ct690911: I appreciate your generosity in allowing this thread to meander.
True but it is also hard to prevent it, unless of course WGT locked it.
Going back a few pages,
renniw52: Oh good gracious, what has happened to my original intent.
I am not sure Rich, but when this intent was honored as you originally intended, was the best thread around.
renniw52: Carry on everyone, it doesn't affect me at all.
To me it was no an endorsement of what has happened, but Rich's resignation to the fact he has no control nor no longer cares.
Rich was great to this game, endorsed the product and spend money to have fun and help others get that same enjoyment.
It does become hard to keep up that support when nothing is given back in return. CT's analogy regarding banks is true, they do not care and everyone is a number. In fact most businesses are like this despite catchy slogans that they care.
So when players finally say enough is enough and stop feeding the beast.....I admire them. One thing I have got to know about Rich, he has principles, the old fashioned sort where loyalty is paramount, and he feels rightly or wrongly, that WGT shafted him. From there, it is hard to forgive, so even playing the game for free goes against those core principles.
Personally I still derive fun from the game, playing with mates and having a laugh....but I am spending less. I have 1 credit to my name - yes I will top up soon, but no longer gift randoms as I used to.
Maybe society and attitudes have changed, values are economically driven and that sense of community has slowly been eroded.
Perhaps this forum and community have changed as well...which would make sense. Everything evolves but that is not necessarily a good thing. This thread. like most evolved......point proven lol.