Rakeback is not generating new players.
Without non rakeback affiliates the industry is dead.
All during the discussion the rooms sat in the back trying to be invisible.
Micro forbids rakeback affs to publicly advertise that prima allows rakeback.
Yet Prima even has a built in feature allowing RB affs to calculate the rake.
Now some 15% of players get rakeback. I am told by rooms that once it reaches 50% they are dead.
Rakeback players get higher comissions in order to pay 35% of the rake to the players. Some pay 50% and still make a few % profit.
Rakeback afiliates are given all the advantages and being treated special. They get a huge profit share to be able to give huge rakeback.
Rooms are terrified of us claiming top google space for lots of poker keywords with RAKEBACK added in.
Even a room that has been trying to tell me for a year in dozens of mails that rakeback can and will coexist and offered me all kinds of things if only I adapted that stance – they came crawling and telling me I was right and they were wrong.
Rooms use rakeback to steal whales from one another, that is its only purpose.
They want it hush hush.
The software provders will put an end to it asap if the hush hush went out of it.