"There is no such thing as a free lunch"
As non member players we should be grateful of what we can access and play for nothing and expect restrictions placed upon us to encourage us to pay to maintain this site. Get over it.
Members should feel they are getting excellent value and if that means removing ELO stats from us non members, restricting the settings we can play with to set up a table such as choice of game, level of opponent, whereabouts of opponent so be it...live with what you are given or pay.
Site owners perhaps could be more transparent and up front. State they need funds to maintain the site, develop more games etc, drop the philosophy of we want this as a free service with no ads. At the same time tell us basic account holders what options they will possibly remove from us in the future and how they ideally need us as paying members to make a good site an exceptional site.
You don't have to like the changes but surely you can see that you are getting entertainment for nothing and somebody is working to provide you that entertainment and for this I am thankful.
PS What is it with the laminate wôoden floor background to this site - if members could change the design and colours then I’d be up for subscribing...
As non member players we should be grateful of what we can access and play for nothing and expect restrictions placed upon us to encourage us to pay to maintain this site. Get over it.
Members should feel they are getting excellent value and if that means removing ELO stats from us non members, restricting the settings we can play with to set up a table such as choice of game, level of opponent, whereabouts of opponent so be it...live with what you are given or pay.
Site owners perhaps could be more transparent and up front. State they need funds to maintain the site, develop more games etc, drop the philosophy of we want this as a free service with no ads. At the same time tell us basic account holders what options they will possibly remove from us in the future and how they ideally need us as paying members to make a good site an exceptional site.
You don't have to like the changes but surely you can see that you are getting entertainment for nothing and somebody is working to provide you that entertainment and for this I am thankful.
PS What is it with the laminate wôoden floor background to this site - if members could change the design and colours then I’d be up for subscribing...