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Multi Accounts

• jiggsie 478 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 3:42 PM

  There seems to be members being "caught" with multi accounts lately and my Kudos to WGT for noticing and taking action. My question is why are some immediately being able to be re-instated.

  I realize that in some cases its not necessarily because they have more than one account themselves, but possibly more than one family member playing on their commuter and/or using the members credit card to buy credits. In the latter case it's a he said she said situation.

  I think WGT should not just arbitrarily  dismiss the violation, but instead of immediately re-instating them there should be at least a minimum of a 30 day suspension. They could have a 30, 60, 90day or 6 months or one year suspension depending on the severity of the violation. What WGT is saying, break the rules, give us an excuse and we'll reinstate you.

  Why have rules if you don't enforce them, wrong is wrong, and wrongs don't deserve rewards.

   

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 3:52 PM

  1 reason is most likely because to stop them they would have to ban their IP...since 99.99% of us have a dynamic IP they would have to ban a whole block of IP's which could/would affect other members....if they have a static IP that never changes then it would be no problem, however they could still use a proxy server to get in(talk about a f^#& meter)...lol

• Lobsterboy 4,729 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 4:28 PM

  jiggsie:

  I realize that in some cases its not necessarily because they have more than one account themselves, but possibly more than one family member playing on their commuter and/or using the members credit card to buy credits. In the latter case it's a he said she said situation.

  WGT cant know for sure so banning everyone who shares a computer, credit card and/or IP address is wrong in my book.

  A very good friend of mine was recently banned and I can tell you for sure she wasn't multi-accounting . . . she was letting 2 friends play WGT on her computer.

  I reported someone to WGT who has so many accounts it's untrue and the reply I got was "thank you for letting us know about this player". The player isn't playing on all the accounts but still . . . WGT rules state you can't have more than 1 account.

  The player is still on here . .

• HWei 534 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 5:36 PM

  Plain and simple for all MULTI ACCOUNT resort to this for all

  

   

   

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 8:31 PM

  I can't speak without knowing details, so if you have a specific report, please contact me privately or send us an email to members@worldgolftour.com

• pjctas0822 4,621 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 11:06 PM

  HWei:

  Plain and simple for all MULTI ACCOUNT resort to this for all

  

   

   

   

  There is no real money to be made other than the pro shop stuff which IMO isnt worth nothing to begin with. Thats not the main motive.

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 11:26 PM

  It's at least 100 bucks for each multi to gift him good equipment, it's the balls he uses and - not to forget - the rake of the matches and RGs he may play. All this originates from real $$ being sucked out of other pockets - good revenue AFAIS.

  What else if not that? The true number of users counting in advert deals?

• pjctas0822 4,621 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 11:58 PM

  alosso:

  It's at least 100 bucks for each multi to gift him good equipment, it's the balls he uses and - not to forget - the rake of the matches and RGs he may play. All this originates from real $ being sucked out of other pockets - good revenue AFAIS.

  What else if not that? The true number of users counting in advert deals?

  Yes but WGT gets a rake of all of that so now what. Its a problem that existed from day 1 but it isnt a problem for WGT and thats what being in business is all about. Right or wrong doesnt matter in a corporation so we are beating a dead horse. Enjoy the game for what its worth and dont worry about this issue is my opinion.

• HWei 534 Posts

  Sat, Nov 16 2013 5:12 AM

  pjctas0822:

  HWei:

  Plain and simple for all MULTI ACCOUNT resort to this for all

  

   

   

   

   

  There is no real money to be made other than the pro shop stuff which IMO isnt worth nothing to begin with. Thats not the main motive.

  I know that its just not to make point  ,IMHO whether its no $$$$ involved .So, whit that being said its for PROFIT .

     EDIT :So, consider it as to how E1 here will see it .