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Originally Posted by Cog Dissonance
A lot of recreational players watch videos at training sites, know about sharkscope, read poker players blogs and so on. I've had plenty of people sit me and tell me they've seen my vids and just wanted a game against me. If this happens to a mediocre pro, I'm sure it happens to a lot of pros.
If this is your main argument then it can easily be resolved by adding some sort of a challenge feature where one opponent can challenge the other and they can accept (and players can turn off a challenge receiving button just like the chat if they don't want to accept any challenges).
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Originally Posted by pavels4444
again battlenet idea is just horrific for higher stakes. I think the last stake where it would work would be 30s, maybe even 60s. Above in the stakes the ratio
of regs and fish is so different and regulars would play such a high % of games vs other regulars which will make it hardly possibly to beat the rake. Or at least it will SIGNIFICANTLY lower the winrate.
So its understandable that guys who agree with battlenet dont play 60s and above ...
Even cutting a winrate down to a quarter of even half might be better for the games because you could get constant action playing any amount of tables and a more competitive environment (better for games, not every person, but better for the games clearly).
Don't just dismiss different ideas than yours as inferior and that of low stakes people with no clue. Many of the favorable posts on the battlenet style take into consideration the makeup of the games with regs/fish.
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On that note, I'm going to see if we can get some talk of rake going in this thread. This is a privileged thread that no other room is allowed to have that I got cleared with the admins before making, and if battlenet type stuff is being discussed (which I even support) there's no reason why the very relevant rake concerns cannot be discussed.
It's the holidays so we may not see progress on that topic for another few days or week yet, but hopefully baard can jump back in here and do a 180 on the no-rake policy given the circumstances and concerns.