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Originally Posted by GLUIPERIG
They're not theoretical. I agree they're legit concerns. However, Kahn has always been up front when it comes to opinions and information. He's also never hidden his being an affiliate. I've also seen him suggest other site to people he felt merge was not the best fit.
And also, unfortunately you do have to accept merge running their games into the ground. We have zero input into managements decisions. We do though have the option to go elsewhere and let merge die.
People come into this thread all the time and complain that their connection is laggy. I never bother complaining about such things because those problems usually right themselves in short order and they're usually regional internet problems which the site can't do much about anyway. But that type of complaining is acceptable to many in this thread and I think that's fine
People come into this thread and constantly complain about the tournament structures. I don't play very many tournaments so I don't complain about the structures because I really don't know enough about it to intelligently add to the conversation. But that type of complaining is also acceptable to many in this thread and I also think that's fine.
And there is a myriad of other acceptable things that players complain about, and that's fine too. There certainly isn't any reason to tell any of these players to GTFO.
The things that bother me are the larger problems; the bad decisions that they've made almost on a monthly basis and that continue to happen on a pretty regular basis. These are just dumb decisions that they've made; decisions like getting rid of the play tables or raising the NLHE rake to the highest in the country or enacting other changes in such a crude way as to alienate large portions of the player pool, just to name a few. People and business' that don't learn from their mistakes just repeat their mistakes over and over. When I talk about these problems, I'm talking about current events, not ancient history.
When a business screws up the worst thing that customers can do is simply pretend all is well and let the business continue to screw up. I think that the folks in this thread who are assuming that Merge and Jazette don't read this thread are wrong. This thread represents one of the very few existing sources of feedback for what has gone wrong; and even the most thick headed network manager must realize by now that something has gone wrong. It's entirely possible that the reintegration of the micro sitngos may be the result of the feedback they've had to listen to.
As far as Kahn goes, it's true that Kahn does do a lot of good for the players. But he does have his own self interests which causes him to sometimes intertwine fact with fiction. There is nothing wrong when someone tries to separate those out. And if Kahn doesn't like what you have to say, you may very well get a nasty private reprimand. Once you get one of those you may very well see Kahn in a different light.
Last edited by SantaCruz; 01-19-2014 at 05:55 PM.