Originally Posted by
mudpuppy
Looks like they also lowered the tier requirements significantly. When I got Platinum earlier this year the requirement was 80k... now it is 50k.
They also made it faster to earn points on VP. It used to be 1 pt per $7.50; now it's 1pt per $6.
So, while it took me $600k coin-in to get platinum, you can now do it in $300k.
Also, assuming that a pt can still be exchanged for 1c freeplay (I actually don't see that anywhere on the page) that raises the freeplay from 0.133% to 0.167%.