This is very unfortunate. One of my best-performing groups — gone, just like that. Goddamn it.
I hope Microgaming will step in and pay all players and affiliates affected by this.
I also hope that some other group (that accepts US players) will integrate these casinos into their program and map the players over properly, like Rewards did when they took in the Integrity Group’s casinos after the previous owners ran that company into the ground.
I do believe the casinos can — and should — be saved. There is no reason why the casinos shouldn’t be able to live on — they are well-known brands with outstanding reputations — until recently, obviously.
This all happened because the casinos changed ownership, and the new owners (apparently) didn’t know what the f*** they were doing.
Rick / Inspiration — CPS was a large affiliate program. That is why the situation is so shocking. They weren’t the “biggest” program out there, but they were fairly large.