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Originally Posted by PokerAce
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Originally Posted by Jonathan
PT3 lacks proper tournament support. If you play tournaments,
then you should stick with PT2. It appears that even after the
official release, PT3 will not be providing equivalent functionality
as PokerTracker for tournament players.
Frankly, I don't quite understand how a company can release a
"new improved" version, and charge extra money, for something
which lacks the basic functionality of the old program.
This is bad business, in my opinion.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. PT3's tournament support is nearly identical to PT v2's. There may be a few minor features missing or not fully complete, but nothing major. What is PT3 missing that you need?
Specifically, PT3 is missing the ability to autoimport PokerStars tournament
summaries via email or a POP3 account. It also lacks the "manual import"
capability of PokerTracker, which determines which tournament summaries
are missing and automatically sends requests to PokerStars to email the
missing summaries.
This is not some minor feature, but is a major component of any tracker
that is to be used by tournament players. Suppose, for example, that an
active player plays 120 sit and gos and 3 tournaments a day. Is he
expected to write down his results on a piece of paper and then go
back and manually enter these results one by one into PT3? This would
take hours a day, and it basically renders PT3 unusable for tournament
players.
A second example of a major difference between PT3 and PokerTracker.
Suppose you play just 1 tournament a week- the PokerStars Sunday
Million. 7325 entries, 1018 prizes, for example. In PokerTracker
I can import a single tournament summary and have the prize/finish
data on all of my opponents. In PT3 it would take many hours of manual
labor to input the prize/finish data for the 1018 finishers, an unrealistic
task.
If you look at the very next post following mine, NoodleMan echoes
the same sentiments:
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Originally Posted by TheNoodleMan
Ive got thousands of SNGs, and going through all of them individually and clicking the drop down for table type then autofill would take me days.
So the lack of an import capability is by no means minor, but is one
of the key underpinnings of any tracker to be used by all but
the most casual tournament player.
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You also need to keep in mind that that commercial release is not the final release. We will continue to expand PT3's functionality for years after the initial commercial release.
Of course you will, and I have no doubt that that support will be first
rate. The support for PokerTracker and PAHud was truly excellent, and
I have no doubt that that will continue with PT3.
I don't mean to be too harsh on you with the above criticisms. I think
you are doing a great job. PokerTracker was long in the tooth and needed
to be replaced. The approach you are taking by starting from scratch
is certainly the correct one. And your responsiveness in these
threads is excellent. Kudos to you for that. But you need to recognize
three things:
- Many PokerTracker customers are tournament players.
- PT3 lacks the basic import functionality required for a tournament tracker.
- Therefore, tournament players will not buy PT3 and will be forced to
continue with PokerTracker.
Now, as long as the product is in Beta, these issues are not a problem.
I understand you have a big project on your hands, with limited resources,
and you choose to allocate those resources on features/enhancements
that may be of greater import to more customers.
But why the rush to commerically release a product which lacks the
basic tournament functionality of its predecesor? What's the rush?
This is what I think is unacceptable- not only for me, but for any PokerTracker customer who plays tournaments or sit and gos seriously.
PT3 looks very nice, and its off to a promising start. By continuing to
work on key features while in beta you can achieve the goal of
releasing a successor to PokerTracker which is its equal or superior
in every way.
I hope you will think about the implications of a premature commercial
release, and I also hope that you will reconsider the priority of
providing a tournament summary import capability as soon as possible.
Regards,
Jonathan