The Pro Players' Longevity

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How long till the last “legitimate” pro player retires due to game standard/variety?

6 Months
2
6%
1 Year
4
13%
18 Months
8
26%
2 Years
4
13%
3 Years
6
19%
Never, it’s a gravy train to infinity!
7
23%
 
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The Pro Players' Longevity

Post by milk monitor »

With things on the slide, what are you thoughts?
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Post by pickareel »

i give it 2 year minimum
i got more routes than loreal
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Post by rickroll »

there will always be money to make, all that will happen is that people will have to get smarter.

less rats about in next few years tho.
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Post by pickareel »

indeed theres always stuff 2 play
i got more routes than loreal
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Post by Mattb »

Yeah, just more mileage needed. Found a FNC and Invincible in villages tonight and both were flying, made £95 between them. Cities are generally pretty dry now though. Outskirts are the way, older stuff more prominent.
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Post by JG »

Good one Matt, but how long until the Landlord/lady has a friendly word in your ear?
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Post by Drpepper »

If you mean standard AWP's then a couple of years.

Whatever replaces AWP's, there will always something you can do to make money.
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Post by JG »

Oh dear, will this become Buytoletpropertylandlordchat.co.uk?

Will we have to redesign the logo to reflect a broken guttering or some Polish tenants?

Or JeffVickersbuyingandsellingstuffonEbaynotdeclaringittoInlandRevenueallinthenameofmakingafewbobchat.co.uk?
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Post by wildcat »

got to admit , but if cat3s go from pubs within the next year/2 years i can see all backstreet / quieter est's closing down!! all well have is bars in the town centres!! which makes it harder for pro's (bring back lower jp's in pubs then at least the "average player" has got a chance .....to lose theyre cash for us.... players!!!! ( im not a player , not yet eh!!)
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Post by harry2 »

It wasn't that long ago that pubs had video games and pinball machinnes in either.Surely it cant be long until the next generation of fruit machines are around, basically video slots where new games are downloaded remotely. Why keep paying for distributors to swap machines around every fortnight. Costs too much. Faults can be diagnosed and fixed by some nice chap from India who gets paid £100 a month. IGT already owns most of the industry.
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Post by jeffvickers »

Talking of playing machines "smarter" in cliquey locals, I try to play the Grub A Dub Dubs/Crazy Cash Points I have tucked away on "Disco" Night.

Or its "Bat Out of Hell" on the Jukebox. 15 minutes for 50p!!!
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Post by jeffvickers »

harry2 wrote:It wasn't that long ago that pubs had video games and pinball machinnes in either.Surely it cant be long until the next generation of fruit machines are around, basically video slots where new games are downloaded remotely. Why keep paying for distributors to swap machines around every fortnight. Costs too much. Faults can be diagnosed and fixed by some nice chap from India who gets paid £100 a month. IGT already owns most of the industry.
Im surprised the "Video AWP" people have not contacted someone like "Pook" from DXCELLENT to come up with some lovely layouts for their content. I played a DOND Walk of Wealth on Video in a pub somewhere, and the graphics and screen flicker/freeze were absolutely appalling. I also believe that Manufacturers Back Catologue of games MUST be used, as well as new ideas. Those silly roulette/Poker games are not the way forward.
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Post by alcozar »

Pro players will be around as long as there are dodgy programmers giving them the edge.

Once that stops, it's over.
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Post by trayhop123 »

exactly alc ,,,,,, dodgy programmers give it there mates, take the cream off the top for as long as they can before the ladder reaches us.

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