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The old payout system for ready go back..vote here

• Covenant 1,498 Posts

  Sat, Jan 29 2011 12:27 AM

  ccrume:

  ncviz:

  The only thing that makes sense to me is they want to phase these out. Maybe it's just not the $ maker most of us think it is.

  WGT does not make a dime from the RGs, any more than they do from the pro shop, the take from MPCs or anything else involving virtual credits.

  The only time they make $ is when deposits are made into players' accounts.

  I suspect - but have no proof - that a high % of players who 'spend' credits playing a lot of RGs have enough to burn, and many of those (like me) 'won' enough to avoid having to fork over real dollars for virtual golf balls.

  I also suspect that it's no coincidence that the diminished RG payouts happened at the same time as the introduction of the Callaway ball. Many people who start using that will get hooked. It will 'cost' more to buy them. Players will participate in fewer RG tournaments. Eventually, they will run out of credits and have to fork over real money.

  Then, the rationalization will set in...hey, $5 or $10 a month ain't too bad.

  If you ask me, it's a damn good business strategy. Sucks from the player point of view though...

  WGT makes of course money out of the ready go's. The inlay is 100 credits per for 50 players, the prize money is just 4000 credits, thats 1000 credits per game for WGT.

  In the hole of things thats not that much, but you still have to buy stuff to compete in those

• ccrume 138 Posts

  Sat, Jan 29 2011 6:40 AM

  Covenant:

  WGT makes of course money out of the ready go's. The inlay is 100 credits per for 50 players, the prize money is just 4000 credits, thats 1000 credits per game for WGT.

  Not trying to be argumentative - my prior post was just pointing out that these credits are not real money. WGT's profits do not increase directly from each RG that is played - only indirectly if and when players deposit more money in their accounts.

• ncviz 527 Posts

  Sat, Jan 29 2011 6:58 AM

  ccrume:

  Not trying to be argumentative - my prior post was just pointing out that these credits are not real money. WGT's profits do not increase directly from each RG that is played - only indirectly if and when players deposit more money in their accounts.

  Seems like you are trying to be argumentative, you've said this once already. All some of us are questioning is how much does RGs affect the revenue stream they have coming in. Of course credits aren't real money, but most all of us deposited something at some point. Does that end up getting spent @ the RG? Either in the form of payins, clubs, ball, whatever.

• ccrume 138 Posts

  Sat, Jan 29 2011 7:03 AM

  ncviz:

  Seems like you are trying to be argumentative, you've said this once already.

  You're right, my bad.

   

• yourmaster 20 Posts

  Sat, Jan 29 2011 7:39 AM

  BOTTOM LINE THIS IS ***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please stop tinkering with game, everything you people do makes it less fun EVERYTIME. From new courses to new tees to new tiers, IT ALL SUCKS. Yes it's free, but free piles of dog *** aren't that desireable!!

  Oh and i almost forgot something.  Fix the *** meter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Sat, Jan 29 2011 9:03 PM

  Bring back the old payout system!. It's ok if you do finish in the top2, but ya need to shoot in the 20's to that with most of them. The new system is unfair to aot of players cause if ya shoot 31,32 which are pretty good scores ya getting  65-90cr back, which is a loss. In the old system, you might still have to shoot in the 20's but if you do shoot 31,32 then you would have got more than the entree fee.

  cheers

         Roger

• Jobeak 105 Posts

  Sun, Jan 30 2011 12:38 AM

  I think we are floggin a dead horse here. The ads that we all complained about between holes are still there. Yes, they are not as off putting since the last update. My point is, WGT will not listen to us, no matter how we complain. So I would'nt expect Ready Go's to revert to the old system.

  The way the system is set up now, maybe 4 people out of 50 will profit. That leaves 46 people losing money every competition. By the lay of averages, that would leave more people having to lodge more money. Thats just my take on it anyway.

• Bazatar 4 Posts

  Sun, Jan 30 2011 10:21 AM

  +1

• Tresclub 934 Posts

  Sun, Jan 30 2011 9:42 PM

  I wonder how the RGs would go if the payouts were constructed much like the irl PGA Tour:

  #       % of Purse

  =============

  1 0.18000

  2 0.10800

  3 0.06800

  4 0.04800

  5 0.04000

  6 0.03600

  7 0.03350

  8 0.03100

  9 0.02900

  10 0.02700

  11 0.02500

  12 0.02300

  13 0.02100

  14 0.01900

  15 0.01800

  16 0.01700

  17 0.01600

  18 0.01500

  19 0.01400

  20 0.01300

  21 0.01200

  22 0.01120

  23 0.01040

  24 0.00960

  25 0.00880

  26 0.00800

  27 0.00770

  28 0.00740

  29 0.00710

  30 0.00680

  31 0.00650

  32 0.00620

  33 0.00590

  34 0.00565

  35 0.00540

  36 0.00515

  37 0.00490

  38 0.00470

  39 0.00450

  40 0.00430

  41 0.00410

  42 0.00390

  43 0.00370

  44 0.00350

  45 0.00330

  46 0.00310

  47 0.00290

  48 0.00274

  49 0.00260

  50 0.00252

• Seekerb 651 Posts

  Sun, Jan 30 2011 11:02 PM

  You have my vote against the new payout structure for ready Go's but I doubt whether it will have any effect. 

  To me wgt are a rotten company with a good product. I look forward to them doing something fatal because then they might listen to a broader spectrum.  But I dont think whatever they do will be fatal because too many of us addicted to this game.  But I certainly am going to stop playing ready go's until I am a better player.  It seems to me that the better players already have more credits than they can use.  A lot of them could buy out the pro shop several times.  To increase their prize money and reduce the prize money for the lesser positions certainly means that I am out.   I did this before the level system was introduced but then when the level system was introduced, because i was a tour master I started winning more credits.  But not now as a Legend i am not in the race. 

  If wgt need to increase revenue there are fairer ways to do it than this.  I dont mind paying a fair price for a product.  I will do that for the time being by buying balls.

  But this will only work if we all pull out on mass.

  I appreciate Bolix making his comments as one of the top players> i guess they should take some interest in that we might reach the time when the top players start using up each other credits, instead of having lesser players regularly visiting the bank