The major workload of a project such as executing a software “upgrade”/switch with end users is the transferring/migration of user data/accounts/possible applications and setting server permissions, etcetera. There are indeed tools/software and/or operating systems to aid in those tasks… The task of migrating end users and their data can take hours maybe days given the scope of data and number of users.
With that typed, this Americas Cardroom software switch is an epic boondoggle…
When a program goes live, especially a program involving legal tender, the error/bugs should be at a miminum…… if not nonexistent, which is simply not always one-hundred percent likely however. And plausible testing, assimilations are key/important/essential to the projected outcome of deploying a live program.
The software itself is/was already written if I am not mistaken, by a third party gaming software developing company. I also noticed a change of software publisher upon initiating the installation of the new software application/package. The publisher of the former software is IGSoft whilst this new program/application is published by Lunar Software Inc.
I wonder if a contract involving IGSoft expired, ergo prompting the desire for a new software publisher/developer. And I mull if the new software designer or ACR for that matter failed to meet a potential deadline, gestating the possible rushing of a release date by ACR’s information technology department, eventually sparking an embryonic series of anomalies/oversights/bugs.
Ha! In addition, impatience/procrastination/violence do not mix well if not at all with information technology…
Nevertheless, there also could be some possible incompetence/negligence within ACR’s IT department and/or of the owner(s) itself/themselves of ACR.
Most of the above is hypothetical of course.
On a productive note… In my opinion, the noises emitted by the new software sound generic/simple, especially the default sound of placing a bet (although I have not searched for any possible substitute). I prefer the sound of betting from the former version, it was also the default sound for betting. That particular noise is/was ‘rich’ as it had the aural effect of mimicking the sound of actual chips sliding on physical table felt, at least in my opinion. It would be nice to have that as an option and/or as default.
I also find the one sizing of the poker table irritating along with the automatic, unauthorized resizing of a window when it is my turn to act. In the old version, after I expanded a table window the table itself would also enlarge. The table enlargement does not happen in the new version, at least not to my current knowledge.
Take it easy…
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