Gaming Experience
Playing casino games in the Metaverse is not what you get on regular casino sites. Instead of a static site with a bunch of menus, you’re fully immersed in the gaming experience. The best virtual casinos are designed to resemble the Las Vegas strip, a virtual land littered with gaming and entertainment venues. Instead of launching a website or an app, you move your avatar to get around and enter the desired casino.
Creating an account at these casinos and meta spaces proved to be a smoother experience than most online casinos offer. You won’t need to give out much information when you sign up; some casinos even let you play as a guest if you just want to window-shop. Granted, you won’t be getting any bonuses and loyalty rewards, but so far, a decentralized casino sounds better than a regular one.
The whole experience is, really, akin to visiting a casino in real life. You’ll be greeted by the hosts, dealt cards, and seated at roulette tables by real people working there, so it’s much more personal than something a typical online casino can offer. Even more, none of those games run in a separate app, but right in front of you, further adding to the immersion.
The game selection doesn’t differ much from the traditional casinos. Of course, the biggest Metaverse casinos can offer a much better variety of games and more tables and machines to play at. Since this is all running in virtual reality, casino owners have infinite space and total freedom to make the gaming experience out of this world – either with mind-bending themes or games that just wouldn’t be possible in a physical casino.
Player Customization
Considering every player is represented by an avatar, casinos offer detailed character creation. Some items are free, some can be purchased as an NFT stored on a blockchain, so you can resell them to other players when you want to switch up your looks. Popular Metaverse casinos usually start you with a set of pre-made, generic avatars. You pick one, go to customization, and either make it look like you, or let your imagination run wild. Your avatar’s traits aren’t set in stone, so you can rebuild it later on.
Banking Options
On the more serious side of things, you’ll at one point try playing for cash at any casino, whether it’s website-based or in the Metaverse. As mentioned, you won’t need your debit card, PayPal, or any other, traditional payment method. Every casino in the Metaverse exclusively operates with cryptocurrencies. You’ll need to have a loaded crypto wallet the casino of your choice accepts. That wallet can double as an authentication method for logging into the Metaverse, so nobody could steal your account.
Still, depositing and withdrawing money works the same as in any online casino. You visit the cashier, usually a location within the casino, and then select whether you want to reload your account or cash out. Right now, the processing times for withdrawals are similar to online casinos, although with less ID verification required.
Reliability
With everyone racing to build the biggest Metaverse casino, one question arises among casino fans that want to try out this new way of playing their favorite games: Reliability. More specifically, whether they could trust the casinos to respect their wins and use fair mechanics in their games, as well as pay out their dues.
These casinos run on blockchain technology, the same technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. This means that every piece of information is secure from tampering.
On top of that, these casinos often offer players to partake in the governing process, basically giving them the option to influence the development of the online Metaverse casino.The player’s voice is louder at these casinos than anywhere else.
It all sounds great so far, but you should be aware of a couple of downsides. First of all is the use of cryptocurrencies. As you probably know, cryptos are still volatile, so their value can change at a whim. Also, all of these casinos are young startups, so there can be hiccups on the tech and customer support side.
Licenses and Regulations
As with many online casinos with cryptocurrencies, gaming in the Metaverse isn’t regulated, at least not yet. The authorities that usually regulate casinos have yet to enter this new gaming frontier.
Still, that doesn’t mean these casinos can operate without a license. They’re still a form of gambling, so they usually hold a valid Curacao Gaming License, allowing them to operate and process money. You can find this information in the website’s footer through which you launch the Metaverse app.
The future will definitely be very interesting for online Metaverse casinos. Depending on how things develop and what the software becomes capable of, casino owners might no longer be forced to block certain countries, as everyone will be part of the Metaverse. Additionally, players can already have their say in the way these casinos run, either by staking into them, earning by playing, or joining public votes. In the Metaverse, everyone can own a piece of land or a business, so it’s a matter of time until the industry catches up.