1. Stop fruit machine companies from releasing anymore Deal or no Deal or clones of these shite machines.
Ok as this is a political thread, and directly relates to FME, here goes...
The reason modern machines are a bag of shite are the breweries [for the most part].
If the machines can't get sited in the big pub chains, then the rental operators won't buy the machines, hence low sales and dead company.
So the breweries make all sorts of requests about how the machines should play (tight as fu*k being one example).
If the cash box isn't full of punters money, they don't care if the game is good or not, and if it isn't full they'll be buying elsewhere pronto.
The manufacturers have to make what they can sell. It's a horrible situation, but there it is.
From an idealistic point of the view, the manufacturers should tell the breweries to bugger off. The manufacturers don't tell the breweries which types of beer they should sell, so why are the breweries telling the manufacturers what types of game to make.
DOND machines are only everywhere because punters keep playing them, and if it wasn't for DOND, BFM would've been dead long ago, another set of people out of work.
It would take a lot of money and time to start making 'playable' machines, you'd have to ignore all the breweries (easy cash if they are knocking at the door), and build up a reputation with the right punters (who left when the £500's came out).
It's not going to happen, the 80's were 25 years ago. Just be glad that soon (if it ever gets finished), you'll be able to play the good machines in all their glory.
