Why have Gamesnet machines got so bollocks?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:42 pm

[quote="BigEd"]My question is this]
Itboxes are probably hugely expensive compared to GamesNet.

cool · Post by **cool** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:10 pm

there are not . there are definitely more itboxes than gamesnets , at least in the area in which I operate.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:05 am

cool wrote:there are not . there are definitely more itboxes than gamesnets , at least in the area in which I operate.

Same in London Cool - in central London there are more Paragons and Fatboxes than GamesNets, I'd say.

q-time · Post by **q-time** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:41 am

I simply love the fact that Grecian is posting messages to Fruitchat at 7.05am. I wonder if he's one of those who fire up Internet Explorer before Outlook in the morning?

What is your earliest machining experience? At university a group of friends and I once went into the college bar at 5.30am for a game of Cluedo when the cleaners turned up. That was after an all night TV room session, of course.

QT

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:00 am

Itbox certainly more prominent where I am as far as my experience goes. Whilst I know a lot of Gamesnet locations, about 30% of these are the old style where the games take forerver to load, and most of them crash at some point.

I know more Paragons than Gamesnets as well so that might be an indication of how far they have sunk. Time was I couldn't move for 'em.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:04 pm

q-time wrote:I simply love the fact that Grecian is posting messages to Fruitchat at 7.05am. I wonder if he's one of those who fire up Internet Explorer before Outlook in the morning?

It was 8.05am actually as the times on here are out by an hour!

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:45 pm

So that's all right then!

8.05am is still the crack of dawn to most on here I suspect (myself included).

dm · Post by dm » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:46 pm

Nil Satis wrote:So that's all right then!

8.05am is still the crack of dawn to most on here I suspect (myself included).

i get up at 5 most days if that's OK

borgcontact4 · Post by **borgcontact4** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:11 pm

For your information I am industry bod and will happlily answer questions as l;ond as they dont compromise security for any industry companies.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:13 pm

happlily

as l;ond

So you write the questions for some of these games then?

Sorry, if you are an insider, I'm sure you'll receive a barrage of questions very shortly...

borgcontact4 · Post by **borgcontact4** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:19 pm

Well truth be told Matt , yes, I did write some long long time ago. Noe however in circulation today. They were good questions, very entertaining and educating, not like todays. This was when they were skill but of course this was covered by spoiler/blocker questions. The ones they use now [spoiler]are much better.

borgcontact4 · Post by **borgcontact4** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:32 pm

To amswer the forum question. Danoptra own Gamesnet /Gamestech and they in terrible financial trouble. They have sacked their CEO , Colin Daniels, forced early retirement offical line. Their accounts were not delivered to Company House and show a loss of £83 million. That with the previous two years loss shows a loss of over £200million. They have broken their bankers covenants and so could be put into recievership anytime. They are selling Bell Fruit which they paid all told over £40 million. Rumours are Aristocrat may buy them, published in Coinslot, weekly trade paper.
Industry rumour is to expect the company to go imnto adminstration/recivership in nextt few months. Leisure Connection the other half of Danoptra have a watch site!!!! take a look at it. google Leisure Connection or Danoptra and all is revealed. Not a place to put any investment money.
With all these money problems lots of unrest is it no wonder that the content on the terminals is so bad. Service is reputed to be suffering from lack of funds, moral is very poor. I am told by other industry members that nobady cares there now, crumbling.
So the answer is they have no money and that is leading other problems as one might expect.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:35 pm

I have to say that has the ring of truth Borg. Not at all surprised if those behind the LamesNet are struggling.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:32 pm

Cheers for the reply chaps.

Was in my local today, supping Heinks and a quick hour stolen on the Gamesnet....(it's all Gamesnets round ma way)

WU has gone. To be replaced by easy dictionary WU....Got my highest score ever (about 1900). It's now hilariously called Word Soup btw....

Bullseye and DOND were back, and both forthcoming with the moolah... maybe they'd been reset during their absence?

New games were.....

Monopoly New Guy ... what a difference! Only just realised how easy it is to get to the end game if it wants you to... got £2.50 tho the end game is having a laugh (£1 offered, ... £2.50, £4, £9 on the cards).

Trivial Pursuit... another incarnation... more like Pub Quiz than triv, but won £3 nonetheless. Nothing new however.

FHM ... there was a warning telling me it might be offensive, but I didn't realise it was going to be like this... in short, utter shite. Clunky graphics, appalling interface... the quicker you answer questions about local quirky events (a la News Quiz), the more you add to the cashpot. At some random interval, it offers you a bash at the cashpot... if you accept, you then have 3 picoseconds to match about 8 pairs. I got 2, and I only got one wrong.

Millionaire has also made an appearance at last - even though I'm not a fan.

So, to sum up, a lot better than last week. But WHEN are they going to remove Pub Quiz from the "New Games" ?

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:38 am

I was on a Gamesnet yesterday, and if the games on that machine become London-wide then it's certainly an improvement. There was a 50p/£1 Tetris, the same for DOND, new Monopoly (which was approximately 8.7 times easier than the Itbox incarnation, basically placing £5 into my hands), plus the TOTP game. News Quiz didn't seem too bad, though there was no sign of FHM or Bullseye. There was also a game involving throwing a monkey, which involved setting the angle of throw and then working out the correct time to throw him (he was being rotated in a hammer/discus stylee). A question was asked after every throw a la Caveman Capers. I don't think this is the same as the one Nil Satis was describing as a new Itbox game.

If I'd only read Richelieu's post I'd have made more on Word Soup (I thought I was restrained to the nonsensical, arbitrary original word list instead of the admittedly-still-nonsensical-in-a-very-different-way-but-on-balance-infinitely-preferable Scrabble word list), and Worditz played a bit like a cross between Stand and Deliver and Pints Win Prizes, with an added interest of being able to answer a general knowledge question instead of choosing a letter. There was also Grand Prix, which is basically an 80s computer game, a jigsaw game that I didn't bother playing, and several in the Triple Towers/Pairs/Memory game mode. All in all, something for everyone I'd say.