$2 a game wouldn’t fly in Portland imo.
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Quoted from nogoodnames222:We would riot. People already bitch about $1/game on brand new machines (and what's funny is op's still seem to make decent money here).
Appropriate pricing is going to be super dependent on city + venue, when I lived in small town midwest I would've paid $1.50 to play Sword of Rage
Not to mention Next Level has everything on free play with a $20 door charge. 100+ pins in fantastic condition. Good luck charging anything over a dollar.
Quoted from Bud:Portland isn’t a good business model either, I’ve played a lot of locations there and pins were garbage wagons. In some instances I had to make an appointment for a time slot to play and it had to be for a specific title. Not to mention the human poo and tents on the sidewalks I had to walk around. I’m sure there are some quality locations there, I just didn’t get to visit them.
Next Level is the best location by far…but it is in a suburb outside the city. As far as homeless goes they’ll be in your big cities soon enough too.
There’s an app called Payrange that does close to that. Out here Quarter world arcade has it in place.
Quoted from Dr-Willy:Okay having older machines for cheaper is understandable and I’m all for that, the question at hand was will ops be charging $1.50 per play for Godzilla (the newest machine) so I took the comments in this thread of I’m not paying more then $1 per play to mean they won’t play Godzilla for $1.50.
Which takes us back to, if people aren’t paying to play the new stuff, means ops stop buying it, means stern sells less games (I know right now they are hotter then ever) but it starts a snowball effect of taking location pinball back to the dark times of not long ago which I don’t think anyone wants.
Also when an op comes on hard times (low collection months) and have to sell games to make it by, what machines go first? The ones they can sell for the most the fastest, which means if your op is sitting on a bunch of older pins that are paid off but worth the prices games are going for in today’s market, bye bye pinball. Not saying this is going to happen, but for the seasoned ops out there like LTG these words are all too true. Again a snowball effect can happen fast sometimes and with today’s economy and what’s going on across the US it’s very possible.
Just before covid, in 2019 Portland starting seeing $1 a game for new stuff. It’s generally cheaper here to encourage players in the door and make the money on the bar and kitchen. I could be wrong but my guess-is 1.50 or 2.00 a game won’t be successful after a week or two. Not that ops don’t deserve it, just that that’s the reality here.
Better deal for the pro.
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