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Originally Posted by LeaksSuck
The reward system is directly part of the price u pay, it's not a bonus.
If u pay 1$ rake in your game and get 40% rb (e.g. current partypoker cash structure), u are paying a price of 60c.
If u pay 0.9$ rake in your game and get 3% rb, u are paying a price of 87c.
Decreasing rewards is equivalent to increasing rake and the method by which this is done is as intransparent as it gets to hide that and market it as a cool thing with funky chests that pay potentially huge prices. The latter is irrelevant to any players cause u could just take the cash flat in a non-rnd payout and buy whatever lottery/sports-bet/roulette/poker products u like and gamble (or yeah, just take the cash if u're not into gambling ), cash is cash.
It is a bonus, and more precisely a "marketing strategy".
According to your explanation, if Stars never offered rakeback at first but instead lowered their rake (instead of paying 1$ rake and getting 0.40c back, you simplay payed 0.60c without rakeback at all), do you really think that it would have had the same impact in players minds ?
Rakeback/cashback is just a marketing illusion to convince people they "win" something on long-term, but it remains an illusion, only the effective rake isn't.
In the poker boom's context, it was a very smart strategy to adopt for poker rooms and it suited well with the "grind it out to the max" motto.
If you're simply unable to understand that this motto changed in 15 years and that the "average Joe player" doesn't have the same goals than before, then you're just an old fart that can't evolve in time. In biology, not evolving means to die.