@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.