The reason they don't do them all comes down to economics. This post isn't meant to disagree with anyone wanting highstakes, as I don't. I am all for them. However WGT's job as a business is to maintain some kind of ratio of credits that are being put into the system or are already there to the actually real dollars that are coming in via ads and people spending their hard eanred money
When they do high stakes ready gos, it doesn't make them any money. Typically it is the same group of people who play them and that group already have stockpiles of credits in their bank. It is very rare to have have a player plonk down 10 or 20 bucks of real money so they can enter them. Its more likely people will do that for smaller credits entries.
Then after they start turning over and paying out, one of a few things happens:
1. The person who already had tons of credits just makes more and does nothing with them and they just sit there, or they go to fund balls and equipment, but most players at that level already have more than enough credits to fund gear.
2. Those high level players stockpile enough credits to purchase one of those trips in the elite colection. WGT then has to either shell out their own money to pay for that trip or call in favors or something to get that trip taken care of.
3. That person stockpiles credits, but not enough to buy a trip, then just uses all those extra credits to gift things to people, or worse start another account. By gifting, those people recieving the gifts don't have to watch ads or spend money to get that gear. Its possible those people never would have, but if they love the game, eventually they will use the free credits option or pay money to get better equipment.
#1 is best case scenario for WGT as it costs them nothing, they just don't make money. #2 and 3 can actually cost them money
Additionally, it is only a small group of people asking for them, so maybe WGT just figures why cater to such a small group, lets focus on the masses. I can't say I agree with this mentality, because in my opinion if you, as a company, are willing to do that to a small group of people, then you are probably willing to do it to your entire customer base, which seems to be a running sentiment around here with a lot of people
As I said, I don't mind seing them. I don't enter them all that often as I don't feel my game is at quite the level it needs to be to be competitve in them. Just my two cents as to why this group of people keep asking for them and yet it continues to fall on deaf ears.