Jimbog1964:
I am not yet sure WGT get the magnitude of what they have done.
They were cagey with information before this rolled out, and some of that was the speed it rushed through but a lot was down to withholding information too.
For some good time I have been dubious over any XP race. It's a measure of passes used as much as anything, and to therefore call it a measure of clubs activity is nefarious anyway. Any one going for that after this I think needs to think what they are supporting. Fine use a free pass, and that will give as good a measure as any other anyway and probably more accurately.
What WGT should be doing is apologising for this ill contrived debacle which transpired through design or ignorance to a rort. WGT need to think long and hard as what they have done is very serious, very serious indeed. This is a business and ignorance is not a defense is not an excusable reason, and so credits should also be refunded.
If anyone chases this nonsense again well I don't understand it for one.
An excellent and well balanced post Jim.
The one thing it has exposed IMO is the XP race has really not been thought through, and they are making it up as they go along.
I will not go as far as saying I will not spend at all, as I still like this game, despite the downfalls of glitches that are never fixed and new bugs that are introduced due to bungling programmers.
But nor will I ever spend a cent on buying another pass as I dont not see the benefit apart from bragging right for the large clubs. As it is I play less and less due to the bugs so the result is I contribute less and less to the coffers - build a stable product and I will play more.
For a long time prices have gone up (new equipment - the G25's is a classic example) yet the quality of the product has diminished. Now we have had a total debacle that even 1st grader could have foreseen the problems, yet no real apologies, especially from the senior management at WGT.
I will not even mention the abusurdities of developing "super equipment" that will eventually kill the game and become another TW by being too easy for the likes of everyone - it is fast approaching that now - all in the name of greed.
The simple fact is they should have canned the event, refunded all the passes and ball use and openly admitted that this was a monumental c0ckup.
But in typical WGT style, we get very little in the way of an admission.
I suppose next week we will get a sleeve of balls or a free something weekend as they go into damage control - pity some members will have probably gone for good by then, others will play less and spend less, and virtually everyone will have that bad taste in their mouths.