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Originally Posted by z00ted
Solution: [I]THE BEAST and SIT & CRUSH promotions need to be taken away (at least for the time being until the player pool is more human friendly). This isn't helping your actual userbase in any way because 70% of the players (especially within THE BEAST) are bots to begin with, so you're practically only rewarding cheating.
I agree with the other points you made but this is a poor attitude towards a really good promotion that makes ACR, well...ACR. If you don't think recs (or all player types rather) are motivated by these promotions, you're wrong. If you think the bots aren't winning at the games pre-rakeback, you're wrong. A lot of them are actually crushing and if you think ones with small winrates would go away without these promotions, you're also wrong.
If you bring the game integrity to an acceptable level, low levels of this promotion become easier, the games become easier, and everyone has more fun.
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Originally Posted by Thrash370
I should state that I don't feel everyone should have a webcam. I feel that would be a terrible entry point for newcomers that would turn them away. Only accounts that have a reasonable suspicion should have to go through this process.
This.
And please please PLEASE don't let every John Smith have the ability to captcha people. If you want to give credible and proven people the power to do this, who won't abuse it because they lost a pot vs someone they have 30 hands with...fine.