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

I love exaggerated BS when it's easy to call out.

"Some instances" of time slots = Wedgehead's covid-specific model, something that a lot of people liked (also not in place anymore). I personally enjoyed sessioning titles on freeplay, but even if you didn't, that was one location trying something new to make people comfortable during a global pandemic.

You must've had some bad luck to only find broken pins here. You've played a lot of locations in town but missed Next Level, Ground Kontrol, C Bar, Quarterworld? You can find dives with better lineups than dedicated arcades in a lot of cities, if it was as bad as you're making it out to be why would we have the most pinball per capita? Guess we just love putting quarters into our garbage wagons.

Bringing up the (irrelevant) homeless issue shows your bias against the city. We look forward to you not visiting again

Sorry, don't like guys hating indiscriminately on an entire city of operators (who do a genuinely kickass job of running a massive amount of games here).

This is becoming more and more evident the longer this thread goes on. There's no one-size-fits-all solution, I think the only thing operators should really take away from this is don't be afraid to try new things.

This post (and subsequent edit) on Reddit cracked me up:

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