It doesn’t take an expert in human behavior to understand people love to feel like they belong to a community. Who doesn’t enjoy spending time with people who share similar interests, goals and aspirations? When you find a person who gets as excited about your hobbies as you do, it’s easy to bond and form a friendship fast.
As we all have started to spend maybe too much time online, playing video games or trying our hand at an online casino, our collective want to be part of an in-group hasn’t gone anywhere. Thankfully, online hubs of excitable and friendly casino gamers have risen up in New Orleans and many other countries as people have found each other. So, besides wanting to make friends, what other reasons might be behind this rise?
Communities of casino gamers share what they know
Friends are useful to have because they can point you in the right direction when it comes to finding a good online platform to join. If a player from Canada, for example, wants to find the best possible place to sign up at, an online community based in that location will definitely have answers. These player opinions can make it so quick and easy to join the online gaming community that suits your play style and interests best.
If you join a community you’ll quickly find a friend, or thousands of friends, who will eagerly tell you all they’ve previously found out for free. Often, you won’t even have to contribute to a discussion yourself. Sometimes, simply reading discussions can give you all the information you could ever want or need. When you listen to people who already know their way around the scene, you’ll find that getting stuck into games that bring you excitement takes no time at all. Asking a fellow gaming fan for tips and tricks on how to succeed at pretty much any casino game will help you play better and maybe even win a little more often.
Finally, internet communities who share a love of the same gaming pastime will also probably know where the best bonuses are found and which platforms offer the best loyalty programs or daily rewards. Listening to pointers from people who have been around the longest might help a newcomer stretch their casino gaming budgets out a little further.
Narrowing decisions in a sea of choices
It has, in some ways, become much more of a headache to find a great platform to sign up at. Some platforms might look really good on the surface, but actually end up having annoying interfaces or a slow customer support service. There’s just so much to choose from and every online gaming space, even really good, award-winning ones, is a little different, too. Community discussions and threads can take lots of the guess-work out of learning which site might be perfectly ideal for you.
Let’s say that you’re a big fan of slot games with gemstone themes. These kinds of games are a major draw for you and you want to find a platform that offers a bunch of different options to play the way you want to play online. If you ask a local community for recommendations based on this specific fact, members of the community who also like crystal-themed titles will narrow down your options by telling you about their preferred spots. In a way, this is kind of like how local New Orleans communities of music fans might share where and when free live events, like the Free Fridays Concert Series, are happening with anyone who asks.
A sense of belonging
There’s nothing better than feeling like you’re surrounded by people who just get you. When you find your tribe, you feel heard and understood without judgment. Online communities for pretty much every interest and niche have become widely and wildly popular for this exact reason. According to some reports, up to 76% of internet users admit to being part of a small community on social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram or X.
Ever heard of BookTok? That online community has grown at an incredible rate and members love it because they can chat about incredibly niche topics with people who know exactly what they’re talking about. Plus, get constant streams of new book recommendations whenever they like. Online casino communities are similar in this way. If you need a quick pointer, or have a question about a specific gaming title or an entire platform, all you have to do is ask.
Shaping the industry: Communities have power
While it can be a little challenging to find statistics surrounding how influential online casino communities can be. But if we look at how much BookTok has influenced book sales and that industry as a whole, it stands to reason that the largest casino gaming communities might be able to influence iGaming platforms in some way too. As more people come together and let their preferences become known, it only makes sense that savvy casino platforms will listen. So, if you have ideas about how platforms could change, transform or otherwise improve, join a community and let that opinion be voiced. If many others agree with you, your idea could end up changing the scene as we all know it for the better.
