You answered your own question. A higher guarantee presents more value and attracts more players.

Just posted BB out of position in a ring game...again. Wait for BB is checked on my settings. No "Wait for BB" checkbox was available at the table. This and the stud bring-in glitch cost players money.
2 weeks now and these money losing glitches have not been fixed.
Chris and Ryan and other reps have been very helpful but their bosses have not provided the support to get these issues resolved.
I play much less now, missing out on VIP points and losing my level status. I would play more if I felt confident that problems were fixed. Its a shame because I really enjoyed the stud game. FWIW, I have not seen the problem in a Stud Tourney.
Not to be a DB, but these issues have gone from understandable and tolerable to incomprehensible and unplayable.

I have posted this in one of the other update threads, but have not seen anyone else having this issue and its not fixed.

In Triple Draw tournies and ring games, the box which displays the number of draws each player has made is not working correctly. They are supposed to show up in a box underneath the player box. Sometimes the box shows up, sometimes it doesn't, and the number of cards the player has drawn can show up correctly, but usually will show up under some other player's box.

They seem to get placed randomly, so if there are several people in the hand, you can get very frustrated trying to figure out where their drawing numbers are displayed.

Right now the only way to know what's going on is to try & follow the drawing numbers in the chat box. Also the drawing box and the number of cards drawn have been shrunk down so small as to be almost invisible, even when they are in the correct place.

I know that the amount of players in these games is small compared to Hold'em and Omaha, but this information is primary to one's game strategy in Triple Draw, and it's almost impossible to play without it. Please fix!

Fish care!

When guarantees are small in relation to the buy in some people shy away from playing, at least it seems that way. I could be wrong but I think softer players are drawn to games with higher guarantees in relation to the buy ins.

Use this for an example:

The games with no guarantees like the $5.50 NL tonight has 6 runners but the $5.50 with a $600 guarantee has 116. I just think a lot of players seem to prefer games with guarantees and think the drastic guarantee reductions Merge has made is hurting the game volume.

i laughed as i read this, and i agree, nice one pointing this out

yep, it struck me as i read the post above - fish care, just didn't really think of that.

Still no timebank fix for my $5 / $10 supers :| kinda lame

Please tell me you guys are fixing the massive focus stealing via new tables / popups and will be allowing all such things to be disabled?

Anyone else have a problem with their bet blocking their chipstack when faced with a raise and have no way of telling what he/she has left behind? that happens to me alot and really sucks cuz i cant tell if i have $1 or $1000 left behind

This has been mentioned a bunch, it's a problem and Merge knows it according to Ryan or Chris. Until it's fixed you can change your display to round out stack sizes.

Setting ----> Display Settings ----- > Display Multi-Stack Chips ----> never

It'll round the stacks to like 2.5K which is kind of a pain where you need to see exact sizes but it's the only way to fix the issue for now.

Back to the guarantees, I'd guarantee you if Merge put 2 games with an $11 buy in, freezeout and set one gtd at 2K and another at 5K the 5K would meet the gtd and 2K would just barely make it if not even have overlay. People want to feel like they are getting the most value for their buy in and they prefer games where 1st pays at least $1K. Right now there are 8400 players on Merge which is probably a few hundred more than peak time during the time Merge was closed to the US yet the guarantees are lower.

Agree with this, guarantees are absurdly low now and this is the exact opposite of what Merge needs to be doing to get the traffic back up. You guys screwed up and rolled out a bad update and lost a lot of your players, and now maybe they're coming back and seeing every guarantee being half what it was a couple of weeks ago. You're only making people less and less interested in playing, including people like me who would normally be grinding daily.

My suggestion is to put the guarantees back to something reasonable (perhaps 75% of the prior values instead of 50%) and eat a little bit of overlay for a couple weeks. Right now these pathetic guarantees are killing the tournament action :|

Oh and I played sngs today, first time in ages, and the HH wasn't working and I had some lag issues. I haven't had any lag issues in MTTs since the upgrade fwiw.

Had the sit out next BB button checked twice today and still posted. Person to my right sat out and then I posted a BB.

I'm still randomly posting blinds when I sit down, even though I have wait till BB always selected.

This really is the kind of bug where they should be taking the software down completely untill it's fixed. Looks like they think it's not a big deal however.

With the last update all my tags changed. Now that one has got me ticked off. All of my Fish tags were changed to Sharks, all of my Rocks were changed to Live Ones, Champions were changed to Bluffers. My other tags changed as well. That was a year's worth of tagging. Thousands of tags. Is there any way for me to bulk retag them?

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! It's really bad business wise for Merge to drop gtds like this. Lock players are complaining something awful about the software and the customer service and many of them are trying to get money onto to Carbon or one of the Merge skins. Do something to attract them to back instead of dropping gtds and giving them less reason to return.

Despite the software issues and bugs, which btw are typical with a major overhaul and if you guys will remember Stars even had issues when they made major upgrades to their software, Merge is still way better than Cake/Revolution. Lock has more than likely signed their death warrant with this stupid move and Merge can really pick up the slack if they'll make good sound business decisions instead of being scared to lose a few bucks in overlay.

Run some promotions to get the Lock players over to Merge and make it worth their while to make the move back. I guarantee you the MTT players are not at all happy with the software or the MTTs running on Revolution.

Right now I have been splitting all my MTT action between LOCK and Merge. Well a little more on LOCK, the GTDs are just retarded on Merge now.

Please up the GTDs so I can just play on Merge.