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Today, BBO again increased a lot of proces. Zenith with 100%. No announcement at all. For me, this is the last drop. I quit playing if this is what they want. After the acquisition it is only about increasing profits. In General, communication about fraud, misbehaviour etc had also become non-existent. Difficult to complain and no answers.
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100% price increase without notice
#2
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Posted Yesterday, 09:47
Was there an announcement over the weekend that perhaps I missed? I see nothing here in the forums.
I get the need for BBO to remain solvent and to raise revenue, but not announcing a major price increase in advance is a very bad look folks. My longtime concern has been with the Robot Reward games, which are my favorites and which are dying a slow death. They're now $2 a play. I haven't tried one yet today, but is the rake still 30% (which it has been for the past year or two)? If so, that's just brutal. It killed the $5 game, and it will eventually kill the $1/$2 game. Raise the entry fee if you must, but at least give us players a break and go back to a 20% rake.
I get the need for BBO to remain solvent and to raise revenue, but not announcing a major price increase in advance is a very bad look folks. My longtime concern has been with the Robot Reward games, which are my favorites and which are dying a slow death. They're now $2 a play. I haven't tried one yet today, but is the rake still 30% (which it has been for the past year or two)? If so, that's just brutal. It killed the $5 game, and it will eventually kill the $1/$2 game. Raise the entry fee if you must, but at least give us players a break and go back to a 20% rake.
#3
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Posted Yesterday, 10:33
I am glad finally someone raised this matter. It's not okay.
#4
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Posted Yesterday, 15:49
Hire of an "Advanced" robot hiked from 49 cents to 59 cents.
That is +20% in a year and +136% in 4 years (with not one of the tens of reported bugs fixed).
That is +20% in a year and +136% in 4 years (with not one of the tens of reported bugs fixed).
#5
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Posted Yesterday, 20:21
It's not long ago, within our memory, that BBO was a great bridge platform made and run by bridge players for the bridge players. It brought players all over the world together. Meanwhile they ran some low fee games that were creative and fun, to keep the platform self-sustainable.
But now things have decayed, by corporate greed. The evidence of corporate greed is everywhere nowadays, BBO is just a small part of it. It is eating our quality of live away slowly. In order to stop it, we need the awareness of the majority population. Yet, sadly, it seems impossible to achieve. As long as the greedy ones keep spending money brain washing us to believe that the problems stem from foreign entities -- illegal immigrants, bad trade deals, climate change hoax -- their misdirection tactic will remain triumphant.
(Hope I won't get banned by posting this.)
But now things have decayed, by corporate greed. The evidence of corporate greed is everywhere nowadays, BBO is just a small part of it. It is eating our quality of live away slowly. In order to stop it, we need the awareness of the majority population. Yet, sadly, it seems impossible to achieve. As long as the greedy ones keep spending money brain washing us to believe that the problems stem from foreign entities -- illegal immigrants, bad trade deals, climate change hoax -- their misdirection tactic will remain triumphant.
(Hope I won't get banned by posting this.)
#6
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Posted Today, 03:41
To be fair, there are still many good things about BBO. It provides fun and instruction, it offers many free activities, it has many fine features, and it gives various cash awards.
Having said that, there have been far too many blatant price grabs in the past couple of years, and many of them have been ridiculously high - at least on a percentage basis. Raising the cost of the Zenith by "only" a dollar is not much in actual cash, but is HUGE percentagewise, as it DOUBLES the cost (from one dollar to two) in a SINGLE step. In what other business - anywhere - can the proprietors get away with this type of repulsive price gouging?
This is even worse, considering that the Zenith used to award 80% of the total entry fees BBO collected for each day's game to the players who finished in the top 30% of the field. Then, all of a sudden, in early January 2023 that pool of cash rewards was reduced - in one fell swoop (just like this latest HUGE increase) from 80% to 70%. That happened at the same time that BBO increased its prices on several other games it offers. Many price increases have continued since then, but it seems that this HUNDRED percent increase (!) is the most glaring cash grab of them all.
It would at least be more palatable if BBO improved some of its weaknesses, but with the NABC currently going on in Las Vegas, there have been many issues - and many complaints - about BBO's technological failures with its Vugraph presentations. Furthermore, anyone who plays frequently is certainly aware of other BBO technological issues that occur on a not infrequent basis.
Worst of all are their execrable GIB robots, which are absolutely atrocious. They play a very poor system, they are really bad at bidding, really bad at defending, really bad at leading, and not even particularly good at declaring (which is the "strongest" part of their game). It is in SPITE of the wretched GIB robots that the games are still usually enjoyable, not BECAUSE of the GIB robots, which are often sources of annoyance, irritation, and contempt.
Fortunately, consumers of any product have the option of voting with their feet. I play the Zenith every single day, and I quite enjoy it - but even I am thinking of putting on my shoes and walking!
Having said that, there have been far too many blatant price grabs in the past couple of years, and many of them have been ridiculously high - at least on a percentage basis. Raising the cost of the Zenith by "only" a dollar is not much in actual cash, but is HUGE percentagewise, as it DOUBLES the cost (from one dollar to two) in a SINGLE step. In what other business - anywhere - can the proprietors get away with this type of repulsive price gouging?
This is even worse, considering that the Zenith used to award 80% of the total entry fees BBO collected for each day's game to the players who finished in the top 30% of the field. Then, all of a sudden, in early January 2023 that pool of cash rewards was reduced - in one fell swoop (just like this latest HUGE increase) from 80% to 70%. That happened at the same time that BBO increased its prices on several other games it offers. Many price increases have continued since then, but it seems that this HUNDRED percent increase (!) is the most glaring cash grab of them all.
It would at least be more palatable if BBO improved some of its weaknesses, but with the NABC currently going on in Las Vegas, there have been many issues - and many complaints - about BBO's technological failures with its Vugraph presentations. Furthermore, anyone who plays frequently is certainly aware of other BBO technological issues that occur on a not infrequent basis.
Worst of all are their execrable GIB robots, which are absolutely atrocious. They play a very poor system, they are really bad at bidding, really bad at defending, really bad at leading, and not even particularly good at declaring (which is the "strongest" part of their game). It is in SPITE of the wretched GIB robots that the games are still usually enjoyable, not BECAUSE of the GIB robots, which are often sources of annoyance, irritation, and contempt.
Fortunately, consumers of any product have the option of voting with their feet. I play the Zenith every single day, and I quite enjoy it - but even I am thinking of putting on my shoes and walking!
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