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[fruitsnappa]

Well acording to Barcrest's website it is.

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[mastermart]

Well acording to Barcrest's website it is.

Barcrest Group :: Welcome

it is indeed ! first sightings in london 70 pound rainbow riches

[skabaz]

yep we got confimation it was brought 2 days forward to today so we installed about 6 today.

only another 200 to go.

baz

[Adolmino]

I notice there all multistake .

£1 - £70 jp

£40 jp seems to be the next lower one , does anyone know the stake , my guess would be 50p ?

and i notice another lower one £10jp ? what stake is this ?

Anyone know the stakes of these new £70 jp machines .

Cheers

[Bencrest]

Their absolute pants just like the £35 ones were:eek:

... at least £35 was only a minor improvement on the £25 jackpot... now we are at almost 3x the £25 jackpot.

[Bencrest]

Yep your deffo right there but in my opinion the £70 jp are gonna cause alot of heart ache for the hard core gamblers and there familys.

Oh definitely, although to be fair I believe the actual 'hard-core' of gamblers probably moved onto the S16s, then the B3s and FOBTs.

This might convert those who were otherwise casual gamblers into a more dedicated player. Let's be honest, these machines are going to play absolutely terribly - the jackpot level, which £70 on the sticker, has been agreed at £210 assuming 2 repeats occur (see my post at Fruit Forums : Fruit Forums - View Single Post - a fruit emulation thread YEA I KNOW! )

I think it's completely unethical to advertise the machines as offering up to two repeats - given that the repeats will presumably be pre-determined?

It's basically leading people to believe that when they get the £70 (which I imagine will be a complete ballache) that they have a real chance of walking away with £140 / £210. Which they probably will, if the machine has played completely flat and has only been offering £2 blocked boards every £10 for the last £300.

[Bencrest]

When you put it like that i must agree with ya . /what i don't get is when red gaming upgrade there machines how are they gonna be coded because reds are well known for going 1 or 2 repeats on the big money feature.

This is where there is a *VERY* gray area, which is something I'm not keen on either.

Obviously, they admit that the machine can pay £210 from the Jackpot, assuming it repeats twice.

What about non-jackpot streaks? Let's say you get £210 from a board. What is to stop the next board, £2 later, awarding £50 say? What about the next board, say another £2 later... what's to stop that awarding another £50?

Scary stuff.

I'd be much happier if they went back to say the £15 Jackpot - that was probably the last setting, for me, that offered genuine entertainment. It could still streak, and it could still suck - but not with quite as disasterous consequences as the new jackpots and stakes.

£1 per spin, in a pub?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Two spins on a machine, or a pint of beer... hmmm... what about Red Gaming and others with the 'Pre Game 'Super / Mega' Gamble'? Say you play Mega on £1 Play. You might not get a spin for £8. That might take 5 seconds if you hold the start button in.

£8 staked in 5 seconds? Awesome. That's just what the industry needs.

[SUPER7]

Im staying well clear of these £70 badboys & i mean well clear!! I think im sticking with tuppenny nudger, lol!!

[Richard]

it will be interesting to see if red gaming keep to the current 2+ JP profile, similar to gamesmedia's selection which commonly go for 2/3 JP's.....

time will tell...

[jamespir]

the ones in our local shipleys have been turned of because the lady said thyre crap and no one wants to play them

[Bencrest]

the ones in our local shipleys have been turned of because the lady said thyre crap and no one wants to play them

That's a crap excuse. How are people supposed to play them if they are turned off?

Don't get me wrong, I imagine they are crap - but to just turn them off shows a complete lack of effort and not wanting to succeed as a business.

I'll bet they'll blame everyone but themselves when they close for good

[gambogaz1]

They've barely had chance to have them installed! So how can they come to the assumption they're crap already??? Something smells round here

[Magz]

So she's saving electricity? Seems a bit of an odd thing to do...

[gmanthedemon]

I was on a DOND Crazy Chair this afternoon that has been upgraded from £35 jp to £70, and it'll be the last time I go on!