[William]

They were exactly the same before the US situation.

Well, the problem is with the USA players right? and it may be risky to advertise to attract them. So maybe they just chose to receive whatever % of Party nits moves to Stars and leave it at that. It's not like they are struggling to survive, and they may chose to hold a low profile (yes, also outside of the USA because even if the USA is the first to do something against online gambling, the threat is in the air everywhere) until things settle down. They make tons of money already, so what do they care if all the tags are crying for extra fishies, they keep playing and paying rake all the same, don't they?



They spend [censored] all advertising in Europe and elsewhere

Stars do advertise in Europe. And Party having lost 90% of its customers, don't you find it normal that they are more agressive than other sites in new markets?



They have a [censored] affiliate program, which means no one goes out of their way to promote PokerStars over say, Full Tilt. It also means that few non gambling websites have an incentive to promote PokerStars aggressively.

It seems to me that they are doing just fine the way they operate. From their point of view of course, which believe it or not is not the same as the players point of view, especially the nits.
Just my opinion of course, you could try asking them, but I doubt you will get an honest answer.

People in this forum only think about what they want (it's ok as well, if you don't ask you don't get) but perhaps it would be a good idea to try to figure out what the site best interest is (yes, Lee will allways post that they want to please the customer and all that BS, but that is only lower in the priority list, first of all it's their pockets they think of). You may not like what you find out, but refusing to admit it won't solve the problem.

Also statements like "they are costing themselves money by doing or not doing this or that are total BS, they know perfectly well how to maximize their profits, and by saying such things people just show how shortsighted they are.