Re: Monday opening bid for PRTY.L : 40?.
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Then there's the small matter of the massive lawsuits by all the skins.
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If Party knew they were opening themselves up to massive lawsuits by all the skins, do you really think they would have done this?
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Absolutely. This is a part of their corporate strategy, and I have to say its brilliant. I would think its safe to assume that each skin's contract is to be on the "IGM Network Shared Platform". I doubt there is anything within the contracts that state that Party must remain on the shared platform as well. This will signal handedly force one for the following to occur:
1) Skins to be forced to submit to a takeover (ala Poker Now)
2) Skins to sell user base to Party
3) Skins to leave the Party network altogether, while watching their user base jump ship to join Party
This really is a win-win for Party, they just lowered the cost of acquisition greatly for themselves. Of course temporarily their user base will become smaller, but they made significantly less off the skins than they did from their primary user base anyway.
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