Hey guys just something im wondering. Do many people here in the UK still play fruit machines?
Seems to me that the whole fruit machine setup in the UK is nothing but a greedy shambles nowadays.
The worst culprits are wetherspoons pubs.
Its no longer the days where you have a bit of extra change from a pint, play a machine and walk away a few quid up. The machines trick you into playing, give false senses of security and eat your wallet like you are nothing.
It really goes against anything the spoons name once was renown for.
It was the place to go for proper beer. Now half the beers have not conditioned correctly and taste a bit odd, the staff serving times are just ridiculous and worse still is the amount of £70 jackpot fruit machines lurking round every single corner just waiting for you to crack and put hard earned cash into.
Our local spoons now has 7 fruit machines.
The machines generally are tight as hell with just a 70% payout and often £15+ needed for a single board.
Its 1 thing being in control and not playing them but too often you see in front of you someone getting extremely lucky and putting a few quid in and hitting jackpot which makes it even more tempting to play some of them.
Can say recently I was ripped off by machines there. In my last 4 visits I have lost in excess of £600 on their machines.
For example problem gamblers tend to be the people with very little cash so they will go somewhere to have a drink which is cheap. Naturally they will go to spoons because of the prices but then what? they are faced with excess fruit machines and all that temptation. The local arcade barely has that many there.
Seems to me that the whole fruit machine setup in the UK is nothing but a greedy shambles nowadays.
The worst culprits are wetherspoons pubs.
Its no longer the days where you have a bit of extra change from a pint, play a machine and walk away a few quid up. The machines trick you into playing, give false senses of security and eat your wallet like you are nothing.
It really goes against anything the spoons name once was renown for.
It was the place to go for proper beer. Now half the beers have not conditioned correctly and taste a bit odd, the staff serving times are just ridiculous and worse still is the amount of £70 jackpot fruit machines lurking round every single corner just waiting for you to crack and put hard earned cash into.
Our local spoons now has 7 fruit machines.
The machines generally are tight as hell with just a 70% payout and often £15+ needed for a single board.
Its 1 thing being in control and not playing them but too often you see in front of you someone getting extremely lucky and putting a few quid in and hitting jackpot which makes it even more tempting to play some of them.
Can say recently I was ripped off by machines there. In my last 4 visits I have lost in excess of £600 on their machines.
For example problem gamblers tend to be the people with very little cash so they will go somewhere to have a drink which is cheap. Naturally they will go to spoons because of the prices but then what? they are faced with excess fruit machines and all that temptation. The local arcade barely has that many there.