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Sky Freerolls Feedback
Hey Sky.
FYI !
Not liking the new rule that you have to earn pts since midday to qualify for the freerolls. I imagine Im not alone in simply not having the time to earn pts from midday to 7pm as most of us are working and travelling at this time! Yet if I build up my pts later in the day and I cannot use these points to enter freerolls? Please bring it back to the last 24 hours so it can be fair on those playing the games at resonable times! No doubt I'll have some people bashing my request!
Also personally I was a big fan of the cash payouts in freerolls as opposed to the getting free seats. Certainly dont mind a mix but it seems they are all free seats now and no cash freerolls.
Thanks for listening!
Ger
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You already have any half decent freerolls played during the day when most people are working.
Then, the two main freerolls on the site, most people won't be able to play.
I get in, eat, put baby to bed (whilst playing freerolls, dad of the year!) and that routine doesn't finish till 19:30.
And sometimes the points don't update straight away anyway.
Like yesterday, I spent time grinding the points and managed to finish 5 mins before the end of late registration then had to sit out cause the points didn't update and I missed out anyway.
I guess someone in sky thought this was a good idea and have a good reason, but I fail to see what it is
Guess they're plugging for more avo traffic...might work?
Strange sky should do that.
Go back to 24 hours Sky, 12 -7 is a strange time frame when most people won't even be on till 7
In Response to Re: Sky Freerolls Feedback:
Good point ger a bit harsh sky changing it with such short notice i did not get in tonight till 6.50 tried too register get told i don't qualify and look and see the entry has changed.yet somehow had too hope 2 £5.50 games started and finished in 5 minutes too gain entry even though i made about 100 points last night!
Maybe the jobcentre contacted sky and offered them a back too work bonus for every player who gained entry!
Either way we will never know but very strange.
C-.....could do better.
Well it may seem ridiculous looking in from the outside, but perhaps it has some business logic behind it that we are not aware of?
Maybe they think it is a way to stimulate a little more traffic in the afternoons?
Every single player has different time availability, it's just not easy to please everyone.
As I replied to the other Gent, I would imagine it has been done this way for a reason.
Probably best to keep a close eye on the Freeroll Lobby for the next few weeks & montha, I gather that plan to try quite a few different things, & the schedule will chop & change a fair bit.
These Freerolls, over the course of a year, add up to a VERY big sum of money, so I think the Business has a right to try & make them as cost-effective as possible. In doing so, of course, they'll tread on a few toes along the way, sadly.
Well like most poker sites, & all UK/RIO facing ones especially, the busiest times are in the evening, yes.
So perhaps Sky Poker are deliberately promoting the Freerolls to help to stimulate demand when the site is less busy, in the afternoons?
That would seem, to me, a perfectly logical business model, no matter how unfortunate it is on those who cannot access the site earlier.
As it is a Freeroll, I think they should be able to give away their money in a way that best suits the business, don't you?
I think, though, as with all these things, that you have to start with the premise that they cannot please all of the people all of the time. It's just not possible!
The guys at Head Office are not daft, & they have access to squillions of gigalometres of data, daily, & when they do something which, to us, as players, looks odd, we should not auto assume the Suits are daft.
They have all the Data, & they will do things for a reason. We don't know that reason, but as sure as God made little apples, there will be some sound logic behind it. The site is doing VERY well right now. That's not an accident, it is because they are tweaking the right things.
One of the effects of this temporary change to Frererols is that it makes it more accessible to those who usually cannot play them, & less accessible to those who play them all, so it is spreading the cash around to a different subset of players. That has to be good, I would have thought.
I know some folks are upset that they have temporarily lost "their" Freerolls, but I do strongly believe that if a Business chooses to give away money (for business reasons, not because they are nice people) they should be able to give it away in a manner that best suits them.
The freerolls on Sky are far better as well, as opposed to some on other sites where you face 5,000+ fields and have to play for 4+ hours in order to bink $0.04. In fact, maybe I'm naive to what else is out there these days, but the total basket of bonuses available to recs seems far better on Sky (even if that may be at the expense of what is offered to regs).
I suppose the only query is that if the hypothesis is true about focusing on people gambling during the early afternoon... is that not targeting a skew towards people who are unemployed... which isn't necessarily aligned to 'responsible gambling'?