Bellfruit and Gamestec - SOLD

anfield road · Post by **anfield road** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:11 am

I will just travel round arcades all year

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:56 am

I will just resort to tooling

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:36 pm

I thought a degree of player manipulation and "secret"methods were deliberatly included by the manus to make the games more interesting and as part of the psychology to make players in the know think they have an edge over the uninformed punter. And progressive and compensated payouts supposedly make the games more profitable. So why would They want to change that even if it was all digital?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:07 pm

If you ran/owned a pub, who would you want playing the machines.

Current scenario

Player A comes in, once a week buys a drink, wins £100 out of the machine and disappears leaving the machine dead for the "regulars".
Player B, casual. Has £50 to spend comes in once a week. Buys three beers for a tenner and does the rest in the machine player A has just rinsed.

£10 in the till.

Future scenario.
No player A as now machines "random".
Player B buys three pints, plays the machine with the other £40 and every other week wins £70. Now once a fortnight can afford an extra night out and another three pints, so another £10 in the till.

Other advantages, fewer refills, no reel alarms, remote diagnostics and updates/patches/rechips. No humping machines arounds resulting in savings in fleet, engineer and fuel costs. No brainer really.

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:47 pm

Real time monitoring and a clear understanding of issues will certainly see the end of the emptier, it's just a case of how much of the other stuff stays in

BFK · Post by **BFK** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:16 pm

All that never stopped juiced from taking a pounding. Fuckwit-tec digitals have never lasted any amount of time in any venues I've known them sited.

If Astra are to site similar, they'll probably lose a bundle. One things for sure tho, they'll have to tighten up their programming!!

spa · Post by **spa** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:59 pm

anfield road wrote:I will just travel round arcades all year

Good point actually. What will happen to Arcades? Can't see them having lines of multi video fruits.... With nobody making reel based fruits......

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:19 pm

there will always be reels it's as simple as that.

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:39 pm

They were all video ransoms in Canada. Five in a row in pubs. It was funny watching people thinking they had a “system". Then doing there tits

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:39 pm

Randoms

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:47 pm

ransoms is funnier betch

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:00 pm

Same thing In a way

eastangliapro · Post by **eastangliapro** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:23 pm

hunstanton poer has got rid of alot of machines

spa · Post by **spa** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:11 pm

Yeah, all ticket crap now.

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:13 pm

Hope the whole place burns to the ground, all backwards with nothing else better to do that bar you for making abit of honest doe.