It's the hope I can't stand
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:53 am
A good phrase that,often used by football fans,and I think it sums up my feelings about the quiz machine world at the moment.I keep hoping that surely they'll sort out the problems soon and have some reliable machines with a decent line-up of games.I could almost cope better with the finality of an announcement that quiz machines will have disappeared by a certain date.
I don't know if anyone from the industry reads this forum,so I may be typing away pointlessly (no change there then lol) but if there are,then imagine this analogy:You start doing a pub quiz with your mates and it's not bad,maybe not as good as a one you went to a while back,but still quite good.You've been going for a couple of months,even won some prizes once or twice,then one week the quizmaster refuses to accept your money.You try coins and notes but he's having none of it and you can't play.You're a bit puzzled but you go next week and it's back to normal.The week after you actually win the quiz for the first time,but the questionmaster refuses to pay out the top prize and asks for your details instead,saying that he might have it some time next week or the week after.You're now all close to giving up on it,but you give it one more chance,but none of the pens the questionmaster hands out actually work,and the music round is so quiet you can't hear it.You all then decide never to bother trying to play the quiz again and simply meet up for a drink.
Pub quizzes are quite an old idea now but remain popular (even with the younger generation) because none of the above actually happens.
I don't know if anyone from the industry reads this forum,so I may be typing away pointlessly (no change there then lol) but if there are,then imagine this analogy:You start doing a pub quiz with your mates and it's not bad,maybe not as good as a one you went to a while back,but still quite good.You've been going for a couple of months,even won some prizes once or twice,then one week the quizmaster refuses to accept your money.You try coins and notes but he's having none of it and you can't play.You're a bit puzzled but you go next week and it's back to normal.The week after you actually win the quiz for the first time,but the questionmaster refuses to pay out the top prize and asks for your details instead,saying that he might have it some time next week or the week after.You're now all close to giving up on it,but you give it one more chance,but none of the pens the questionmaster hands out actually work,and the music round is so quiet you can't hear it.You all then decide never to bother trying to play the quiz again and simply meet up for a drink.
Pub quizzes are quite an old idea now but remain popular (even with the younger generation) because none of the above actually happens.