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Originally Posted by Sectral
I really liked the concept of a company like Blizzard offering the current service they use for their WoW. I thought about tweaking the concept a little. Something more like Blizzard offers a poker room, but the only way to play in the game is purchasing their Blizzard chips. Blizzard take for example a 5 - 10% cut on chips purchased with a cap at 1 - 5k +.
The player is then able to play at any of the limits available. Now to withdraw, The player proceeds to sell the chips back to Blizzard and they yet again take a 5 - 10% fee at a certain cap.
No rake is taken ingame. Rake Free (We can dream for that day to happen)
Fish/recreational players won't be concerned about the fees as they are basically buying chips to play poker with, Almost like the Zynga type Poker site style.
Grinders will benefit by playing for periods of time while contributing by withdrawing on regular basis.
A monthly fee could be applied to regular users who play x amount of hands to provide additional revenue from grinders towards the economy.
This is just a basic concept I came up with, Yall can tweak away at it.
This is a great concept. It's similar to what do it right suggested.
It eliminates the rake while no real money is transferred. What I suggest for tweaking is:
1) not sure if charging upon deposit is a good idea. I think it will prevent lots of people from depositing. Especially new players and fish.
2) the rate you suggest is about 10-20% of what the sites get today. We have to keep that mind.
3) I would prefere only charging winnings or withdrawals
I suggested something very similar. Folks said it can't work because the charges would be to highly visible.
My suggestion: instead of charges upon the withdrawal, rake like usual but then give the rake back to the players that don't fit the bill.