Fruit Machine Chat

I can understand the lack of investment in maintenance (and probably the inability to maintain given the age of the units and lack of parts) but I can't understand why neither the machine operators nor the host pubs seem to be checking the machine is even working. The worst one I've seen recently wa...

From what rbby258 said at the start of the thread it sounds like the software has expired and just needs updating to increase the selection -though it is depressing that the machine operators haven't had the date in their diary and been onto this beforehand.

I've noticed these machines are now widely being updated with a new red v2.x menu along with (I think) the v33 games release see on the Eggs. I think this may have finally fixed the issue (which v1.4 didn't) as I saw one running something similar months back and it had correctly detected something w...

I think it's primarily the entertainment/satisfaction from playing the game as the prizes for average players are so small and usually end up back in the machine anyway. I could be wrong though. I think it's a big missed opportunity for the companies that make the games that they don't prompt every ...

I wonder if the increase in the price of drinks has been a factor, in that the closer a drink is to a fiver the less change someone has to put in a machine. Perhaps there'll be a renaissance when it edges over that and every pint comes with a handful of coins. Or use of contactless payment will incr...

Most people who play will make a loss so the cash shouldn't be the main reason they play? Unless I suppose it's down to a psychological thing that they feel good about the 3 quid they've won and forget the 10 quid they spent along the way. Pub Quizzes do still seem to be popular (comments about chea...

I think paradoxically you might get more people to play (present company excepted) if it wasn't possible to win anything on a game. If you think back to Space Invaders etc. one of the things that kept people playing was trying to do better than their last game and to be on top of the high score tabl...

Next time you're passing could you see what version of the menu software it's running (bottom right hand corner of the menu screen). I'm expecting it to be v1.3A - if it's v1.4 (released a few months ago) then that's more interesting as I'd assumed the update was to fix this issue.