I feel sick to my guts over this entire mess. What upsets me the most is that Lloyd has been set upon by people who don’t know sh#t from clay. Yet in true Lloyd style he has remained a gentleman throughout.
He’s also going to suffer indirectly from this too. Which given the type of AM Lloyd is and his personal character that embodies everything I think we all admire and respect about Lloyd, makes me think that the industry as a whole is going down the sh#t tubes at a fast rate of knots.
In direct regards to the JF fiasco I’ve been sitting on the fence before pulling their properties, waiting for eCogra’s statement of findings. However as each day progresses more damaging evidence comes to light.
When JF’s black hat SEO came to light I contacted Simon the general manager of JF. Although I’m not at liberty (confidentiality) to say what each email contained, I still feel there is more to this matter than just simply removing pages from a server.
This incident maybe a direct wake up call for the entire gaming industry, in so far as it’s time to change tactics.
IMO the majority of online gaming venues still subscribe to non-transparent practices. Having to wade through Company labyrinths in this day and age to simply find an actual bricks and mortar address is a common practice associated to this industry. Which imo is simply not good enough.
Once we introduce JF’s direct and indirect company connections this pushes this entire mess into another dimension.
Spiral has been the right hand marketing firm for these casino’s as long as I can remember. Therefore I feel that Spiral has a lot more to answer to than maybe it or JF or eCogra is letting on.
On a general overview Companies such as JF may have a massed a large number of casino/poker room properties. However, it seems that the greater the number of casino/poker rooms a Company hold in their portfolio the greater the risk of getting things wrong greatly increases.
Bozo’s (?) (the person responsible for this black hat SEO) post at CM’s was arrogant and is only exceed by his sheer stupidity. But, imo his analogy of the current industry’s climate is right on the mark.
I could not locate his post, but it went something like this:
Imagine a guppy fish swimming in the shallows of a blood red sea, whilst watching sharks ripping at each other in deeper water.
That imo sums this industry up to a T.