This is what I was told…
They tried the ip block on Kentucky and it failed so they tried the block on the surrounding states and that failed SO they thought about the aol block and that would end up blocking thousands as you can imagine. So they can block the entire country easier maybe who knows but we can all hope it is only temporary.
The good side we can still gain rev off our players in there, we have to have faith that they will keep player retention for us going, we have to hope it is only temporary and finally we have to not spend time speculating and get as buns in gear to pick up a loss of income and compensate for it. I think player retention is going to improve for us greatly with this move.
I am grateful that it is only a block on new players coming in this gives me time to build up the other markets.
It is a sad situation we will see casinos close and we will see affiliate managers lose jobs and last we will see some of our webmaster friends fold up their business.
If there are players that have been untagged from affiliates I might suggest they get tagged back so the affiliates can see some income and have hope and with that hope they will work harder for you and with you on getting other players from the other markets.
Last I don’t want to blame programs and I know some of them fought tooth and nail and this is the last thing they wanted to do, they have to follow the software providers orders guys. BUT while that is the case any of you that currently take players from the US and decide to cut them off totally when you have the choice to continue to let them play, I hope you change your mind. I don’t believe for a min that the USA players have become a burden and not profitable anymore.