Fruit Machine Chat

This company offer to convert inde's , Paragon , and Opens to a seven game AWP thats an 80's throwback crock of shite.
Its like trying to replace Call Of Duty with Space Invaders.
The company states there is a hundred years of expertise between the employees , not a lot if they have hundreds of employees.
Is replacing the SWP'S some in locations but what sort of licensee thinks theres money in this?


http://www.entnet.co.uk/index.html

Well I don't think quizzers are making them much these days. I think they are now just being kept as an attraction for the customers.

And I like what they laughingly call 'straight' roulette with a pay out of 78% LOL

This looks pretty snazzy. Better than the bookies roulette which pays out at 64% to keep the illuminati in new shoes. I think there should be hi stakes word soup on there though. £100 ultra play option, £2k jackpot for a clearance. Bit of a kick in the teeth if you like matching the correct answer to the displayed question though.

JG wrote: I think there should be hi stakes word soup on there though. £100 ultra play option, £2k jackpot for a clearance.
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lol - I think there would be players paying to have machines abducted, converted and returned, out of their own pockets, if that were the case!

You have to chuckle: "No complicated features here, just a single winline" - it's the "Hello World" of fruit machine games...

Seeing as most of these machines clam up the second you win over a tenner there's no way this will work.

To reply to what quizzard said earlier about some pubs just having them as an attraction for the customers,I suspect that's right in a number of cases.Certainly in a friend's local,that's what the manager said to me.What made him get rid of the quizzy was the various things that kept going wrong with it:not accepting money,swallowing money,screen not working etc.Of course these things are also a problem if as a landlord,you're hoping for a small profit every week.I was in a pub the other Saturday night for a drink,and over an hour and a half,four different groups of people wanted to play the quizzy but it was doing that thing where it won't take any coins.If it had been working properly,there might have been a tenner or more in the machine when the collector arrived.I still think that if the machines worked properly,didn't do any of the daft stuff like offering prizes such as £0.90 etc (you can't collect any of the prize you've won in that case - is that even legal?) there might be an industry that can still continue.Persist with duff machines and duff prizes,then maybe then the game is up.

Sadly I think it's just a vicious circle now of neglect and poor maintenance. I now *expect* to encounter mechanical or similar problems in virtually every location - even with a machine where the coin mechanism, screen and all games are working correctly, I would still expect to encounter a failure to pay out all the money that I legitimately win - even ignoring the deliberate Sceptre policy of fiddling with the payout levels, the maximum amount available for payouts is commonly around £30 to £40 and after anything over about £20 of winnings I am ready for the next amount collected to cause a payout failure. I usually try to reboot the machine and get rid of any remaining credits in such cases, so that there's at least a chance of punters starting to play it again that day, but the general picture of too few people caring for their machines adequately is all too evident.

Roulette at 78% lol