Ducati916:A completely unscientific survey.
Since so many are fed up with changes, baggers, lack of courses, RG issues, cancellation of gift cards, lack of corporate response, etc...here is the question.
If WGT did away with upgraded balls, clubs, avatars, etc...and made everyone play with the same clubs/balls (a little above starter) and from the same tees, etc...but, made 5 or 6 new courses a year...would you pay $10 a month to play any courses (unlimited play)...or, $5 a month to play just the basic 4 or 5 courses....or would you not?
Perhaps you could still buy credits to wager in skins, MPC or tourneys.
Not advocating any subscription system or anything like that...just curious.
Good ideas in part but they would
never even come close to satisfying less than ¼ of the 6 million members I
would guess? However, by expanding
your ideas and that would call for significant and sweeping changes; it could
make it a lot more fun, fair and affordable for the vast majority of
players. So instead of just having
Everyone play with the same clubs and balls etc., WGT could divide the site
into 2 or 3 Categories of members. For example, have One Category of players who
want to use the same Equipment, Balls but Slower Swing Meter Speed etc. except
use the Best equipment and balls, not "a little above starter". Otherwise, like Renniw52 said, we would all
be Hacks again and that ain't no fun as we All learned. :) With this Category, you could then 'do away
with' all the Tiers and Levels and the player Searches would be So Much Easier
and Faster.
Then you could have a Second
Category of players who want varying tee box distances, green and wind speeds
and even Swing Meter Speeds such as Slow, Regular and Fast. But base All the Tournaments, CTTH Sweeps and
Challenges on each of the 3 Swing Meter Speeds, so everyone has a fair chance
to compete and WIN at the speed they are more skilled with. With this Category, you could still 'do away
with' all the Tiers and Levels but the player Searches would have choices of
different tee box distances, green and wind speeds as well as the 3 Swing Meter
Speeds.
Then just keep things the way
they are now as the Third category.
And I like the idea of a $5 or less monthly fee for
all Categories, if feasible, whether you play or not. Even at $3 per month; that is 6 million times
$3 = $18 million PER MONTH! That's not
chump change and that doesn't even include the profits from the 'Gambling'
aspect of the site and Sponsors and God knows what else. :) But if their actual revenue is far more than $18
million/mo., don't expect changes of any kind except higher costs perhaps? As for adding 5 or 6 new courses each year, I
doubt they have enough qualified programmers to do that nor want to do that nor
would want to spend the time and money on such a huge undertaking. Besides, they still aren't maintaining or
fixing many bugs in the 18-hole courses they have now, from what I've seen? I could be wrong though? So I'm almost certain they wouldn't want the
added avalanche of complaints about another 5 or 6 courses Every year as
well? ;) And I'm even more certain WGT
probably wouldn't want to field the many thousands more complaints plus the
cost of more staff to deal with them? Anyway
that's just my opinion and I'm basically agreeing with you but by Times 3 at
least, with regard to changes and improvements and there are still many
more positive changes that could be made.
That's just the tip of the iceberg per se but again, it's WGT's
prerogative to do or not do whatever they want no matter what we say. It's still a great online game with or
without our whining. :)