Absolutely srellim. Charlemagne, you live on another planet. Only a tiny minority of people play here to make money. (To be honest I wouldn't have though it would be worth the time. How much do you make an hour here?)
The problem is entirely that people can't buy the clubs they want or need and it's a ludicrous system: Totally unrealistic and totally unprofitable. Let beginners have uber-drivers with fast meter speeds. If they can handle it they'll rocket up the ratings and rightly so and if they can't they won't (and will look a bit daft losing to people with beginner clubs). Every one will be happy (except a few masters and legends who'll be disappointed to find more people at their level). The beginners get nice kit. WGT make sales they would not have made otherwise.
It is a very, very bad business model. That is why it is not replicated anywhere else in the world in any other business! WGT are not business geniuses forging a new path. It seems to me they are exercising power for the sake of it: "Let's restrict people because we can" (evil laugh). I can see no other explanation for such bizarre behaviour. For some reason everybody else accepts it as reasonable or even sensible.
Cater to the masses WGT. That's the route to profit in any market. Catering to the elite is never profitable. Ask FIAT where their profits come from - it ain't Ferrari.
One last thought, I wonder what PING and other manufacturers who kindly let WGT use their trademarks would think about their products being kept from being used:
- Every player with a PING club is advertising that club.
- Every player refused a PING club is a source of advertising that PING have been denied.
- How happy about that would they be I wonder?
Don't tell me it's a good business model. It so obviously is bad for all.