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Originally Posted by Gandalf The White?
only positive thing there's no monthly maintenance required for sn anymore
what about all the great promotions that are much better than how they've been in the past? now that stars have saved all this money from the VIP system they can more easily afford to invest in marketing and promotional campaigns, which for us means lots of fun, great promos like the cash game quest, mega bonuses to name a few that we may not be getting had changes not been made:
So Amaya's decision to take away money from the VIP system works well in 2 ways:
1) Pokerstars injects new hope into the community by making a bold decision that may help to save the games by replacing the old broken VIP system with a new one that may prove to be sustainable. The ecosystem health will improve to level out the playing field as the gap between rewards for casual and regular players is narrowed, and high volume play is discouraged. This change works congruently and cohesively alongside Amaya's decision to lower the utilisation of casual player targeting by regulars using 3rd party software. The end result is that casual players get a better experience on the site and will therefore stay for longer which will benefit everybody.
2) The money saved from the VIP system is able to be spent on more important things that also serve to level out the playing field by benefiting recreational players more, such as marketing and promotional campaigns that aim to draw in new depositing players and also reignite the interest of existing casual players.
You guys have to understand these changes were necessary to be made, and now finally we're starting to see why. The games have been the best they've been for a while (partly thanks to the strike as even more high volume players are discouraged which is yet another thing that helps the ecosystem). I'm already loving the new promotional ideas that have been implemented into the new year, as well as the discussed ideas promised for us in the future (such as a 100,000,000 starscoin giveaway next month mentioned by Pokerstars Matthew in another thread).