Quote: Originally Posted By colonels19 on 3/03/2010These last 4 or 5 comments have only supported my stance that you guys have been over-spoiled because of reward points....god forbid you'd actually have to pay to play this game...like I said, regardless of how good you are. WIS made a mistake at the beginning by giving away so many points and now they can never take them away because longtime freeloaders would just kick and scream until they changed it back...kind of like what's happening now. WIS is in business to do business
Trust me, I knew the change was coming, especially in the sportsbook which was/is a great idea, but so underused that there were multiple seasons I'd sweep 1st, 2nd & 3rd w/ my 3 accounts in crum. And reward points there were significantly better than what you'd get playing the actual game. 2,000 for 1st, 1,000 for 2nd and 500 for 3rd. Often times it would be only me and my 3 accounts and 1 other coach actually fighting it out for reward points.
I was spoiled, and knew it at the time, however I didn't cut back because I wasn't getting as many reward points. I've grown tired of the game, its grown stale, just as most other games are. At the same time, I've picked up 2 HBD teams because I enjoy the depth of the game much, much more. I wish HD had as much depth, its almost laughable how little control you have in HD compared to HBD, and HBD is far from perfect or as deep as it could be.
Additionally, all that time playing for free, I'd like to think I generated money for WIS in other ways. I ran an OOC tournament for several seasons in D3 when I know 1 coach that hanged on for a few extra seasons just because of the tournament and coaches in it. I competed in 2 highly competitive D3 conferences that attracted many other successful coaches to re-up additional teams. I mentored several new coaches that came into my D3 conferences and would like to think that my guidance helped them understand the game a little better than they would have on their own and helped them fall victim to the same addicition I found here early on in my experience.
On top of that, I don't think my story is all that unique. Prior to the cut back of D3 reward points, there were a bunch of very successful D3 coaches hanging around crum w/ multiple accounts in crum. Most were more than willing to help out new coaches, teach them the ropes and walk them thru the initial stages of the game. D3 crum was a great experience during those early days from the 3P power poll, thru the ASC mega conference, rivalries all over the place, etc... Slowly those coaches w/ multiple accounts dropped their D3 accounts, or moved them up to D1 and D3 crum fell into a virtual wasteland.
Did I complain about the cutbacks in reward points? probably a bit, but I'm pretty much a capatilist and knew it wasn't my business to tell them their business. My guess is most were the same way, and voted the only way consumers can vote, by cutting back teams as they see fit. Once you cut one team that perhaps you were playing for free with, and get rid of the "emotional" investment, you realize its not that big of a deal to drop other teams that they might be spending real money on. I know I'm not the only one that has taken way too much interest in these sets of 1s & 0s w/ fake names from real high schools that we spend fake recruiting dollars on and put into game plans over the internet. Heck, I had 3 teams in crum at 1 point, because as I worked up the ladder w/ my first team, I wanted to see my 1st class thru at ferrum, so I created a 2nd account, and eventually a 3rd account to maintain ferrum many seasons after even my 1st recruiting class had graduated.