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Originally Posted by JimmySutsuki
What do you gain by not saving hand histories locally? You turned it off a while ago, would turning it back on really take much development resources?
Now some players that are ready to go that extra mile and pay money to few third parties gain an unfair edge on other players. I guarantee that many recreational players might have Holdem Manager or Poker Tracker but absolutely no recreational player has H2N and whatever other programs that are needed.
The bit in the italics just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Tracking software providers dropped support because you made them do it. If you saved hand histories locally they would have support up in minutes. "The effort was not worth the reward" is also pretty bad coming from the MPN bosses, basically saying your network is insignificant.
I just don't understand why you would waste your sacred development resources on creating something that other companies specialize on and have been improving their product for over a decade. Everyone knows your Player History app will never be good enough and you really shouldn't waste your time and effort on it. Just save the hand histories locally and others will take care of this.
There are some misconceptions in this post that are worth addressing.
The maker of HEM and PT dropped support for us last year, long before we released the new client. If I remember correctly it was April 2017.
They did this because we changed the hand histories to include less information. We made the change because we wanted to make it harder for players to passively gather data on their opponents. The new hand history files contained all the data required to track your own game, but only contained information on your opponents actions if you actively participated in the hand.
Although we gave the developers a few weeks notice of the change, it turned out that supporting the new format required some extensive development on their side. Since MPN is a small, predominantly casual network, we have relatively few people using such software. So the developer decided to discontinue support for our cash games instead, which is understandable.
We could change the hand history format back. However, third party developers would need to reinstate support on their end, which I doubt they would do. It would also need work on our side.
Given that there is no guarantee that the changes would succeed, there is relatively little demand, and we plan to discontinue this client at some point - not to mention that the reasons we discontinued support in the first place are still valid, in my opinion, we have no plans to do this.
Introducing hand histories saved on the device in the new client is a whole different ball game. We would be starting from scratch, so doing this would be a huge amount of work. For the same reasons mentioned above we think the work would not be worth the reward.