Steem has much more to offer and is offering much more then this at this exact moment.
Indeed.
Though with all the other great games and dapp that are emerging on Steem I don't see the risk, that the dice gambling games take over. Especially not Tavern Games which give their best to give a nice feeling (artworks, (very) basic story telling) to the players, is reasonably fair and (up to this point) are far from many other "bling bling, cash cash" games which I personally dislike as well.
Gambling dice games and random number generators like this are the lowest of low in terms of dapp development.
Thats why you have a million of them.
They're the simplest and easiest way to move steem from the pockets of the community into the pockets of devs who are more often then not anonimus like was the case with @magic.dice.
Magic dice that committed a swift exit scam and stole folks money.
Not saying that will happen with this dev but reason for caution especially when dealing with low effort development like this should be at a much higher level.
If I can make gambling dapp developers feel unwelcome even a bit and they avoid steem, I'd feel good about it.
Gambling transactions are almost completely worthless anyways. Most done by Bots running scripts.
No clue about what happened with @magic.dice, but it is not hard to trust you that he was a scammer.
Disagree on this one. Bots should only be feasible if you can win longterm. Which usually is not the case with gambling.
How about trying a different approach?
If you see some good elements within a new gambling dapp (like the graphics and setting in this one), tell the devs that you dislike gambling dapps very much but would like to see a different game using their strenghts.
Actually: @taverngames this is what I would suggest to the tavern as well: Hurry up and push the gambling games into the dark and shabby corner of the tavern and fascinate the players with different types of games :)
(btw. easy to say, as I already know that this is the plan of Thamrog, the Dwarf ;-))