Sooo why the sudden decreased payout of Vegas Nights

[xsmootx]

Checked my inbox of daily games that I won and I noticed that I got 175 for placing 2nd. The spots were originally 1st - 500, 2nd - 450, 3rd - 425, 4th - 400, etc. Now it's much less. 1st - 200, 2nd - 175, 3rd - 150 etc.

Why the sudden change, seems really unfair.

[rachelrunt]

It was just updated to have an extended leaderboard.

In extended leaderboards, the top prize is smaller.

There are now 300 top winners in Vegas Nights.



I agree with you though, all leaderboards should have a top prize of 500, then decrease down the list based on how many positions there are on that particular leaderboard.

[xsmootx]

That is really dumb. I would much rather prefer it the way it was before or have the payouts not stretched so thin.

[TheNewNeko]

You know in a way, I'm all for it. There were a bunch of bots that would take the top slots and grab thousands of oodles a day. This kinda dissuades them from being able to do that any more.

[squishmar]

You know in a way, I'm all for it. There were a bunch of bots that would take the top slots and grab thousands of oodles a day. This kinda dissuades them from being able to do that any more.

It also dissuades legitimately good players from getting any kind of substantial reward for being good at a game.

I know people believe that there are a lot of cheaters and bots on this site... I'm not one of them. I'm not saying there aren't any... but people just don't want to accept that it takes a lot of TIME and PATIENCE and SKILL to reach the top of the boards. This, to me, is the equivalent of giving everybody a trophy just for participating. In other words, it rewards mediocrity.

I don't mind the idea of extended leaderboards to get less-skilled players more excited about playing a game, but don't punish the top players by making the reward less for excelling at the game.

[TheNewNeko]

It also dissuades legitimately good players from getting any kind of substantial reward for being good at a game.

I know people believe that there are a lot of cheaters and bots on this site... I'm not one of them. I'm not saying there aren't any... but people just don't want to accept that it takes a lot of TIME and PATIENCE and SKILL to reach the top of the boards. This, to me, is the equivalent of giving everybody a trophy just for participating. In other words, it rewards mediocrity.

I don't mind the idea of extended leaderboards to get less-skilled players more excited about playing a game, but don't punish the top players by making the reward less for excelling at the game.

But there are games (like Diner Dash) where exploits can be used that give people 500 oodles just by being able to use a glitch. These people use this glitch, get the maximum possible score of 30,000 points and then boom, they're 500 oodles richer. (by the way, scoring 30,000 points without using said glitch is impossible)

Another game that had nearly impossible scores to attain was Alu's Revenge. People there would score over a million on that game. Now it isn't that big of a problem but when they were giving out gift cards and TV's, it was a massive problem.

[xsmootx]

What do you mean bots? Considering me, DejaVuvuzela, and atlantak are on there consistently on a daily basis and I can't speak for Deja and Atlantak but I'm damn sure I didn't use a bot. Deja has posted YouTube videos of him playing, not using bots. So your claim is pretty much null.

Secondly, lowering the payouts wasn't going to stop people from (at least not until the stupid token stunt GSN decided to pull today.) as I would probably still play it because A) it's a fun game and B) I'm good at it.

I don't mind the idea of extended leaderboards to get less-skilled players more excited about playing a game, but don't punish the top players by making the reward less for excelling at the game.

THIS!

[monteine]

what are bots? i dont even know what bots are. i consistenly score very high with zen gems but today its all different. i cant get below 90 on the leaderboard. everything is different. should i worry about bots? ok i dont know i think its for the best i need to get back to life instead of hanging around here all dam day