dinghy, vpfree2 info. not accurate, at least not yet.
SE has shot themselves in the foot with some dumb decisions. The points change, awhile back, put VP at
a 1-4 disadvantage to slotees for point related comps. And then to tell VP players that we can earn our
premium play, bonuses, and other FP on VP but we cannot play it there was the last insult that caused
many top card people to disappear. Gated Diamond parking is empty, VP machines are way down, as the bartenders will testify.
Hotel occupancy is in the tank. I get free room offers above and beyond my regular nights.
Their new wiz-bang Ruth Chris had 6 people at prime dinner time last night.
But the good VP pay-tables are still there. Bar #1 has all new machines but 9-6 JOB 25c -$2 still there. The other 3 bars still have old bar-tops with good JOB from 5c -$1 and Bar #2 has NSUD and DDB at 99.73 or maybe slightly better. Not sure not my game.
Many free standing banks of Bally,s and IGT slan-tops thru-out the place.
So the machines are still there but the players are voting with their feet.
As I stated before i have backed way off. When my FP fades away not sure what we will do.
You posed a very good question in your post.
What would I do differently?
My view of what they are doing is trying to identify, and weed out, Advantage VP players.
Easily done with the computers list of positive coin-in coin-out players on VP only. Tack on hand-pays
and, like magic, the culprits jump right out at you. We are "hoist on our own Petard".
If i were running the business i honestly might do the same damn thing, and make the same mistake.
The mistake being driving out a multitude of players peripheral to the "culprits". Wives and friends who play other games. For example keno. The games being mostly on Machines that have VP on them their shutout too.
A lot of babies wnt out with the bath water.