puggie.pete
Dormant account
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2008
- Location
- Glasgow
Are we sitting comfortably? Then let us begin.
About 2 month's ago a few friends and I were moaning about the lack of real feature packed fruit machines in UK pubs. They're a disappearing breed being replaced by video boxes, 50p spin machines and casino slots elsewhere.
So, we asked, 'what if there was a site that concentrated on the very best pub fruits, could it be done and could we do it'? Turns out it was the most expensive question we've ever asked, and the question that has got more abuse from forums than I have ever seen.
We, naively, thought fruit players would welcome this as the entire thing would concentrate on the amusement and playability aspect rather than the dosh. Equally, we thought the guys in forums would be delighted.
So, we popped into a few forums to ask players what did they want to see on this site, what kind of machines do they want resurrected and what features they most want to play. We would then build the machines in phase 2.
Jesus, if only we'd known.
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All of us have day jobs so we don't need this site, and we're beginning to think it is more hassle than it's worth.
We're doing this because we love the traditional feature packed machines which are disappearing and want to release games of a world class standard, which means we have to have a pay for option in order to fund it. You can pay if you like, but you can also play forever for free. Your choice.
We certainly are not going to retire on this otherwise we wouldn't have 5p spins available.
I would suggest it is what you do with the profit (if there is any) that counts. Say we make 10 grand, you can then spunk it on a trip to Vegas and have stories to tell, or you can reinvest it in the site to make more traditional feature packed fruits. We have to go down the latter route otherwise people will get bored, again, we all have day jobs so survive without any income from this venture.
Even asking for beta testers was an invitation to tear something down even before it was built up.
Profit = dirty big fat cats.
Top glass games to the emulation guys = so you're saying our version are crap?
We just can't win.
Are all forums like this or is it just a British thing?
And thanks hushda24 for supporting us. He posted a thread recently called "This will be interesting for UK fruity players". It was interesting, unbiased, non threatening and from a guy prepared to give others a chance before passing judgement.
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About 2 month's ago a few friends and I were moaning about the lack of real feature packed fruit machines in UK pubs. They're a disappearing breed being replaced by video boxes, 50p spin machines and casino slots elsewhere.
So, we asked, 'what if there was a site that concentrated on the very best pub fruits, could it be done and could we do it'? Turns out it was the most expensive question we've ever asked, and the question that has got more abuse from forums than I have ever seen.
We, naively, thought fruit players would welcome this as the entire thing would concentrate on the amusement and playability aspect rather than the dosh. Equally, we thought the guys in forums would be delighted.
So, we popped into a few forums to ask players what did they want to see on this site, what kind of machines do they want resurrected and what features they most want to play. We would then build the machines in phase 2.
Jesus, if only we'd known.
<snip>
All of us have day jobs so we don't need this site, and we're beginning to think it is more hassle than it's worth.
We're doing this because we love the traditional feature packed machines which are disappearing and want to release games of a world class standard, which means we have to have a pay for option in order to fund it. You can pay if you like, but you can also play forever for free. Your choice.
We certainly are not going to retire on this otherwise we wouldn't have 5p spins available.
I would suggest it is what you do with the profit (if there is any) that counts. Say we make 10 grand, you can then spunk it on a trip to Vegas and have stories to tell, or you can reinvest it in the site to make more traditional feature packed fruits. We have to go down the latter route otherwise people will get bored, again, we all have day jobs so survive without any income from this venture.
Even asking for beta testers was an invitation to tear something down even before it was built up.
Profit = dirty big fat cats.
Top glass games to the emulation guys = so you're saying our version are crap?
We just can't win.
Are all forums like this or is it just a British thing?
And thanks hushda24 for supporting us. He posted a thread recently called "This will be interesting for UK fruity players". It was interesting, unbiased, non threatening and from a guy prepared to give others a chance before passing judgement.
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