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Site upgrades 8 Jan 13. with fireworks too! wow lol

• fravel 1,716 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 2:06 AM

  Had to go for page 51,i think next year if this game is still here ,we must on the day of the 8th Jan 14 make it a 'Elite Collection" holiday, just for the fun of it..........

• saltiresfan 2,266 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 4:23 AM

  Speaking as someone who's worked in this area advertisers don't care less about the "size" of your member base, they want to know unique visits, new vs returning and average time spent on site. Alexa measures aren't good enough for advertisers they want your Analytics data.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 6:21 AM

  hyena64:

  "US unique visitor".   All that means is someone logged on that "supposedly" is new to the site, then came back at least once using the same IP address.

  They don't have to come back, one visit is enough.

  I found this article in Wikipedia about Unique Visitors interesting.  The first couple of paragraphs is enough. Highlights:

  -It uses IP addresses + a further identifier (usually a cookie)

  -It identifies computers, not unique people visiting a site.  So if more than one person uses that computer and visits the site, you still get just 1 unique visit counted.

  -"Unique users is a common way of measuring the popularity of a website and is often quoted to potential advertisers or investors."

  -If you clear your cookies, you get counted again.  Hmmm...

  Monthly updates, we clear our cache(which in my case also clears cookies)  do I get counted twice each month?  Is the real number of unique visitors in November 2012 not 413K but closer to 206K?

  Anyway, I'm more interested in the trend than the absolute number.

• Choppography 2,166 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 6:25 AM

  PUHOLINO:

  I can't believe this was the 1 question that was answered today.

  Oh, wait, I can.

  Amen.........:facepalm: :eyeroll:

  It also appeared Icon hijacked Pizza's account there.  The only thing missing was "did you clear your cache?"

  Why even try?  Sheesh.  Not even the "we've forwarded this message to Chad."  That may aggravate me even more.  Chad runs this business like I run the playground sandbox at lunchtime.

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 6:28 AM

  Pizza, can you answer my question on removing gift cards;

  You said earlier that gift cards weren't hot.  If thats the case, why remove them?

   

  (My take on this is that for years the gift cards have been there, making players feel they can achieve a tiny bit back for their loyal playing & SPENDING, and now there is a bigger pool of good players who are close to obtaining these gift cards WGT feel it would be wiser to ditch the cards ASAP rather than have to fork out to a few hundred or a thousand players.  Otherwise it wouldn't make no difference to keep them.  Every one knew the Maserati was impossible to obtain and just a joke, but the gift cards were the ONL:Y realistic chance of getting anything.  By removing them and replacing them with Avatars that NO ONE out of the millions playing would buy seems to blatantly show that WGT doesn't care about players anymore but only see us as CASH MACHINES. I havn't seen anything more ridiculous then this move by WGT, especially after all this "talk" in forums by WGT informing us of this "new" customable avatars they plan to release.  BUT, every one presumed they would be LOGICALLY PRICED, where players could actually buy them if they wanted.  This one move has turned Mr WGT and his team of marketing muppets from being  popular guys to a total A55.  I think i might go and buy a bottle of beer now, "What the heck!!!, the supermarket wants $3000 for my Budwiser!

• bonesalone 102 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 6:55 AM

  showing feelings of an almost human nature

  This just will not do

  Crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy

   

  The evidence before the court is incontrevertable

   

  Good bye cruel World Golf tour, its over , walk on by.

• overtheedge 5,885 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 7:18 AM

  andyson:

  Anyway, I'm more interested in the trend than the absolute number.

  This was a veeeeery lucurtive 6, 7 year run. CN and everyone else involved made more $$ than they EVER could have imagined. WGT is and HAS BEEN sloooooowly dieing off or at the least, not retaining customers and losing the ones that made them a ton of $$$ in the first place and the time has come to either - 1. Keep working your ASS off to keep this thing from completely sinking OR 2. - "jump ship" and get out while the gettin is good. hmmmm?

  I have a question -  Has Chad come in "at all!" ?

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 7:37 AM

  overtheedge:

  I have a question -  Has Chad come in "at all!" ?

  Will probably stay away for a few days until the "hate" towards him has dyed down.

   

  Doesn't 51 pages in 2 days tell WGT something about players opinion.  If i owned a company and this player outrage had happened I would sack my marketing team, get to the bottom of players gripes, sort it out and get WGT back on track, but heck, this would happen in the "real" world, obviously WGT NEVER work like that. In the real world "the customer is always right" here in WGT fantasy land, "the customer is always all right to fleece"

• TWOMINUSONE 2,580 Posts

  Fri, Jan 11 2013 7:44 AM

  Oh Chad was here yesterday all right. He was on WGT for a good few hours, but not a single word from him.