hey now Allen. double elimination means i randomed out TWO people with superjump spds and tigerknee fireball motions because their sticks were kinda scarier than even your lumberjack stick : p
i emailed the vice president of patton vending about the problems at sac state. He seemed surprised and a tad upset. Hopefully the shit will be fixed by the time i get there on thursday.
have them bring back any guilty gear too, I don’t care which
word. fix marvel so i can stop kicking everyone’s ass on the broke side.
what up with some guy doing block strings wrong in cvs2 and me just mashing activation through it ftw.
to the sac peeps I forwarded the big msg to, please send me a PM letting me know by FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 30TH, 2007
oh shit welcome back Tee!
wow feb 30th. nice one
“I appreciated your e-mail yesterday. We always enjoy hearing from our customers whether the comments are positive or negative. I would term your comments as constructive critcism and I have already forwarded your comments to our Sacramento manager Dave Pope. It does seem that we should not have the degree of problems you suggest given the fact that service personnel are at the University almost on a daily basis. Again, we appreciate your concern and we are looking into it.
Thanks
Jim”
:rolleyes:
LOL oops… make that March 2nd.:sad: im tired as hell, going to bed… som sucks, allen sucks, school sucks.
people, get off his back for the imaginary date thing. it’s ok. it’s all under control… he’s a business major. he can make it work
lol!
and i was gonna go play tonight 
tees the fuck out.
rc slaps
p-groove for life~~~~~
let’s do this
a-sak vs pgroove. word
wat happend to svc
the game god
Hello I am the guy who owns the machines at Sac State. I noticed that when I googled myself you folks were the only ones to come up. You are giving my company a bad name! We only fix what we know is broken, most of the time that is hard because the games are constantly being played. Behind the desk is a log that you can put in anything that is wrong.
Dave Pope
Patton Amusements
Dave,
The issues are written in the log. However, things such as “bad joysticks” are just tested by the technicion in diagnostics mode by spinning the stick in circles to insure that the directional inputs work. Then just signed off as fixed. But, while it may work they are simply not good.
My suggestion is to use quality HAPP parts. http://www.happcontrols.com
The ones of choice are the PERFECT 360 ELECTRONIC JOYSTICK because while they may cost more, they require very little maintainance and lasts much longer than regular switch based joysticks.
Mr. Pope- I will actually pay for one of those joysticks if you actually want to replace some of the ones at CSUS. The controls for various games at the arcade have been substandard for quite some time, as you may have been alerted to by the years of bitching here.
Hi Dave.
At American River College as of last Wednesday, Guilty Gear X, Street Fighter III:2nd Impact, Soul Calibur 3, and Street Fighter Alpha 3 all have broken sticks and/or buttons. Just a heads up.
Oh and a ton of people are pining for CVS2, in case you have one laying around.
what are you talking about, flamers… all you do is complain about broken stuff. why don’t you play the golden oldies like SF3:second impact and tekken 4??? just because all the competition on the national level and international level play the newer updates due to balance and improvements, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy badly programmed games with poor gamer reviews in light of the new ones!.. and if you’re whining about not having new games, you just need to know that EXTREME Deer Hunting is ALL THE RAVE. omfg i love that game so much. i’d spend billions and billions of dollars on that. so would all the other people in this world. i am so excited you put that in the arcade.
PS. that was all sarcasm, in case you mistook this post for the “request sheet” and ignored its implications…
EDIT: i guess i’m not helping with sarcasm alone, so here are some numbers…
hardier sticks (yes, the ones that cost about 10$ more) and more robust sticks (those added 1-2$ ones) will both last longer and provide better performance.
you might shell out an added 20$ on the machine initially, but at $0.25 per play, 80 games later, and it’ll break even.
for the record, 80 games of SF3:Third Strike will take about 4 hours. if you need to replace/tweak the buttons every 2 weeks, that will be at most 20$ a month. the stick, if you got the P360’s, might need replacement every month if everybody just goes in and tries to destroy it. EVEN THEN, you’d only be down about 50$ each month on Third Strike. People will be playing that a lot, so if you assume an average of 10hrs a week of playtime (a low number… i think it will get far more play on friday/weekends, but this is just to prove a point with worst-case numbers)… that would be about 700-900$ a month from Third Strike alone. The same argument can be made for CVS2 (only that might take 5mins per match instead of 2-3, but it seems more people might playthat because it’s fancier-looking)
so bottom line: 2k$ on a decent cabinet and stick/buttons for both 3S and CVS2, and it’ll be about 2-3 months to break completely even (assuming you didn’t sell off those obsolete games nobody ever touches). after that, all profit. I don’t see how this is a bad thing for your company.
Also, if people actually go there for tournaments, it can potentially draw players who don’t normally show up… then it draws more of a crowd.
Keep repairing those parts and people will actually play more. These two games won’t be getting old anytime soon. Perhaps in a few years when all the old-schoolers graduate and move on to jobs and settle off elsewhere. but until that happens, you’ve got a decent $2-3k a month.