True, acesup.
Additionally, you will be forced to do rake backs yourself in order to continue to compete. Players will get wise to rakebacks and use them the way bonus abusers use bonuses now. Casinos without bonuses do not get players these days.
Affiliates will be forced to take paycut after paycut to stay competative.
Right now most programs do not allow rake backs. The one program that openly pushes them is sun poker, and I have yet to hear from a non rakeback affiliate who makes money with them. Sun is for rakeback affiliates only, if you don’t want to take a cut in your pay there is no point in advertising them. The rakeback affiliates get the signups.
Absolute isn’t down that far the rakeback road yet – but it will happen if we do not stop it now.
Absolute is a class outfit though, and I am quite sure we will find a way to deal with this.