itBox v68

[mr lugsy]

'ye shall reap what ye sow'

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[cool]

cool wrote:
Ive been told by a publican that Gamestec have given up the ghost with gamesnets once they took over leisure link.Apparently they have been laying off a lot of people.
'Not true mate'.

I thought that would explain their shocking lake of imagination and content on their machines at the moment and their service (at least in the below location) is crap.

Take for example the Varsity in Southampton city centre.The Gamesnet adjacent to the lower bar had been switched off for more than a month(Dec-Jan).It was eventually 'fixed' and then brokedown within a day.

lets get a comment from someone hiding in the gamestec bunker.

[grecian]

Take for example the Varsity in Southampton city centre.The Gamesnet adjacent to the lower bar had been switched off for more than a month(Dec-Jan).It was eventually 'fixed' and then brokedown within a day.

lets get a comment from someone hiding in the gamestec bunker.

I've got a GamesNet in a pub very near my work which has been switched off, I presume broken, for about two or three months now. Seems bizarre that Gametec would just let broken machines go unfixed for months - is there some sort of dispute between Gamestec and these pubs?

[Nil Satis]

Ive been told by a publican that Gamestec have given up the ghost with gamesnets once they took over leisure link.Apparently they have been laying off a lot of people.

Not true mate.

It's not clear which bit you mean isn't true - if it's the second part (re laying people off) then presumably you might have inside information to know that isn't true, in which case fair comment, but if you mean the first part then that seems bang on the money to me, and for exactly the same reasons that others have stated - appalling games content and seemingly little or no regard for fixing broken Gamesnets. Even if the latter is outside Gamestec's direct control, they surely have an interest in helping machine owners and operators ensure that their machines work 99% of the time!

[kingzilla]

cool wrote:
Ive been told by a publican that Gamestec have given up the ghost with gamesnets once they took over leisure link.Apparently they have been laying off a lot of people.
'Not true mate'.

I thought that would explain their shocking lake of imagination and content on their machines at the moment and their service (at least in the below location) is crap.

Take for example the Varsity in Southampton city centre.The Gamesnet adjacent to the lower bar had been switched off for more than a month(Dec-Jan).It was eventually 'fixed' and then brokedown within a day.

lets get a comment from someone hiding in the gamestec bunker.

I would ask the manager why he has not rang one of the numbers that is on the machine, there is no point trying to ring them yourselves as they dont take punters calls

[grecian]

I would ask the manager why he has not rang one of the numbers that is on the machine, there is no point trying to ring them yourselves as they dont take punters calls

Trouble with that is that it flags you to the barman as someone who's got a vested interest in the machine working, when that's exactly the impression I'd rather not give to pubs near work. The weird thing is that on previous occasions when my local Gamesnet broke, it always got fixed properly (and sometimes reset ), so it's odd they've neglected to do so this time.

[Istenem]

like Grecian i also have one of these terminals which has been ostensibly broken for upwards of a month. the pub in question is small, it doesn't have any bandits and one of those absentee publicans who could clearly not give a tinker's cuss for his name being above the door.
it is the kind of pub which is ideally located to attract undiscerning tourists; so if they have a glass of poison while jabbering in spanish they think they have "done" the traditional English pub. but if this keeps them away from the few good pubs nearby, i'm happy to take one broken SWP on the chin.

[WaterGate]

Operation greed