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[thelement]

I used to enjoy playing fruit machines..£30 could last you hours but their was a point of no return & it was unlikely that you could recover that £30 loss..

In the last 6 years gambling stakes have increased & the skill level & entertainment value has decreased & its an alarming trend for the new generation.

Eg a £70 jackpot machine will average at least £4 to get a feature which can offer a minimum £1 win & just look at the popularity of those b3 machines ..

you can spin £10 every 4 seconds on some machines & as much as 100 per spin on the internet, ive also seen a deal or no deal game with a £1000 bet stake on sky vegas. My salary has not increased much in 6 years yet its common to witness people losing £100s per day with no chance of recovery.


Gambling is a form of entertainment but how did the researchers come up with these crazy betting stakes & succesfully minimize gamblers intelligence? when did the new generation have infinite funds?

what is skillful & entertaining about waiting for a random win on the majority of games being released?

Edited by thelement, 17 October 2010 - 01:53 PM.

[hornynick]

B3s are about addicts *trying* to win money, nothing more and nothing less.
Although I agree as prizes go up, entertainment goes down.

[brucegeorge]

You can still use skill on the £70 machines there are alot of hints and tips people know that help the player but for the person who spends the odd £10 every now and again its just not worth it anymore and the fun side has gone big time but we all have been saying this for close to 10 years

[Johnnyafc]

£10 for a pint f***in hell lol

[nails]

sorry, i missred the title as `what happened to skill ball bingo` (or at least i thought thats what it said at a quick glimps)

so called `skill ball bingo` dissapear are, quite litteraly it was not skill at all, therefore was changed category.


if you want to keep it fun, i suggest you seek out 10p and 25p play machines, for me thats like paint drying. i dont mean to sound arrogunt, but i dont play to have fun and lose. i play to have fun and win money. a few hundread to me is winning money, where as a jackpot £5 repeater to me is an insult.

[roderz]

Eg a £70 jackpot machine will average at least £4 to get a feature which can offer a minimum £1 win.

£4 av ???
you must have way better luck than me then, I ploughed £60 through a monopoly (on juice machine) without a single win! £10 more in and it gave 1 £1 win with exchange to board - 1st spin on board DEAD
= £72.90 for one pint !!


That's way I don't play anything any more unless I know that I have an advantage over joe blogs - if ya know what I mean ;-)

Edited by roderz, 17 October 2010 - 10:34 PM.

[Guitar]

if you want to keep it fun, i suggest you seek out 10p and 25p play machines, for me thats like paint drying. i dont mean to sound arrogunt, but i dont play to have fun and lose. i play to have fun and win money. a few hundread to me is winning money, where as a jackpot £5 repeater to me is an insult.

Wow you must have a lot of spare cash around, what is it you do for a living, oh yeah...