Don't forget to pause fo a second and contemplate that stars managed to break the VIP system while breaking the VIP system.

Originally Posted by HostScott View Post
There is a technical issue that required shutting down the cash bonuses in the VIP Store temporarily. This issue affected the entire world, not just NJ. My understanding is that it will be fixed (and the VIP bonuses returned) next week, though not before Tuesday due to the weekend and the Monday holiday. We apologize for the inconvenience.

just lol

LOL. I am so pissed off.
pokerstars what the actual ***?!

Is it time to move to a different poker room?

Monday being a world holiday.

Amaya software is located at Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Google said there is Family day on 20th in Ontario.

Ha. After reading the couple of posts immediately before yours, I was thinking this also. Are people supposed to be cheering that their cost to play is going up? Because based on those couple of posts, it seems like they are.

How can you be that pissed off about not being able to trade in your points for cash for a few days? What's the big deal?


President's Day is always the third Monday in February; every year. If you were so inclined, you could figure out every time for say the next 5,000 years that such date will coincide with Hitler's birthday.

I'm pretty sure that every person who was born toward the end of February will in some years have his/her birthday coincide with President's Day. Hitler is a well known person for being beyond terrible. He doesn't really have anything to do with the U.S. or its presidency.

Sure but he was an evil political leader rather than a random evil person.

But yes, I realise that's not the reason for choosing the date.

The developers are not in IoM though?

Hitler's birthday isn't for another two months?

Good point. He just came up at the side when I googled the date. I assume because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret..._February_1933

not sure, at least bosses are at Ontario i suppose and without their approvement nothing goes out

"We develop gaming software for all of the brands owned and operated by Amaya Inc. and its subsidiaries, including PokerStars, according to their needs and requirements. This software includes gaming clients, scalable server backend and Cashier, as well as site administration, reporting and customer support tools. Amaya Inc. and its subsidiaries also use our services for the installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the software we develop."

just lol if you think that this ia actually a "technical issue." They are testing the waters for removing cash rebates.

If it is actually a technical issue, then they are reaaaaallllyyy inept. Imagine a company with clients all over the wold which needs four days to fix something simple like this.

how do you know it is simple? the fact that they had to remove this option points to direction its not minor issue at all.

Yes it's pretty tilting. But what it does mean is that we can be sure that we will have a chance to cash out our starscoin, so they're not straight up robbing us like they did with the sne. Still potentially a scumbag move if it isn't a real technical issue.

It doesn't need four days, they even said that it's not getting worked on for three of the days. Work on that comprehension.

It does need four days. I don't care if they work on it or not, for me it takes four days for them to fix the issue.

And if they don't work on it for three days, it means they don't have the infrastructure or manpower in place that would be expected from a company like this, and one that I pay 100 of dollars a month.

*bites tongue and keeps moving*

Ok.. I wanted to play some poker during weekend. Have no money on PS account, but have 2000+ points...

I even called my friend in the middle of the night, made him get out of bed and check if it works on his PC...

Pretty funny how far the perception of stars has fallen that lots of people (me included) assumed they had just removed cash rebates with no notice to force people into buying spin tickets.
Maybe it's not really a bug and they just wanted to see the reaction for when they implement something similar in the future

I'm not sure which part you disagree with.

I was just (perhaps unnecessarily) pointing out that it is of course a coincidence that Hitler's birthday coincides with President's Day this year. President's Day is always the third Monday in February and in different years will coincide with the birthdays of a lot of people. Hitler just happens to be someone whom everybody knows, so the coincidence with his birthday was noticed, but he doesn't actually have any more of a connection to President's Day or anything that President's Day is about than any of the other people. Given the foregoing, I didn't see why it would be "amusing" that these dates coincided.

And it turned out that the person who pointed out the coincidence was actually mistaken about Hitler's birthday anyway and such birthday is in April.

Chelsea Clinton's birthday is on President's Day this year. To me, that seems closer to perhaps being some amusing coincidence given that her father was one of the presidents and her mother almost was the current president.

Obviously, different people find different things amusing though.

Holy wall of text. It was a "Trump is Hitler" joke.

Points have value in real money so it's basically holding the cash hostage. Would you be fine if you can't make cashout? Just a bug takes a few days. Will fix it when we are not taking a holiday.

Not really. I'm not that partisan about the politics of foreign countries (other than the one I live in).

And sorry for the mistake and the derail.

yeah but its okay because they told us that they refuse to work on it for 3 days lmao

My comment was.

glgl