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WGT, are you JOKE?

• Danmark2010 805 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 12:43 PM

  Hoangvn10:

  Recently you set up almost RGs enter fee 100, 200 cr for all tiers. What can the winners will get with this HUGE credit tourneys? Biggest winner of 50 players get only 5x the fee they entered while almost others wastes money when they use 500 cr 0r 600 cr a sleeve of Nike & Max ball for these GREAT competitions. Whether or not is it worth to entry this such GREAT tourneys?

  You set up almost Legends biggest RGs with white tees & blue tees for the guys with 280-287 yard drivers. Many at par 4 holes, using driver they can hit balls pass over the pins. So what is the competition meaning here? or you try to make this game as good as closer to the f...k other cartoon games. You want to produce as soon as possible thousands 50s avg score shooters?

  If you said us you try to make this game as same as the real golf, you should introduce toughest conditions for biggest prizes tourneys (such as: legend tees, heavy winds, hole located hard, uneven lie...etc). I would like spend 1,000 - 4,000 cr entry fee for these competitions than throw out 100-200 cr for the f...k baby tee, cartoon game tourneys...

  Rethink pls WGT before it too late your nice game becoming cartoon game.

  Harder & Bigger are always Better.

   

  What do you want man? Ready go's should be possible olso for poor people so 200, 100cr 50 cr it is more popular then 2000,5000,or 1000.Dont forget this game is an on Virtual game no  a real one.I dont have $1000 for every month to speend on wgt.If you dont like it play on your CC and putt the prize us mach you wanted.Ready -Go should have more with 100 wgr cr  so on this way they can run 24H torney.

  Have a nice day

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• gedi83 277 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 2:22 PM

  I think he means that compared to ball prices the stakes are ridiculously small. Take a 550 credit ball - for it the expenditures are 30 credits per 9 holes (assuming no losses), so if you take into account rake, the effective rake for a 100 credit 9 hole RG is (30+20)/(30+100) = 38.4%.

  For a 50 credit RG it's even more ridiculous, (30+10)/(30+50) =50%.

  Yes, half!.. Meaning that you need to double your money just to stay even...

  And although using cheap balls may be tempting, in most cases this leads to significantly worse performance hence is not a good idea... It's like a vicious cycle that in order to be competitive in credit games one needs to use some the most pricey balls and in this way is forced to pay this ridiculous rake.

  And the only way to reduce this horrific rake other than reducing ball prices is to have higher stakes competitions, such as 500 credit ones for 18 holes or 200-300 credit ones for 9 holes

   

• DAZZA501 5,972 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 2:40 PM

  If they had to take away the gift cards then at least replace them with something else. Like real clubs for example. There used to be a full set of real clubs in the pro shop. I think they were about 900000 credits but that was my long term goal. Might of taken me a few years to get there but it was my goal still the same.Guess i'll just fill my closet full of golf shirts and hats now.

  gedi83:

  such as 500 credit ones for 18 holes or 200-300 credit ones for 9 holes

  If there can't be 1000cr RG's then i'd like to see about 3x500cr 18holers along with a few 9 hole 200-300 ones

• gedi83 277 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 3:04 PM

  I think they know well what we want and why we want it, and for particularly that reason they won't give it to us, because they think that people will just do nothing (i.e. keep playing) while WGT collects excessive rake from ball sales...

  How about some of the folks with many credits create a country club, where in order to be admitted players would need to prove that they actually spend money regularly and where the "rich Santa" (i.e. founder) would generously fund tourneys with prizes as an alternative to this spending. This would have a similar effect as the black market (i.e. drain WGT's income), but perfectly legal, not against any rules :)

  Sure it's mean, but they have been mean too, and sometimes it takes protest and disobedience to fix a problem. Remember that Professional Sandbaggers CC, and the reform for how averages are computed came... ;)

• DAZZA501 5,972 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 3:11 PM

  gedi83:

  How about some of the folks with many credits create a country club, where in order to be admitted players would need to prove that they actually spend money regularly and where the "rich Santa" (i.e. founder) would generously fund tourneys with prizes as an alternative to this spending. This would have a similar effect as the black market (i.e. drain WGT's income), but perfectly legal, not against any rules :)

  There are many players who already do this in CC's. I give most of what i win away to my members in the way of prizes or gifts to help them out.

• gedi83 277 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 3:41 PM

  DAZZA501:

  There are many players who already do this in CC's. I give most of what i win away to my members in the way of prizes or gifts to help them out.

  I did some gifting too, but I mean rather to select only those people who pay regularly, which I suppose are a minority. Helping non-payers is nice but doesn't hurt WGT's income.

• Boomerboy44 1,514 Posts

  Tue, Jul 23 2013 5:49 PM

  Didn't I read in the  forums   awhile  back that people with a lot of credits where selling 3000/4000  credits for $20 sent to a pay-pal account?? This would explain why they are not doing HSRG's anymore. 

• Funkyjunkie3000 722 Posts

  Wed, Jul 24 2013 3:12 AM

  the high stakes RG's stopped way b4 the BM became popular
  
  i think the real reason they wer stopped is because 95% of players that play in them have a credit bankroll meaning they dont deposit to the game (no profit for WGT)
  
  Where as the lower RG's still attract depositing players, tempting them to deposit to the game and play in 1, where if it was a 2000 RG they wouldnt even consider it
  
  explanation in short
  
  you spend money wgt likes you.... if you dont spend your on your own

• gedi83 277 Posts

  Wed, Jul 24 2013 5:55 AM

  It's a bit pathetic if they care only about money and not talent. Very silly short-term thinking that is unfortunately all too common in the corporate world, but for such small companies especially damaging.

  If that is the case, why not then make the game only for those who can pay (even a symbolic amount, as there are people, like me, who are not short of money, but in principle don't agree to pay a dime for internet entertainment, thinking that it should be financed differently).

  Sure they would lose many (perhaps most) members, but for the paying folks it will be less competition thus more chance to win, and no need to waste the time for the rest of us...

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Wed, Jul 24 2013 9:23 AM

   

  Funkyjunkie3000:

  explanation in short

  
  you spend money wgt likes you.... if you dont spend your on your own

  Agreed....just like any other online business who's main aim is to make as much money as they can, while they can.