Hello Zane and all,
I think you are not seeing the big picture at all.
This is NOT about who makes what money and how.
It is about integrity, about the validity of contracts, about the ability to trust a handshake. It is about decency.
It doesn’t matter how you change the payment rules around – if they are not what each of us signed for you are in breach of contract. You are injuring the integrity of the industry. You have broken people’s goodwill and trust.
I am not sure you guys are realizing how very serious this is – it’s not a handful of irate affs on message boards flaming you.
Your sucess and acceptance in this industry is very much at stake.
Affiliates are not helpless as you may think, we do rule the SERPS. We do have direct influence on players.
And loyalty – where is yours?
Please do the right thing and honor the contracts we closed with you in good faith. THEN we talk about deals.