A killer of decent prize pots in pay to play bingo rooms that is.
I like to keep abreast of the free bingo games that are on offer at different sites and still think it is a great reward mechanism for loyal players. However, it is definitely starting to look like too much of a good thing is definitely bad for you. In this case it is bad for the pocket as I have noticed more and more that when free bingo is running at a site the prize pots in the normal bingo rooms take a tumble.
As the free bingo offers at site increases it is becoming more noticeable in my view that the cash prizes are falling. This isn’t down to the bingo sites taking a greater cut, but that the cash stakes are no longer there to bump up the prize pots as people play the free bingo sessions.
I would like to think that players will take part in the free bingo games while playing in the pay to play rooms, but this is proving not to be the case at a number of sites.
Sites like Wonder Bingo, Virgin Bingo and William Hill Bingo have very kindly been increasing their free bingo offering and the frequency that free bingo is available, but this can prove to be couterproductive it has been found.
The Wonder Bingo prize pots have been the most noticeable casualty, but Virgin Bingo also suffers, as does William Hill Bingo. The player numbers at Wonder Bingo have been growing nicely over the last few month and with it the prize pots on offer. However, a new evening free bingo room opened recently and almost overnight the numbers in the pay to play rooms fell.
Wonder Bingo has never been a bingo site to stand back and ignore a problem and has introduced certain limits to access and other features to interest paying players.
However, this sort of trend will probably soon see a reversal in the trend of free bingo being on offer as often as it is and I never thought I would say this, but I for one will be very pleased. Maybe free bingo should be left to the free bingo specialists like FreeBingo.co.uk and pay to play sites should be just that – let everyone stick to what they know best.
