First, ticket credits - they might not show up immediately because the backoffice is doing a big job at the moment. But they should be in eventually. Please let me know if I've said I've done something in the below post but nothing has happened.
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Originally Posted by eMPee13
Hi Andrew, glad Fast hold em is the focus this month as it's fun and FNL4 has been running pretty well for a while. Gonna miss the football slot but the races should keep me busy.
It looks like the slot was popular. The good thing is that we have the mechanics built now, so it'll be easier to build a new copy in the future. I don't want to have promotions run for too long, but I definitely want to periodically bring back old favourites.
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Originally Posted by eMPee13
Still enjoying the site and looking forward to the forthcoming table improvements and login screen if these are still high on the list.
This has been a rather frustrating month - the big 1.6 problems at the start, and now a release that didn't really change much except fix that problem. The problem with low season is that not only are players on holiday, but so are staff. This must be what it's like working in product development for any other poker company.
At the moment, I think the chances are very good that the new login screen and table priority will make it into the end of August release. I am hoping for tiling too, but we shall see.
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Originally Posted by eMPee13
Also could you change my existing 1 Euro sng tickets to 4 Euro please, believe I have 17 and the same for my UBO 1 Euro tickets which I think I have 15. If I can be cheeky could I have the spare sng added to the 3 UBO to make another 4 Euro UBO ticket please? Thanks for changing my other ones previously too, it helps a lot.
Sure, done. I am fine converting non-UBO into UBO, just not the other way round.
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Originally Posted by fasteR
Hi Andrew, could u please change my 8*1€ UO to 2*4€ UO and all my MTT tickets (15€ worth i think) to 1€ SNG?
Thanks in advance.
Sure, done.
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Originally Posted by Sinsst
Are you planning on adding the play another feature again? I honestly really really liked it, not wasting time re-loading a lobby and such
Yes. The developers think they've fixed the bug, but couldn't complete enough testing to include the code in yesterday's release. This seems wise to me given the problems with not finding the big 1.6 bugs in testing last time. I think the chances are very high that play another will be back for next release.
I guess it'll be interesting to see what effect the option actually has on games.
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Originally Posted by kapetain
August mission is nice, but I have a feeling that July was more generous.. at least for me
also I'm gonna miss the football slot promo :/
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Originally Posted by skicowboys
Yes. In one way the mission this month is proportionate and fair, play nl4, get an nl4 ticket, play nl400, get an nl400 ticket. From that point of view you can't argue.
Playing NL10, I'm going to get a 10e ticket (with I'm guessing a 300 hand play through requirement). Last month everyone got 25e in SNG tickets, so for me this month is way worse. As you say the football spins were great, you can add 40e on top of the 25e (perhaps Unibet have spoiled us). The 2e tickets are back, but you have to go a long way with these to actually realise any cash.
It's only August 1st, but I'm already waiting for Sept 1st to see if this is the start of a trend. I'm still happy playing on Unibet but given the fact that August is probably the quietest month of the year then this isn't exactly inspiring, it's also a move away from Unibet supporting the casual player, for a more proportional approach. I think Unibet still offer a very good overall package of rewards. Adrian
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Originally Posted by 39suited
It actually makes sense to lower the expenses in a month where you can likely expect less traffic anyways. And casual players will be quite happy to get a 2€ ticket with a rather low requirement.
I think that one approach to low season is to try to make it not happen by putting out your biggest promos. Another is to just weather it and save your money for peak season.
Personally I prefer the latter approach because I don't want to try to force people to do something they don't want to. I'd rather encourage them to do more of something they already enjoy. Poker can be a frustrating game and you don't want to make that worse (asides from seeing a flop of three of a kind....)
That's why I am a bit ambivalent with happy-hour style promos. I think in moderation they work well, but some sites go crazy with them by trying to make people play when they don't want to.
More generally, we can put more money into promos that have secondary benefits. For example, I think it was a good plan to put money into PLO via the rake race a couple of months ago. In that case, we actually did make money immediately, but what matters is that the games still run more than they did before the promo. This is also why I'm disappointed in the 1.6 problems, because it undid a lot of the earlier investment we did with that type of promotion.
If we can find situations where we think we'll get a great return, we'll have generous promotions.
For the August mission specifically, I wanted to make it nice and simple and uncontroversial because we are introducing new functionality too. This is the first mission that includes OR instead of just AND. When I'm asking the developers to do something new and potentially complicated, I'd prefer to keep the rest as simple as possible.
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Originally Posted by huitdepique
Could you please turn my UBO 1€ tickets into 1 UBO 10€ and 2 UBO 2€. Furthermore, since I am going on holiday tomorrow, is it possible to extend the validity of my NL50 CG ticket? I will only be able to play after August 10th. (btw, I'd rather play PLO with this ticket, any chance you can transform it? I didn't use it yet).
Sure, done on all counts.
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Originally Posted by Tafete
could you change my 10 UBO tickets to 1 € 10 UBO ticket.
Sure, done.
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Originally Posted by 50 pence
Idea: Puttin' in a feature in the handhistory to see only hands that you've vpip'ed? Would be awesome and much more handy.
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Originally Posted by Hatebreedd
This would be a nice feature. If i want to look at a trouble hand i played i sometimes have to look a long time before i can find the hand in question
Good idea, we'll discuss it internally.
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Originally Posted by ArjenRobben
I think giving out those unibet tickets is really generous and anything that adds value to playing is nice imo.
This is one of those cases where we can get a better return than we could from, say, €2 SNG tickets (if we had such a stake). By spending the money here, we a) advertise UBO to a wider range of players, b) avoid overlays in UBO satellites and c) get to send more people to the actual final, which is good for retention and for PR.
We ran this for a loooooong time on MGS last year - mostly because we spent all our time building this new client, rather than building new promos - and it definitely falls off in effectiveness as time goes on. But I favour bringing it back it now and then as an old favourite.
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Originally Posted by skicowboys
Hi Andrew, it was disappointing to find another error in the same challenge. What was most annoying was I spent an hour going back through the hand histories as I thought I must have been mistaken. I could have spent this time actually playing. It does also make you unsure if everything else works exactly as it should, but again at least I wasn't going crazy! These challenges need to "work out of the box", so we can just concentrate on playing.
Yes, I agree. It's not good when there're bugs in this kind of thing. In this case nobody lost out per se, because we designed it that way. It's not great to upset our players though, and I'm sorry about that.
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Originally Posted by skicowboys
OK on to the positives. A new month beckons and a new mission. Can you clear the 15xAA whilst playing fast holdem or is it only regular speed?
Similar question, if you can play fast NL10 for example and you get 3xAA if you then play regular NL10 and get AA, will it take account of that too (if it's all NL10)
Fast and regular are counted as the same game for the mission.
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Originally Posted by skicowboys
Fast holdem races. How often will the leader boards be updated? As this is 1 point per flop seen, this looks like a conventional rake race essentially?
It's automatically updated roughly every 15 minutes.
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Originally Posted by ArjenRobben
That game sounds as a lot of fun And your boss did he win it once? He might just can't stand you winning it twice and the distraction is just a tactical move from him during the game to compensate his pokerskills.
It is a source of great disappointment within the office that he has not managed to win it, even once, despite having played more of them than me. He is currently claiming that the time I folded preflop a single time and won the tournament, he had aces and that he would have won. I think we can all see through that story.
While we're on the subject, I also won the poker team HU SNG tournament last time. And guess who else was in the final. He's always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Last edited by UnibetAndrew; 08-01-2014 at 06:24 AM.