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Originally Posted by CheckN0rris
Why is everybody always assuming that building a solid good pokersite (software client that is) is such a huge task and is very very hard if not impossible to do? I hear it all the time. The fact that stars is so much better than the competition is mostly because of failure of competitors I believe. Like how hard can it be ? a simple computer game or almost any other business/creative software would be much harder to build IMO.
Someone please inform me, is it really that hard to build a good poker client?
Its not the what the customer sees that is particularly hard, it is back end, traffic management, game integrity, etc etc etc, that is the hard stuff.
You compare say to a PC game. How many even AAA games (with $100 million budgets) get constantly hacked so that players can cheat. The Division is riddled with cheaters. If that happens in poker your site is dead in the water.
Same with server loading. For a PC game, waiting an extra 10s to get into a match with somebody or the server crashes and you lose your game, all that is annoying. If that happens in a poker tournament, again your rep is down the tubes pretty quickly.
None of this is impossible, but it is time consuming and time = money, and the competition I presume don't feel all the extra investment to make a 2016 looking client is worth the likely returns.
GL to Phil. If he is building from scratch, he is taking on a huge task, but I am sure he will give it 110%.