People are going a bit too wild. Yes we will all miss the big SM where we all have the worst ROIs (at least I do) but there were 40,000 players on .ES and it's their SCOOP series (got a 2nd missed the title
mandatory humble brag) and .COM had 99K. The 4 most popular sites in India at that exact moment had 4000 players during non peak hours (not counting some who might be exclusively on Stars, 888 if it still exists.
ETA: lol I actually did not even look at one big site adda52 which would have easily put the total number of players at 6K-ish
There is no way Stars cannot consolidate the existing segregated player pool and size up 3x at least.
There are people who don't even understand how good this can be for us - currently we get to huge guarantees because every tournament is unlimited rebuys and we get uptop like 40K+ ez, consolidation of players on one site will increase the GTDs and we know stars are gonna have smth like they do on .ES where there are a lot more 2-3 re-entry tournaments, no sngs, decent cash traffic and 'scheduled sngs' like 3 euro 2R1A with no GTD but usually tops up at 200ish Euro for win.
If we can get close to this schedule, and I believe we will, I am not gonna miss Stars.com.
These last 3ish weeks are going to be awesome though. I am making a PG&C thread for it