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SirPeale:


--- Quote from: GodSend25 on December 24, 2004, 09:47:57 am ---How about the ability to view prices right on the product listing without clicking on each item.  I find that quite annoying.

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Heh...quite right.  How hard would it be to make a script that parses the database for the current price?

NiteWalker:


--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 23, 2004, 08:47:58 pm ---
--- Quote ---What I was trying to get across is that if games were like the way they were way back when arcade games couldn't be reproduced faithfully on consoles then maybe there may be some renewed interest in arcade
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but its the operator who has to eat the cost of the hardware. so in trying to provide something thats superior to home hardware ,that op essentially now has to spend more than he can make in what by design is a .25-1.50$ per cycle redemption scheme.
Add to that, the fact that attentions spans are short on games, so its a volatile investment..unless the game becomes a classic or cult the likelyhood of prolonged returns to offset capital spent is not good.

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That's why I mentioned something like marvel vs capcom 3 or street fighter 4. something to bring back the flame. Actually to think about it the whole system needs restructuring. Maybe the hardware should be the responsibility of the developers and not the ops. This way ops can rent these games and just pay a liscensing fee maybe. Just a theory but I think it'd be more effective than making an op pay $5000 for a game(madden...) and then have to have it for 3+years just to pay for itself. They could have the game, pay a fee to the developers, and start making profits right away instead of waiting.



paigeoliver:

The developers don't want to lose the money any more than the operators do.

The fact is this. A Madden arcade game IS a viable idea yes, but not as a $5000 33" 4-player monster.

But, it is too late now. A new fighting game isn't going to revive the arcades, nothing will. Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 could come out tommorrow. they could give the upgrade kits away FREE and the game could never have a home version and it still wouldn't even make a tiny DENT in stopping the total death of arcades.



--- Quote from: NiteWalker on December 24, 2004, 10:59:43 am ---
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 23, 2004, 08:47:58 pm ---
--- Quote ---What I was trying to get across is that if games were like the way they were way back when arcade games couldn't be reproduced faithfully on consoles then maybe there may be some renewed interest in arcade
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but its the operator who has to eat the cost of the hardware. so in trying to provide something thats superior to home hardware ,that op essentially now has to spend more than he can make in what by design is a .25-1.50$ per cycle redemption scheme.
Add to that, the fact that attentions spans are short on games, so its a volatile investment..unless the game becomes a classic or cult the likelyhood of prolonged returns to offset capital spent is not good.

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That's why I mentioned something like marvel vs capcom 3 or street fighter 4. something to bring back the flame. Actually to think about it the whole system needs restructuring. Maybe the hardware should be the responsibility of the developers and not the ops. This way ops can rent these games and just pay a liscensing fee maybe. Just a theory but I think it'd be more effective than making an op pay $5000 for a game(madden...) and then have to have it for 3+years just to pay for itself. They could have the game, pay a fee to the developers, and start making profits right away instead of waiting.



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romperwomb:


--- Quote ---Japan, as mentioned already, is a whole different social dynamic. In that society, people go out all the time and the population is so condensed.
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I agree, but maybe if Boong-Ga Boong-Ga were brought over, it might start a revival!



I recently had a "Cyber Arena" start up in my town, basically just some high end PC's for LAN party games and several consoles hooked up to big plasma's.  They charge hourly rates for you to come game.  They do tout themselves as the "Arcade of the future".  We plan to start a League at work, way cooler then a bowling league IMHO. 

Will it go out of business in 6 months?  Probably...  :-\


paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: romperwomb on December 24, 2004, 12:28:11 pm ---
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Will it go out of business in 6 months?  Probably...  :-\


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I have seen lots of these places open and close in the past 7 years.

These days if you want to run an arcade then open a bar and put in a nice game selection and pretend it is an arcade. The games might not make any money, but they MIGHT be drawing bar business that you wouldn't otherwise get. I know my friends and I tend to go to "The Pink Galleon" just because they have a few games. We might only play $2 in games, but we will spend plenty on beer. If the owner was looking at it from the games perspective then it looks like his games aren't making much, but we would go someplace else if they weren't there,

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