After spending a few hours with Rollin.io, I can say that a great many good chords were hit, but unfortunately that came with a price.
Fun but flawed
Let’s start with the design. If we’re talking looks, the site uses a pleasing combination of red, green, black, and yellow, which serves to improve the game’s ability to immerse you. The centre of the screen houses a number display which turns red or green to display wins and losses respectively. Its simplicity is its strong point: having all the information contained in the centre of the screen makes for instant feedback while playing, allowing your brain to process wins and losses much faster than some other sites I’ve tried. This means you can play at a remarkably fast pace, and again serves to make the experience more immersive.
Functionally, the site’s design works very well. All required buttons are laid out near the centre, meaning your eyes don’t need to stray too far away from the central point of interest (the numbers) when making a bet or changing a parameter. Rollin.io supports keyboard controls too, but these are never properly tutorialised and the button choice isn’t as intuitive as I would have liked.
Also, the game desperately needs a full-screen mode. The design is incredibly focused, but occasionally distractions can get through. Having a full-screen mode would make for a completely immersive experience: just you and your numbers.
There’s not much more I can say about the betting itself: it works solidly (although I did encounter the occasional lag spike that interrupted my flow), and it’s relatively standard. What I can mention, though, is the “Robot”.
Rollin.io allows you to automate your bets using its Robot system. While automating dice sites is no new development, Rollin’s Robot has a nice range of parameters to mess around with, which makes the game that little bit more personalised and intimate. I do have one small complaint though: the speed at which the Robot makes bets needs to be customisable. I lost the majority of my funds to an incident where the Robot was making a bad string of bets and it was going too fast for me to stop it in time. It’s a minor complaint, and it may have been avoided had I played differently, but having the ability to edit the speed at which my bets were made would have made the situation a little less frustrating.
The site also features a leveling system, which rewards players for making large numbers of lifetime bets. There’s a total of 11 levels to achieve, each offering a progressive reduction in house edge and a progressive increase in money you’re able to claim from the faucet. While this is nice, the incentives it provides are not worth the amount of time and money they require. For example: in order to reach Level 6 (which reduces house edge to 0.90% and increases faucet allowance to 0.04500 mBTC), one must have wagered 50 Bitcoins in their Rollin.io lifetim
Mobile mayhem
I’m saddened to say that the difference between playing Rollin.io on Desktop and Mobile is massive, and not in a good way. The site is abysmally optimised for mobile devices.
While testing the site on my mobile, the scren size made it borderline-unusable. Getting the entire site in frame when in Landscape Mode isn’t possible at all, and framing the site in Portrait Mode makes the buttons so small it’s impossible to play with ease. Playing with my phone also broke the drop-down menus, meaning that I couldn’t sign out of my account when I was done without some very awkward manouvering.
Playing on the iPad wasn’t exactly a joyful experience either. The site was framed correctly but the bet multiplier buttons were small enough to lead to a few frustrating sausage finger moments. Using the iPad also lead to some more severe lag spikes, some of which lasted upwards of ten seconds. With regards to the drop-down menus, they were completely broken on the iPad and no amount of awkward touchscreen manouvers were able to fix them. Suffice to say my account remains logged in on the iPad, and I can’t see that changing any time soon.
In conclusion
Rollin.io is a frustrating case. On one hand, there are many things I like about it but on the other hand each aspect that I like has a negative counterpart. I always find myself saying “well this aspect is done really well BUT this and this were really annoying after a while” throughout this review. Nothing was glaringly wrong with the site apart from the dismal mobile optimisaton, it’s just that it’s plagued with all these little annoyances that ate away at the experience for me after a while.
I don’t think I could play this game long-term, and I don’t know that I would recommend for anyone to do so unless they’re very good at looking past a lot of minor blemishes. It’s beautifully and intelligently designed, but its flaws are too numerous for me to justify playing again.
All The Best:
Amine ;)
All The Best:
Amine ;)