Hi all,
as most know I am a supporter of RA and agree 100% that Ryan and Renee and in fact nearly everyone I’ve ever worked with at CR has been great at being there and accessible which is a lot more than I can say for many programs.
that said; I think the situation of wager vs other … will eventually take care of itself … especially if wager turns out to be such a discouraging result to what I’m certain was a move towards keeping affiliates happy because they are after all … an affiliate program. Those don’t do too well without affiliates. 
So far what I’ve read is that a lot of people are having a bad month (I may be too, I haven’t checked yet) but I think what some are missing is the fact that it IS the time of the summer slowdown. That means people are gambling less. That statement in itself should go a long ways in explaining bad results for a wager model.
I think what some are missing is that for all you know … (and I’m using the 8 players as an example) ….. but for all any of us know … 5 or 6 of those 8 may come back and gamble their little asses off come Sept or Nov when they can’t get out of the house as much. A risk most of us chose to take over getting paid up front.
and I think you’d be facing the challenge of such a risk under any model except cpa at this point in time.
I think Ryan has done a pretty good job at showing how there really wasn’t much difference in earnings had the old style model been in place to at least a portion of the complainers here and I doubt he went and did the math on everyone’s situation so it is likely more than just those selected out … would fall into the same category.
Just food for thought.
In any case as I mentioned, I think the situation will take care of itself. if wagershare proves to “put-off” a lot of potential new affiliates then it would be rather foolish of RA to not consider switching back to the old model or perhaps since they’ve now done the work to establish the wager share model, … they will choose to offer multiple choices including the old and the new.
I’m sure why they didn’t do this in the first place was it was decided the new wager share model would prove to be everything they’ve claimed and nobody would be looking back (for the most part). But like with so many other things I have experienced or seen happen on the net …. what looks bullet-proof on paper just doesn’t always carry over into real life.