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Hole In One Challenge is dumb as structured

• AceHoler26 351 Posts

  Fri, Mar 29 2013 11:23 AM

  The Hole In One Challenge should be changed.  It's a sucker play as presently structured. For example:

  When you risk credits you only get additional credits when making a hole in one.  Even if you land within a foot you lose credits.  This is ludicrous.

  Here is how it should be structured:

  Hole in one = big payout

  Within a foot = you earn some additional credits, like if you risk 50 the payout for this should be like 60 or 75 credits for eample.

  Within 5 feet you break even and get your original stake back.

  As presently set up I would NEVER enter a Hole In One Challenge.

• MrPS0822 4 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 5:09 PM

  AceHoler26:

  As presently set up I would NEVER enter a Hole In One Challenge.

  Me neither

• keidan 311 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 7:05 PM

  AceHoler26:

  The Hole In One Challenge should be changed.  It's a sucker play as presently structured. For example:

  When you risk credits you only get additional credits when making a hole in one.  Even if you land within a foot you lose credits.  This is ludicrous.

  Here is how it should be structured:

  Hole in one = big payout

  Within a foot = you earn some additional credits, like if you risk 50 the payout for this should be like 60 or 75 credits for eample.

  Within 5 feet you break even and get your original stake back.

  As presently set up I would NEVER enter a Hole In One Challenge.

   

  I wholeheartedly agree.  Your structure for payouts is better, and I think there's potential for players to go for more credits and WGT to find more profit here.  The odds still look like they're for the house... even the top players should find it challenging to try and get within a foot of the hole or better (I think...).  For now I automatically turn off the hole in one feature in the menu options.

• Kryzhack 3 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 7:18 PM

  Don't Hold your breath...this is the same company who thinks  a phone call should cost $1000.00 or a change of wardrobe should be $5000.00

  Tools!

• keidan 311 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 9:37 PM

  :)  I'll keep my breathing nice and regular.

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 12:55 AM

  "There's a sucker born every minute." (except of readers of this thread).

  This is the easy money, raised from distant hopes!

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 1:23 AM

  At a very rough estimate I must have hit around 6,000 drives in this game and I've never hit a hole in one, so why would I gamble on the next one going in? 

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 7:30 AM

  It is actually engineered perfectly. It takes into account two flaws in the human psyche:
  1. We think "it might happen"
  2. We think, "if it happens, now would be a great time"
  Then we start to believe it will happen and we believe that it is more likely to happen since we now have made an extra effort that changes the scene from the thousand efforts we have done before.
  
  Hole in One Challenge is not there to make us happy.
  
  They are easy to ignore though, so I am not disturbed by them. There is also so many CTTH experts that make HIO's frequently so your structure model would make no sense for the WGT business developers. Also - it is after all a Hole in One challenge. Everything except an ace is a miss.
  
  It's there, it will make some happy. I have won in total 4 credits on them!

  AceHoler26:

  The Hole In One Challenge should be changed.  It's a sucker play as presently structured. For example:

• Fuzzygazz 1,469 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 8:34 AM

  Credit betting on hole in one is broke.  ----->   This way to the Egress folks!

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 8:42 AM

  I have a great idea for the WGT business developers:
  Let the payout be based on accumulated credits paid for challenges and reset that number every 10th try.

  That would mean that if you bet 10 credits each, your 10th shot would actually be a 100 credit bet. They could call the 10th try "Golden Challenge" and make some kind of jackpot thing if the player double the stake.

  Not many would be able to resist that, but of course, almost everyone would lose :)