I cant help but wonder who thought "you know all that is missing from this site is the ability to fling poo at the table".
Yeah this is known as gamification and is directly targeted at the "fun recreational" player that only plays for a couple hours on the weekends. Obviously ACR has done some statistical analysis on the dumb ass throwables on
poker stars and seen that it is a feature these losing recreational players like. So we loose chat which I enjoyed - and get these silly throwables - which I find annoying.
So the fix for the broken chat function was to remove it? Well, at least it's not broken anymore I guess. Kind of a letdown, I met some cool people in chat between the nasty hateful losers.
Chat was only offline for me for about 2 months. The latest two updates before this silly throwable update really did improve the chat functionality.
Honestly though - If we must put up with these re-donkulous throwables - at least give us a FISH, some kind of brainless representation, and a Big ol JACK ASS, so we can communicate unambiguously.
So they take the chat away and that's fine but I don't like the silly throwable animations when I'm playing. And it seems that players are not capped at how many times these bored children can use the same silly animation at the table which is really annoying.
I have the avatars off and I like a bare bones screen. They brought back those annoying tourn stats in the upper right corner that are behind the actual tourn lobby page so its nearly worthless and takes up screen space and I'm having trouble even turning that off now. Fading it doesn't make it go away, lol.
I mean this ACR update is a disaster.
This won't be a "you'll get used to" update but more like a "I think its time to stop playing" at ACR if ACR doesn't give folks the option to turn that stuff off.
The one nice enhancement they have made to the upper right stat tabs is they now remember our preferred stats to display, which is nice.
I already know the prize pool amount - I noticed it when I bought into the event from the main lobby. LOL most useless stat to place on the stat tab. Oh yeah - the prize pool is also on the table window header. LOL just silly.
So the most useful stats to have on the table are average stack size, Late Reg left, places to ITM and number of positions paid. Thats what I have showing on my stats. But I do agree with you on the bare bones table layout. I have all the avatars turned off as well, and really miss chat. LONG LIVE ACR CHAT where FUN is properly spelled PHUN.