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Originally Posted by vinivici9586
IMO our best hope is for blizzard/world of warcraft to use their huge bankroll/brain trust to tap into the gaming industry, offering a 60 dollar client and 14/month type fee that they use with their wildly popular video games
This is the best option bar far. I've seen this idea floating around 2p2 for years, why hasn't blizzard/world of warcraft done anything? Why hasn't any other company tried this? Are companies waiting for legislation before joining the bandwagon? I don't understand. Is gambling really that taboo?
Every time I see a thread like this it gets me all worked up. There's basically a few poker sites that have a strangle hold on the entire market, and they're killing the golden goose by constantly searching for ways to make record gains either by increasing rake, lowering rb and bonuses or a combination of the two. Record earnings year after year in this market is impossible. These poker sites need to accept the fact that they won't be making as much money as they did in the past. Instead of of doing whatever they can to maintain short term earnings which is effectively stunting future long term sustainability, they need to focus on
sustainable earnings/growth. And by doing so, they need to implement a biz strat like $60 client $14/m thereafter.
Everyone says the party days are over. They are. Not just for players though, they're over for sites as well. The party is over/ending. Sites need to come to terms with this, they can either run the business into the ground, or they can begin to implement smart, logical business strategies that are focused on long term sustainability.
I think the market it ripe for blizzard/world of warcraft to come in and save the day (and make a **** ton of money in the process). I think there's some similarity between the games they offer and what poker has to offer. Fun, entertaining, addictive. And I believe it will more so if blizzard comes into the picture because of all the extra money they'll leave in the poker economy by charging client/monthly fees. Blizzard could practically wipe poker stars off the fkn map if they wanted to, and based off of what blizzard has done with warcraft, I believe they can.