Interesting situation to read about, as it is a bit different from other not so shocking changes that have happened in the past 15 years in this industry.
I will first question this
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Originally Posted by a dewd
Poker players are not complicated. They want a place to play, get paid, and transparency. Most will even understand negative changes when discussed openly.
because while I agree how this was handled was about as LOLbad as it gets, the reality is that even when changes are presented well in advance and are very transparent, this those within this industry are among the least accepting of any change to their situation, and the reality is this is always an industry where the "good things" eventually get consumed by the behavior of the regs in this industry.
That brings a bit of a different point, that being the hard core regs have always had a misguided idea of how well they are loved and fit in this industry. Sure, they can help generate rake, but in general they also feed hard on the system and drain a ton of money out of the system, which is why you have seen all the changes that have happened in the past several years.
A semi similar example would be how Stars handled the SNEs. The SNE program was so insanely outdated in terms of how it fit in the industry that I was surprised it was around as long as it was, yet when it was changed (in a pretty clunky way by Stars) the reaction from the players was that that their reduction of play was going to cripple Stars, when in fact it was Stars goal to reduce the amount of predatory play from these same players.
I do not know how much the player mix has changed in Global in terms of predator/prey, but no doubt it has changed quite a bit since the days where the biggest headache were all the people screwing around with the free 2 bucks. With that in mind I would suggest that the more rational of the "this is the end" crowd try to do their best to figure out if these processor changes are for everyone, or are they actually forcing those that are processing a ton of cashouts to this new method.
How Global is handling this is pretty bad, but I can understand that if their choice is somewhat based on the above they may not want to be fully transparent (LOL, our policy is paypal for donks only!), however I fully agree with how they are presenting it is about as bad as possible from a marketing perspective.
I would also suggest that those who are screaming the most about not wanting to give bank details who treat this as a proper job start taking the steps that should be done for something this serious, and that includes setting up a separate bank account that handles all of these transactions. I am not surprised that is is not common, as a lot of what I do when I work with players is help them set up a much more efficient and professional structure for handling the funds from essentially their jobs.
I encourage continued pressure to have some information and progress made with how this company communicates, but this should also be a wakeup call to those who are deeply impacted to be more aware and prepared for these types of changes, for they happen all the time.