WorldWinner lesson learned

[Quatrix]

When you start playing a new game at WorldWinner, dumb yourself down and don't show your true skill. For example, even if you've played hundreds of hours of Bejeweled offline and on other sites, play as if you're completely new to it. New, highly skilled players are unprofitable to WorldWinner and will be accused of cheating by older "premium" players who get their butts handed to them, even if it takes you 20 attempts to get a top score. You need to pay thousands of dollars in entry fees over many months before it's acceptable to win much.

[msufan]

there's a lot of truth to that, yes...

[Skialot]

When you start playing a new game at WorldWinner, dumb yourself down and don't show your true skill. For example, even if you've played hundreds of hours of Bejeweled offline and on other sites, play as if you're completely new to it. New, highly skilled players are unprofitable to WorldWinner and will be accused of cheating by older "premium" players who get their butts handed to them, even if it takes you 20 attempts to get a top score. You need to pay thousands of dollars in entry fees over many months before it's acceptable to win much.

It probably doesn't help your credibility with WW much that there are two users, named Quatrix and Quatrix2, both hailing from the same state, and both breaking 1000 in SC. Might make it look to WW like the second login, which was set up fairly recently, was just to put you back to lower divisions.

Just sayin'.

[msufan]

It probably doesn't help your credibility with WW much that there are two users, named Quatrix and Quatrix2, both hailing from the same state, and both breaking 1000 in SC. Might make it look to WW like the second login, which was set up fairly recently, was just to put you back to lower divisions.

Just sayin'.

[Quatrix]

It probably doesn't help your credibility with WW much that there are two users, named Quatrix and Quatrix2, both hailing from the same state, and both breaking 1000 in SC. Might make it look to WW like the second login, which was set up fairly recently, was just to put you back to lower divisions.

Yes, they're both me, but it's not that simple. One account was amicably closed when we moved from California to Florida, where WorldWinner games were not allowed, not for any TOS violation. Some of the games are now legal in Florida, but there were some issues getting the account reactivated when I contacted them. WorldWinner has been aware of everything.

Ironically, earlier they closed my WIFE'S account as an alleged duplicate because she plays on the same PC and they apparently thought it was me. Their policy is one account per person and two accounts per computer/address, so we weren't doing anything wrong. Even after admitting their mistake, they wouldn't reopen her account or give back her whopping $15 balance.

All that said, I don't really blame WorldWinner. They're running a business, where profits are supposed to be the bottom line, and a skilled player who has some early success is unprofitable. The "premium" players who win all the time spent a lot of money getting there. And their "we can close any account for any reason at any time" clause conveniently lets them do whatever they want. This is just a warning to potential new players, especially those who are already very good at Bejeweled or other popular games.

[Skialot]

All that said, I don't really blame WorldWinner. They're running a business, where profits are supposed to be the bottom line, and a skilled player who has some early success is unprofitable. The "premium" players who win all the time spent a lot of money getting there.

Gotta disagree with you there. That wasn't my experience at all, and I know quite a few players who were good right off the bat, and only made one deposit then played off the winnings, and have had no issues.