Quote from: panjul07 on Today at 04:00:45 PM

Quote from: Juggy777 on July 28, 2020, 01:41:59 PM

@MICRO I agree with @Kakmakr that this rise is not a good move as it’ll completely wipe out small gamblers from the chat, and it’ll send a wrong message to them that you’ll don’t care for them. Furthermore I understand that the chat can turn spammy at times, but for few rotten users punishing every small gambler is not nice therefore I’m hoping that Stake will reconsider this.

I cant agree that the decision from Stake to increase the wager requirement to use chat is punishing small gambler.
I consider myself as small gambler who bet small amount on every bet. Real small gambler (who want to play with their own deposit) wont really care about this requirement.
Small players should focus on betting with their own style and limit without focusing to wager in order to be able to chat.
Sooner or later small gambler will wager $500 even if they bet few cents only every bet.
Unless the main purpose for the gambler is just to chat to get rains/tips for free, then it will be like a very hard thing to do.

Listen, let's be realistic here..... a small time gambler are not going to spend $100s of Dollars to wager $500 ....just to be able to make use of the rain/tips in the chat channel. Most of those tips goes back into the site in any way, so they are not losing a cent. (If the gambler giving the tips are not gambling it himself, then the person receiving the tips will gamble it away on the site.)

I can see that the spamming in the chat channel could become an issue, but a lot of the popular characters in the chat channel before the $500 increase are gone now. (The channel is a community thing... some people stay longer because they enjoy the company... especially in these times where people are in lockdown)

I know I am one of the people who used to go to Brick n Mortar casinos.. just to make conversations with strangers and even to make some friends. We even made arrangements to meet every Friday and Saturday to gamble together... even if we were not friends outside of the casino scene. Tongue