spdemon:or read this
Wow. Talk about double-speaking, knee-high ***. Thx, spdemon for posting that for me, it answered many questions for me. Though I couldn't stop laughing at much of what was said, and how it was said.
"Essentially, the patent is for legal protection. It does give us the right to change the properties of clubs and balls, which we do often, but mainly it is for protecting the legal side of WGT. The only reasons we would do this is for balancing or bug correcting purposes."
Okay, this guy is speaking as if he were a lawyer himself. What exactly is 'balancing'? My guess would be just what I've been saying. When a player gets too hot and their avg. is dropping ever so consistently, which will soon have them at the next tier, wgt 'balances' their ass out and slows their charge up the ranks down. Balance.
"Does WGT have the capability to manipulate individual player's equipment?" The answer is yes, we have the capability to do nearly anything to anyone, any course, any time, anywhere. The next question you should ask is "Does the video game I play operate in such an underhanded way that they would practice this capability?"
Is there anyone here who would answer no to that last question? Is it really possible and just coincidence that, if I buy 3 sleeves at once, there is no doubt at some point, I will lose 2-4 of those balls in less than an hour's time? It's happened every single time I've bought in 'bulk', so to speak. And even if I'm flat wrong on that, here's the part that just kicks me right in the ass.
"This is essentially what this question boils down to - yes, WGT has the power to manipulate the environment and/or clubs and balls they produce. Do you believe us when we say that we don't do so in an individual, unknown, shady deal but rather in a public, across the board manner that affects every player the exact same way?"
This is the double talk I mentioned. For one thing, 'across the board that affects every player the same" could very easily mean any player moving along at a pace faster than we like will have VEM kick in for a week or so on them. It could mean that just as easily as it could mean whatever the hell this person is saying, and not very successfully.
And good God! I haven't played a game on the internet that doesn't screw you, usually, in several different ways. Point being, if we want to play we must accept the fact we will be bent over on a regular basis. So, the writer of this has no point. An attempt at making one yes, but it seems he got too caught up in worrying about saying the wrong thing, and very little ended up making any sense.
But, the absolute worst part is the last paragraph.
"When someone passionately devotes so much time and effort into mastering a game, it is inevitable that at certain times they will fail when they feel the opposite outcome should have happened. The natural reaction that humans come to when they think they have all their bases covered but still fail is transference."
This must be broken down to show the severe inaccuracies. "it is inevitable that at certain times they will fail when they feel the opposite outcome should have happened." More double-talk and BS as well. Okay, with the words 'certain times' he covered his ass on this, but for me, and I've said it right here, I am fully aware when I screw up and have no problems admitting to myself and moving on. It's the times when you have 12 putts in a round lip out that would have been birdies that I start thinking of 3 letters.
And I'm dying to see this person's PhD in Psychiatry. It absolutely is NOT a human-being's 'natural' reaction to blame someone or something else when things don't go their way. That is the behavior of an addict or alcoholic or a narcissist, or a politician, who's normally all 3. I truly can't believe the complete *** that is the last paragraph of this horribly written, extremely vague, and simply non-factual piece of dung, & an attempt at making things up that sound as if they could be right, in order to lead as many wgt players away from the topic of VEM, and whether they are being screwed or not.
The answer to that is a booming YES!! And if this poor excuse for an excuse doesn't make it clear that wgt only cares about $$, just like 99% of the rest of the sites on the web, then nothing ever will for those who still believe wgt is on the up and up. If I wasn't so tired right now I'd demolish that entire post, line by line, and plan to soon.