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Originally Posted by gotdanuts
+1 to this
Obviously
The good news is they can't renege on their $200 for 1800 points
The bad news is they think $1000 for 9000 points is a better deal, and not completey redundant.
I'm nearly positive they will set up cash back price points exactly like the current tournament tickets from palladium on down to bronze
transperancy NOW could prevent rediculous implementations before it's too late.
Just show us the damn model already ffs.
Thanks for getting in touch with them, and confirming that they are morons (sarcasm is directed at them, not you).
In other news, it would be nice to put some real pressure on them, via some kind of anti-advertising campaign ("Do not play at PartyPoker, here is how they treat their customers"), and so on.
I'll set up a
poll on what regs want to see from the bonus system, and maybe that is (another) step in the right direction.
In one sense, what Party Poker is doing here, is the classic Hegelian dialectic, right? They have:
1) Created a problem (creating un-sustainable business models to the point where they had to massively scale back their bonuses).
2) Had a reaction (people complaining that their bonus system is among the worst in the industry).
3) Proposed a solution to the problem that they had created, which would create even more problems for a certain group of people (grinders who have their bonus figures cut, and so on).
The point is, there is a bottom line here, and that is:
They need to get the message that if they do not create competitive bonus programs, they will lose customers. Simple. As. That.
In fact, what I would actually like to do is
find a way to inform recreational players that there are better places to play, and really hit them where it hurts, since that's who they are trying to attract most.