I'm curious, why are so few players on swc? I would think lots of people would prefer BTC over banking and all the verification and waiting. Or are they playing on other btc site?
Time to read the thread dude. The main reason why is that their old, cross-platform, working software was abandoned for a buggy, windows-only software. I think the majority of the old players simply cannot connect or when the do connect there are too many bugs.
The old software was a lot less stable than the new one. When was the last time you actually logged on?
the connection problems are nearly non existant for me and most players on the site, sure disconnects and bugs happen from time to time, but I'd still ratehr play here than a site that steals and cheats their players like Betcoin.
I don't think he can log on lol because they don't offer a client that he can use. The old Mavens software seemed fine to me; it's been some time now, but I don't really recall ever having any issues with it. The new software is okay for me except for that one, massive, unforgivable bug of not producing any meaningful hand histories (that hasn't been fixed in over a year now lol). On a related note, I do think universal accessibility is a major issue--tbf, it is an issue that a lot of other sites still don't address. It's just a bummer because the old Seals was pretty universally accessible so we had gotten used to being able to play from a variety of platforms. Again, not an issue unique to SwC but c'mon, this isn't 1999 anymore and so many of us use stuff other than Windows. I hear ya on the availability of Virtualbox/VMware/w.e but those are honestly pretty resource-intensive and a bitch to run. Again, this isn't a problem afflicting only SwC--a lot of poker sites just seem completely oblivious to non-Windows clients. The main reason we're bitching about it with SwC is because the new management sort of promised us repeatedly more than a year ago that these were coming, and it doesn't seem like they've made even the slightest progress on that front.
Tbh, I would strongly consider the merits of going back to the Mavens software (not sure if the new management has any ownership or control over the custom Mavens that Seals 1.0 ran) because there are quite a few of us non-Windows folks.