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What would you consider the average number of plays before “the honeymoon” with your new pin is officially over?
Curious to see at what point you all feel you have settled in with a new machine and can objectively finalize your opinion of it.
Quoted from BC_Gambit:I think your poll needs more options on the low end.
Given how many collectors seem to seek out a game, set it up, mod the crap out of it, but only put 50 odd plays on the thing over 6 months to a year or more. Then they sell it.
added some lower play count options!
Quoted from Dent00:I guess I have a different perspective. I expected to see how much time had passed on the poll. I probably play my machine 10 times a day. If something does not function properly, I fix it and keep on playing. I just don't understand why people will pay so much for a machine and only play it like 100 times. Almost like they don't really like playing their brand new machine after paying a mountain of cash for it. So, if you have a machine for about a year, it will probably get pretty easy to know the rules and all the details and it becomes less challenging to blow it up. From my perspective, that is when the honeymoon is over. Playing the game 100 times will probably happen in the 1st week in my case.
Yeah I thought about adding a “number of days” poll option but then felt it better to pick one data point. Seemed like “number of plays” was a better gauge than “number of days”. Mainly because I feel like you do...if a game has sit in a collection for a year with only 50 plays on it, then in my opinion it may as well be in a curio cabinet to keep the dust off it.
I’m more interested in knowing how many plays before you can determine whether or not you like, love, hate or are indifferent on a machine you purchased.
Quoted from onemoresean:When it's not the first machine you go to.
I think this is a great indicator and never thought of that!
That’s the exact point when a machine has officially “blended into the herd” (your collection).
That’s also likely the moment at which point your main opinion on a game is locked in.
Good observation!
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