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This time next year
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:27 pm
by paragoon
it'll all be over. that's my sad prediction. I can still make a few bob in a fresh town/city but it's becoming apparent that the gig is up imo. Not enough pubs and certainly not enough pubs with machines. And not enough games on those machines...Anyone disagree?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:10 am
by HornyNick
The latest Paragon lineup is dire. Since when was tri towers a quiz game??????? having said that i got my first tenner out of million £ drop on this lineup.
Watching people try to work out what the fuck is happening on DOND Skill is always good for a laugh. The nightclub im a regular in doesnt have the normal DOND game on the lineup, but a pub down the road does, i was told it was updated about 2 weeks ago.
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 8:31 pm
by tonkarentino
I wouldn't like to put a timescale on the total demise but certainly the shortened two screen paragon version leaves a lot to be desired. Still money to be had at the moment but it's a bit of a slog.
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:01 pm
by quizard
People have been predicting the end since we started. Did anyone think in 1986 we would still be at it in 2013?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:31 pm
by BFK
Same in the AWP world.
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:11 am
by titchno1
BFK wrote:Same in the AWP world.
Sure is!
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:33 am
by BFK
I meant people predicting the end!!!
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:37 pm
by titchno1
BFK wrote:I meant people predicting the end!!!
I know mate, who knows what's around the corner.
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:39 pm
by maverick69
we'll be millionaires
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:00 pm
by BFK
Ur already a 3rd of the way there eh mav???
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:56 pm
by paragoon
quizard wrote:People have been predicting the end since we started. Did anyone think in 1986 we would still be at it in 2013?
Fair point. Maybe it's just the darkest hour before the dawn.
Maybe loads more pubs will open.
Maybe they'll all go mad for machines.
Maybe those machines will have more content.
Maybe itboxes will make a comeback.
Maybe they'll put the volume control back on.
Always look on the bright side of life.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:37 am
by maverick69
BFK wrote:Ur already a 3rd of the way there eh mav???
My pockets are looking like they are so hench
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:19 pm
by Topical2009
We all know someone who's confidently predicted the end of machining as we know it (actually, now I come to think of it, I am that man, or was, in 1989...1992...1995...etc). I think the big difference between 1989 and now is the state of the pub trade: I bet we all know dozens (hundreds?) of pubs which have gone upmarket and got rid of all their machines at the same time as they brought in the stripped pine furniture and put candles on the tables, not to mention the ones which have turned into Tescos, and Indian restaurants, and blocks of flats, or just been boarded up and left to rot. Even all the new JDWs over the last 20 years can't make up for that.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:46 pm
by trayhop123
10 years ago the brick lane area of london had fruits galore , now you'll do well to find any
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:55 pm
by paragoon
Reading some of the replies on here I thought - you never know, the darkest hour etc
Then today I saw the new Gamesnet menus on the big eggys! Great to see them bring some of the utter turd from the recent crap opens and the last dying itbox menu. Stuff like Pop The Question where the JP is £1 lol.
They got rid of PMP too. Utterly appalling.
Only one decent(ish) machine left now. That's the big problem.