Is free online bingo destined to last?

19th September 2009 10:48 AM

We don’t think there a single person who plays internet bingo sites regularly, who can say that the word 'free bingo' doesn’t make their ears twitch with even just a glimmer of excitement.  However, with every day that passes more and more bingo sites seem to be taking up the challenge of competing with various others by offering free bingo. If you look at free bingo from a different perspective you may soon be asking your self, 'is free online bingo destined to last?'

Costa Bingo is one site which offers a fantastic variety of free bingo rooms where all bingo in these rooms is completely free. If you look at the other aspects of the game at bingo sites who offer a large amounts of free bingo for real money, you will find that there are  downsides. Mainly being that  these free rooms are so busy, it is extremely difficult to get a win. The prizes for free bingo on the various bingo sites that offer it are naturally much lower, but also however small the prize, this free bingo must be funded from elsewhere.

A few of the bingo sites that we have looked around that offer a large amount of free bingo, seem to have smaller guaranteed jackpots on their special games. This could mean that this is how some of the free bingo is being funded. From experience I consider the jackpot games that can be played at various bingo sites to be just as important as free bingo and the chances are  that other people may feel the same. This in turn may encourage them to play the free bingo at a site like Cheeky Bingo and maybe play the larger games at a site which has bigger jackpots. Therefore Costa Bingo and other bingo sites like it, may not be getting the revenue they need from the big games to fund the free ones. Which leaves us all wondering if it really is a good thing and could it be the demise of some of the newer and smaller sites and even the free bingo altogether.

Written by Hannah Jones

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