GlassMan27:
I find it funny that the original post in this thread has been modified to eliminate the 'player feedback' portion of the R11s comment. Transparency? Give me a f'n break. I'm still waiting to hear who the player was that got beat by a 'lesser skilled' opponent because their opponent had the same equipment they had, and was so hurt that they felt the need to cry to the powers that be at WGT. The whole thing is comical.
Yes, the chat itself made it very clear that they do not give a damn of what we say, they have it all figured out. I think the situation, regarding the R11S, is simply that they know they are reaching the limit on how good the clubs can be and therefore they need to put a goal further up ahead to make people play. It works well from a business point of view, you have a lot of L88-89 players that are making an effort to reach the R11S before it is put out of reach for a year or more and after that people will still have something to wish for.
I do not think that putting that club at L94 is such a bad crime, it makes no wonders and the G20 driver not not far behind it, no, what I reacted on in the chat was the way they approached the "sandbagging" issue, they simply missed the target completely. I do not think it is by accident, they have data on who buys what and they must have made a decision based on that.
Of course, they are entitled to do that and although I think it is a bad decision in the long run, neither I or anyone else outside WGT can base our opinion on raw data, so we must accept the fact that their decision might be a good one for WGT. They are not a charity organization and although we are important, they do run a business and the task is to make benefits for themselves.
My belief is that their behavior is scaring players away, but then on the other hand - they advertise quite aggressively and maybe there is two new players coming in for each one that leaves. And maybe one of those new players spend more money in the shop than the one that leaves. They can see that in the data.