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I saw either this, or something similar on Craigslist (I think it was a different one).
Just two thoughts on your SPAM because it is a cool idea:
1. Your website sucks
2. This costs a lot more than Chuck E Cheese
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Last edited by TheGameBox; 08-19-2009 at 01:47 AM.
I saw either this, or something similar on Craigslist (I think it was a different one).
Just two thoughts on your SPAM because it is a cool idea:
1. Your website sucks
2. This costs a lot more than Chuck E Cheese
At least throw a photo of this crazy ass limo up, I know you have yet to do a party but damn snap some pic of it in the driveway.
O and for the weekend the "Game coach" should be at least 2 hot chicks in bikini's and host madden tournys or halo lan parties for the older crowd....I bet that will get more books than the kid parties.
Are hookers allowed in your limos?
Can you clean up stains?
Do you usher patrons during drive-bys?
Can I pay you in 8-balls?
Can you take me to Chuck-E-Cheese?
with a 300 made in china 1080p projector on ebay i can replicate your whole "experience"
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Last edited by TheGameBox; 08-19-2009 at 01:49 AM.
Wait until the game developers find about them using their games for this business model, as well as xbox, ps3 etc. Good luck with that buddy. You will eventually get sued into the stone age.
Eh, you've got a lot to learn about business. Either get some shots of it under construction, or shots of a similar model that's already been assembled.
You really need to be pushing specials for bookings before it's completed.
It's not even done yet so push some specials, regular price is 300.00, maybe a pre-booking special of 225.00. Start the ball rolling on some Madden tournaments.
Just make sure you've actually paid for, and have the rig being built.
How do you figure? You've never heard of a gaming center? I have and I've certainly NEVER heard of one getting sued.
LMAO says the guy always bragging about getting a game early from the underground
First of all I used to own a small gaming center in Florida and I closed for that very reason. Many of the gaming parlors are operating illegally. A few are paying steep licensing fees to use games. And yes many have been sued and or shut down.
If this guy has a lawyer worth a damn he would already know this. Read the terms of use on any game, it specifically says game my not be rented or leased this is in there to protect themselves from gaming parlors from making money off of their IP without paying them fees. Some companies are fairly reasonable others not so much like Blizzard.
Laws are one thing and enforcement are another, but you never know when you until you get that first letter in the mail from the Dev's legal beagles.
What is your point? What I do is in the privacy of my own home, very much unlikely to get caught. His business model leaves him wide open to exposure. He will be advertising his business etc, all it will take is one pissed off customer who knows the laws regarding such business and his goose is cooked.LMAO says the guy always bragging about getting a game early from the underground
Last edited by Heath Ledger; 08-19-2009 at 01:00 AM.
Your 3rd-grade business model is more illegal than the hookers and blow i requested, Uncle Jesse.
I supposed you could be right. The people I saw were a franchisee of this company:
http://www.g2u.com/
Presumably they secure the necessary licensing from publishers.
Check out their photo gallery...
here is some good reading. just one example, valva and blizzard are bas s but many devs go suehappy when they are not paid licensing from cybercafes etc.
Valve Bullys Cybercafé
Posted by Ernest Miller
One of the most interesting aspects of the gaming world for me is the LAN party. Sure, online play is great, but the social atmosphere of playing a networked game in physical proximity to the other players on a LAN is fantastic. LAN play and online play hardly compare.
Just a couple of examples: there are few lamers and griefers at a LAN party thanks to the social norms resulting from physical proximity; and, sure, you can use headsets to talk during online play, but it is nothing compared to the before/during/after social interaction of LAN play.
Anyone interested in seeing gaming thrive even more should be supporting and encouraging LAN play.
However, setting up such LANs can be burdensome: hauling around and setting up network gear, PCs or Xboxes, and enough displays is not easy, nor is ensuring all software is patched and up-to-date.
Of course, there are commercial establishments called cybercafés or LAN centers where you can join a group of friends in LAN play without the hassle, for a fee. Many also sponsor regular league play and tournaments. However, the cybercafé industry is new, small and fragmented. Most are barely profitable. Though I like to think of them as the new bowling alleys, they haven't really caught on. [Disclosure: I run a small company on the side, GameJockeys, that will set up a private LAN party for corporate events, parties, etc.]
Game licensing is a serious concern for cybercafés; they realize they need it to operate legally, but it has been hard to come by. Most software companies don't understand their needs and have difficulty nego ating such small licenses with individual members of a fragmented business community. This is changing, however, with companies such as Microsoft offering licenses through cybercafé organizations like iGames such that as long as each copy of a le is legitimately purchased, cybercafés may use them. This licensing arrangement benefits the struggling cybercafé industry and the game industry as a whole by promoting social LAN gaming. [disclosure: GameJockeys is a member of iGames]
On the other hand Valve, a company that has thrived in significant part because of LAN play, is taking a different tack. They are requiring cybercafés to use some seriously problematic software to run the games (Steam) as well as charging what is, for cybercafés, a significant amount of money to have any Valve game available. Fair enough. If that is how Valve wants to license its games, that is their choice. If LAN center customers want to know why Valve games aren't available, that can readily be explained to them.
Of course, these requirements are relatively new. Prior to these licensing requirements, some cybercafés operated in a bit of a grey zone, making the games available in their centers as the licensing issues were worked out. I'm not sure why BattleGround PC Gaming was making Counter-Strike - the five-year old game which is freely downloadble as a Half-Life Mod - available in their center without a proper license, but they did.
Well, Valve Software has sent BattleGround PC Gaming a cease and desist letter. Normally, such a letter would offer three options: a) cease using the software; b) license the software; or, c) get sued. In a bullying fashion, Valve has dropped option a). Rather than simply allow BattleGround PC Gaming to stop using the software, Valve is demanding that BattleGround pay up front for a one-year license or get sued.
What Valve is doing is legally permissible. That doesn't make it right. Perhaps fans of LAN gaming and the professional gaming leagues ought to consider whether Valve's aggressive, overbearing stance is helpful to the gaming community or not. Next time you're considering playing a game of Counter-Strike, why not consider Halo or Battlefield instead?
The text of the License or Be Sued letter is below:
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Last edited by TheGameBox; 08-19-2009 at 01:49 AM.
My girlfriend has a gamebox, sometimes she let's me play it but it doesn't cost me 300.00..........
I just lost the game.
Well maybe you do have the legal side of things in check, but from a marketing/promotions side of things you've got a ways to go.
So since you have money for legal counsel. Where should I send you the advertising bill for using my website to advertise?
What do you think advertising costs on a website that gets millions of page views a month? Find the average rate and I'll send you a bill for that.
Otherwise, stop spamming my site. Thanks.
I love it when she does that.
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Last edited by TheGameBox; 08-19-2009 at 01:49 AM.
Well you went about it the wrong way, you should have made an account, posted a few times, pretending to be a spursfan, then after say a week or two casually bring up the fact your opening a new business.
If it were my forum I would have deleted your post right away but that is Kori's call not mine.
First post on the forum spamming your company is NOT cool. Kori has let me plug my site in the buy sell trade forum without giving me any which is much appreciated.
Last edited by Heath Ledger; 08-19-2009 at 01:17 AM.
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Last edited by TheGameBox; 08-19-2009 at 01:50 AM.
It's good to promote, but when you've got nothing to promote it doesn't work very well.
I don't know exactly what you're working with or what it looks like but something might very well be better than nothing.
A lot of people actually like to see things being built, there are a ton of automotive related forums where people watch other people build, or restore cars. That's just one example of many, and in this information age we live in people crave it.
If you had shots of a stack of Xbox 360's and a stack of Madden 10 games I bet you'd get a few of us drooling, but at this point you haven't gotten anyone excited about what you're doing, and isn't that the point?
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