They could have settled with affiliates for the percentage of the player owned by the affiliate. As in if you make 30% of the profits the player brings, 30% of the sales price of that player is yours.
Of course Tradal won’t cough that up now – BECAUSE AFFILIATES WERE NOT CONSIDERED IN THE DEAL!
It was also a hostile deal and the more we push the more these two parties will point at each other and refuse to deal with us, each blaming the other.
In this case we look to be pretty fucked – and what is this with the two closed casinos? Same thing, and Party owned them all along!!! Tradal never owned those at all.
How did Rewards do it? They migrated all the Integrity players and mapped them to the appropriate affiliates.
I bet Wager Junction will do the same thing. Some of the mergers planned now are planning to also map players – but if it isn’t necessary because affiliates sit still when they are left out of the equation, why would they do that? Much more profitable to just make them house players.
I bet Party and Tradal never even mentioned the word “affiliate” in the entire transaction.
I predict that we will have lost most of our player bases a year from now if we don’t find some way to make a stand.
We will see a repeat of the T&C mess, one gets away without mapping players over and all will do it.