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Originally Posted by mamelas
Please address this @BetonlineMike . Alot of people have been waiting for several months now and the only thing be offered is entrance into tourney bucks and a $1 feeder satellite. It would make perfect sense if you guys just went back to the old system you had.
Even the old system wouldn't be great at this point. With all the time passed since the old VIP system was taken away, to come back and offer the same thing would be an insult.
The longer they wait, the more incentivized they become to offer a worse VIP system. If they offer any kind of decent cash exchange for points, at this point it would be a pretty big immediate hit as most if not all mid-high stakes regs have VIP balances in the millions at this point.
The catch 22 is that if they offer a program that doesn't offer more than simply points for tourney buyins, these same regs will feel that the VIP system is useless. After promising an upgrade and suspending the old program for so long, delivering a worse or similar program to the discontinued one would be a disaster as well.
I think this is probably why the delay has dragged on for so long.
My theory: The new program was originally pitched with genuine intent to provide a better VIP system for the players and was announced with the intent to implement quickly. Once the full cost became apparent, it was vetoed from higher up. Now they are in a stalemate with 3 bad options(from Chico's viewpoint). Continue to delay(and earn more $) and take a tiny bit of heat, revert to the old system and take more criticism(and lose a little $), or give the players what they want with a new and improved VIP system(cost more $).