I read something today in another thread which I found interesting.

It is October 12.

Alan, who earned 1,000,000+ tiers last year, and is definitely no comp whore, has decided to shut it down with his VP play until January 1st.

This is because of the law of diminishing returns with the Seven Stars program, something I've discussed before here.

They are simply under-rewarding players who continue past 150k tiers, and players like Alan are taking notice and rebelling with their wallet. I bet that there are many like Alan who decided that they will simply wait until January 1st to start playing again, knowing that the benefits of continuing at the end of the year are just not enough to justify the expected losses.

A casino should never operate this way. It should have players excited to come and play and earn more perks, not waiting until arbitrary dates when it's "worth it".

They attempted to fix this by introducing the new "points" system for Signature Experiences, but they bungled that effort badly.

We will see if they change this for 2015.