Hey guys. Typically , how much does it cost to play the games at gameworks? Is it fair?
I think its a dollar or so per play, 3/5 rounds for SF4, T6 and Blazblue. I dont even know about KoF because nobody plays it.
Jeff’s lookin’ pretty salty over there. KOF is a team based game so there’s no rounds.
Thank you. I was trying to think of a way to say this, but you put it ever so elegantly. As though GW owes it to us? Haha! I’m not here to judge anyone’s morality or character. If you want to share a time card, go ahead. Lord knows I’ve asked for a swipe before without batting an eyelash. But the arguments in favor of sharing a time card are ridiculous.
You can’t justify sharing a card by saying “the sticks/cabinet sucks” or “I buy their beer/food and pay-per-play the rest of the week, so I should be able to share the card.” For probably about 90% of the customers, the time cards are most likely a good deal. If SFIV happens to have an 80 person line on Thursdays and you may not get your $10 worth, don’t buy a timecard. If you don’t like the sticks/cab, don’t play. If 10 or 20 people want to share a card, go ahead. Nobody’s stopping you, yet.
Yes, we spend our fair share of money at GW, so they probably at least owe it to us to keep the machines maintained. If they’re not working, though, there’s a simple solution. Ask a manager/tech to fix it (yes, I know this has been done multiple times without results). If that doesn’t work, stop playing there. If you choose to continue to play there despite nothing being done to fix it, live with it. If GW management says that we can pay them $10 and they’ll put the machine on freeplay for 3 hours on Thursday nights, then great. Until then, it’s share at your own risk.
And guess what?
NIGGA THE STICKS STILL SUCK AND I’LL ASK FOR TIME CARDS REGARDLESS!
bodybag. end of discussion.
Where’s your cape Clark? Any phone booths in your vicinity? I don’t want Nolan er Superman, to find me using time cards.
This discussion is just a difference of opinion in the end, and there are a lot of people who will feel one way or another. Everyone just do your own thing. There is a rule that sharing timecards is not allowed so with that said just do what you will. But I will say posting in a thread about sharing cards, in the very thread some GW people might read is kind of a bad idea.
I think I THINK we should all go play the basketball game haha
I think both sides of the table are sound in their views. I definitely see the rationale for wanting to save money, or not being able to afford to play, or even games being too expensive/sticks broken.
However, I really don’t think Nolan should be shat on for sharing his thoughts either. Without centralized hubs to hook up and play games together, the scene starts to evaporate. People got pretty chicken little about stuff when Zachs closed down for a while.
I seriously doubt GW has paid off the SF4 machine or its associated costs. These places rarely make money off the actual games, the grill and bar and whatever else is where the money is.
This reminds me of the piracy debate, a lot of the same types of concerns and debates. Ultimately, yeah I do copy shit, and yeah I did share time cards (but I was always the one that bought them). I didn’t lose sleep over it, but I’m not gonna yell it from the rooftops that I’m the avenger of inustices because the sticks aren’t working or because shit is expensive or whatnot.
Hope this didn’t sound too biased one way or the other or sound like Im taking shots at anyone. I think people just need to see each others side without condeming or making it a big deal.
As things happened to have turned out for me, I finally got a job since I moved up here, yay. The downside is that I work again tomorrow at 6:30 am, so I won’t be staying late enough for time cards anyways. So there goes my chances to see if GWs would give me a warning tonight. I’m not worried about ever being banned, because the only way that would happen is if I responded to their warning like a total asshole, which is simply not who I am.
I had my first day of work today, and I’m freakin’ exhausted right now. If I don’t make out tonight at all it’s because I’m too tired. We’ll see though. If I don’t, isn’t there going to be a gathering tomorrow? If so how would I be able to attend? Someone PM please if they know anything, thanks.
Grats on the job! Shit’s tough to find these days.
What sort of job is it there Tanaka?
If it’s anything related to Monkeys, we can swap stories.
Jared…you coming out? I’ll have a Mac n Jacks for ya!
Naw, I can’t make it this time. We’ll see what happens next week. You going to Zach’s?
Lol mandel stop beastin
All I know is that I’m about to summon 15 cent again when I get the chance.
Dude you think that shit is hella funny, but it’s not.
Anyone hear about the new arcade going into Lincoln square same level as the lucky strike lanes. The news had a quick snippet about it the other day.
orly
google ftw
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/bel/lifestyle/63872757.html
is this what you speak of?
Yeah, I’ll have to check it out when it opens but I kind of don’t expect SF4 to show up. The kid who wrote the article went to my HS apparently (well, I went there like 6 years ago…)