Um, if I didn't respect
the "one free shot" rule then it wouldn't be much of a rule, would it?
In all fairness that rule is there to help newcomers, like you guys were once, as much as anything else: if it was open season on the PABs then we simply wouldn't have the resources to handle them all and that would mean the newcomers would never get a chance to PAB.
Anyway, that said, I have flagged
the rep on this thread. As has been said, hopefully they'll be able to have a look into this.
I think there is a "public interest" case here. It is looking as though GoWild have cast the "bonus abuse" net further than could ever be justified. It is looking more and more as though it is merely the CHOICE OF GAME that is at issue, not whether any "abusive strategy" was involved.
If the playlogs from ether simply show what would be considered "normal Blackjack play", then this is simply Go Wild applying game exclusions through the back door, while pretending that EZBonus rules prevail. They now have it as a "slots only" bonus, but surely enforcing "slots only" before this date through the use of the "F U Clause" cannot be acceptable.
Since ether has already made one PAB, you should know how credible his claim might be.
Sticking to your rule will not help him, bot it will send out a CLEAR MESSAGE that we SHOULD NEVER TRY new casinos, however well presented, UNTIL they have achieved CM accreditation. This will make it very hard on casinos who want to join the forum with the intent that members try the casino and give views, and these casinos will find they have to come straight from nowhere to accreditation.
Go Wild has a profile that would usually send out all the warning signs of a rogue, the ONLY thing they had in their favour was choice of Microgaming as their software provider. They are NOT holders of the eCogra seal (no help there), they are licensed by Malta (no help there either), they are now blaming everything on a new deity (their "outsourcing company"), which is the classic "rogue" defence, deny responsibilty and refuse to communicate further.
Fro the spectacularly botched launch, this "outsourcing company" has come out looking as though they are not fit for anything, let alone being let loose on important decisions as to whether players have broken the rules or not.
Even IF players used strategies that were "classics" in the realms of advantage play, it was NOT against their rules, and the CM principle in such cases is to pay the player, and rethink the rules, even suspend the promotion altogether.
Go Wild are STILL setting up players for the same treatment, they are offering an alternative bonus that STILL allows all games, yet seem to routinely consider any kind of play on certain games as automatic bonus abuse.
Now, players have absolutely NO idea how wide a definition of "bonus abuse" is being used, and this will lead to a steady drying up of business, and they will not manage to gain a FULL Malta license (they don't actually HAVE one, by the way - I looked, but they have a "letter of intent"). It seems this is the same position that Villa Fortuna were in, they sent out those invites as they required to achieve a certain level of player activity to qualify for their gaming license - they said so themselves - an MG casino would hardly lie about this kind of thing, would they
when they're put out to pasture!
) and useful posts.
