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Originally Posted by jeanchris
@Colette I hope you guys are aware that softplaying between friends will be even easier to do with this new hand history format. I have to be honnest I am more paranoid then ever playing high stakes on party not becaue I don't have a hud workimg, but because I am not able to review my hands after the session and see if there's something wrong, yes I know I can see my hands but I can't see against who the hand was!
Nobody wil ever know what is going on, you can't analyze player's play between each other in your database if you suspect something etc...
You just open the door for ppl to cheat/collude even more.
I think everybody agree that this decision that Party took doesnt protect the fish, doesnt generate more action, open the door for cheaters, for programmer to make more money selling illegal software that party will NEVER be able to catch... and most likely small stakes will be infect with bot's if thats not already the case.
I think you should work with HEM/PT4 to limit hud's to basic stats, but changing the whole hand history system is just a massive mistake, or even to tell them it's not gonna be allow that any HUD show's up on a table during play.
I remember a few years ago when you guys try to increase the rake and revert those change after a week listening to player's protesting... its not too late to do it with hand history's
It's just not a great experience playing a mix of tables at the moment - eg FF tables and other. The FF tables have the proper stats, the others don't - but you can click to make all player stats sessions stats on those tables. Then players start to leave and others join, so you still have session stats but you don't know if they are meaningful. And that's before you consider that you can't look over hands, and before you get annoyed that some people probably have already got software to get full stats.
Such a bad solution by Party, but I'd guess they won't change it, so I'd expect a gradual move away from the site for many regs (after the promo anyway). However, they may get more than replaced by bots. I'd hate to think that this is the Party plan, but I really wouldn't rule it out given how negative the feedback was.