Read the AMA, some interesting stuff in there. Micon did pretty much duck the question regarding reducing the krill freerolls.
They're not as reduced as you might think. They're less frequent, but considering the vast increases in the value of Bitcoin, are either almost as good or possibly even better than the previous krillroll setup.
I do think there should probably be more krillrolls for lower krill players just because people like to play poker, but I think the main issue there is the shitty Briggs software can't deal with 500+ players.
1) IMO the krillrolls are dialed in to start 2014. Casual players are able to get into the 1.25k and the 5k with low stakes and a few months of playing. The 25k, 50k and now 150k are for our pounders or the casual players that have been around for a long time. These are free coins given to our frequent players. The old system was waaaaaay too generous and I feel it's balanced now.
There is zero incentive for the avg player that comprise the site and its almost a slap in face to have 150krill with 5k in chipsl given to a few players. The 5 bitcoin 150k krill is taking away too much from the masses for the few and should be changed.
1) By this logic, if we removed the 150k krill-roll you would be happier? it would no longer be a slap in the face? IMO the 5 coin 150k krillroll cannot take anything away from the masses - because it's not aimed at the masses, and uses no other resources that would usually be spewed to the masses. It is specifically for our frequent players that are huge krill-earners. If you are personally not a huge krill-earner that's ok too - there is a krillroll at every level. Think about when pokerstars introduced "Supernova Elite" - I remember being a massive multitabler of MTTs at the time, I looked at the promotion and it's value then did the calculation to see how many I would have to earn each week, and it was borderline impossible for me. While it seems like a fun personal challenge, I doubt I will ever dedicate a year of my life to going after that - it just wasn't for me - but that didn't stop me from taking advantage of the many other smaller promotions for playing. I never felt like 'Stars offering SNE was anything but a challenge to the top volume players. IMO think of the 150k krillroll the same way.