A gaming paradise.

[Magnaflame]

I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if there was a company, who's business was to make gaming lounges. They would have all the consoles, a bunch of games, and comfy furniture, and internet. It would be a gaming paradise, like an arcade for consoles. What do you guys think about this, and what changes could be made, or what could be added.

 

[xitel]

There's been a couple of places like this, in fact I believe there's one near where I live...

 

[AuntyEthel]

They have similar rooms in HMV and Zavvi in London. Though they're pretty small and always filled with kids, so I've never actually played anything in it. It seems like a good idea, but if implemented they would probably be filled with the kind of retards who screw up online gaming for intelligent people.,

 

[Erana]

Personally, I'd prefer to game in the appropriate setting: IE: an almost whimsical forest for the Lost Woods in the Zelda series, an almost whimsical forest for the second level of Halo-
Or maybe I just want an almost whimsical forest...

 

[CoverYourHead]

There's a place like this near my home, but the windows let in the sun... I hate the sun... but the bean-bag chairs are awesome.

 

[KendayTheAbsolute]

if only...

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

yeah and the hookers in my basement are still alive



But in all serious that will never happen because you need to pay 2 play and who wants to hang out with people you dont know.

Wait! I live near this place called Hard Knox which is the most advanced laser tag system in the world and is super epic. and they have the best console set ups I have ever seen. And they hire Chicks from hooters as the cashiers and stuff.

Good god im going there now!

 

[Magnaflame]

That would be an Oasis to me. All it needs is crack whores, and Yahtzee as the full time entertainer.

You sir, need to be president of the U.S.

 

[Piotr621]

There has been an oasis like that made near where I live. My local library (to which I already have a card being the book worm I am) has brought in two xbox 360s and one ps3 as well as a large collection of games. You can play these for free for an hour! Only problem is there's no sense in beginning an rpg as you wouldn't get anywhere...

 

[Nargleblarg]

A place like that opened near me a few years ago it was the greatest I knew the owners a nice elderly couple. But all good things need to die and it was closed a few months ago. *sobs*

 

[geldonyetich]

I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if there was a company, who's whose business was to make gaming lounges.? They would have all the consoles, a bunch of games, and comfy furniture, and internet. It would be a gaming paradise,; like an arcade for consoles. What do you guys think about this,? and wWhat changes could be made, or what could be added.?

(Bite me, I can be a grammar Nazi if I want to.)

So, a bit of a cyber-cafe for gamers, eh? Not a bad idea, but I can see two issues that needs to be worked out:

• [li]How do you make money running one of these?[/li]
  [li]How do you cudgel the gamers out of their basements to walk all the way over to these shops to get what they could probably just get at home?[/li]

 

[Genta8]

They have a few places like that... Not that I know where of them actually ARE.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

A place like that is opening right near my house soon (hopefully). The state has been giving them so much trouble over it even though the whole town is for it. From what I know, they have new PCs, a few Xbox 360s, a few Wiis and a Rock Band stage area.

 

[fallen1]

Out by me there have been three of these kinds of places and each one of the closed down. It is because of a point made earier is that you have to get people to come from there home where they most likely have all of the stuff they want already. I mean the three places by me were holding tourneys and giving out cash prizes and giant boxes of candy, but eventually it just died out. You could probably get a good start and maybe even get a steady group to come, but most of those people are going to be under 17 and in high school. Over time they will either run out of money or lose interest. I think that in theroy it is a good idea, but actually doing something like that is really hard.

 

[fedpayne]

That would be an Oasis to me. All it needs is crack whores, and Yahtzee as the full time entertainer.

You sir, need to be president of the U.S.

And you need to be V.P.

Aww...

I go and play Left 4 Dead with 3 others on computers right next to me at a local place. They have snacks on hand and all is nice. Although the toilet is very hard to get to. And the place it's in looks like you might get zombie'd in there.

I guess you meant console too. Oh well.

 

[BigbadaBEEF]

That would be an Oasis to me. All it needs is crack whores, and Yahtzee as the full time entertainer.

You sir, need to be president of the U.S.

Seconded

 

[Magnaflame]

I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if there was a company, who's whose business was to make gaming lounges.? They would have all the consoles, a bunch of games, and comfy furniture, and internet. It would be a gaming paradise,; like an arcade for consoles. What do you guys think about this,? and wWhat changes could be made, or what could be added.?

(Bite me, I can be a grammar Nazi if I want to.)
They have to pay a fee to get in, ten bucks at most, three bucks at least, so it would be less than going to buy the game and console.

So, a bit of a cyber-cafe for gamers, eh? Not a bad idea, but I can see two issues that needs to be worked out:

• [li]How do you make money running one of these?[/li]
  [li]How do you cudgel the gamers out of their basements to walk all the way over to these shops to get what they could probably just get at home?[/li]

 

[geldonyetich]

They have to pay a fee to get in, ten bucks at most, three bucks at least, so it would be less than going to buy the game and console.

Lets say you've got office space going at $45/square foot/yr [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901340.html], you're working out of a 250 square foot hole in the wall, you've got a bill of about $1000/mo to pay for the rent. Add in utilities, lets say they're cheap, you're at about $1500/mo. So at about $5/visit we're going to need about 300 visits a month. (This is not considering the price of the consoles, games, and furniture, food, paying employees, ect...)

This is not to be anal, I'm just wondering why places like this tend to fold a lot. It takes a lot of overhead to run these things, and you need to get a lot of visitors to support it. So my thinking is for such an Oasis to survive you'd probably need to start it up in a neighborhood with enough people willing to visit, probably folk who don't own consoles of their own. (Better throw in the cost of theft insurance and bars on the windows.

 

[Magnaflame]

Oh... I'M SO SORRY!!!!! *sobs*

 

[fallen1]

They have to pay a fee to get in, ten bucks at most, three bucks at least, so it would be less than going to buy the game and console.

Lets say you've got office space going at $45/square foot/yr [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901340.html], you're working out of a 250 square foot hole in the wall, you've got a bill of about $1000/mo to pay for the rent. Add in utilities, lets say they're cheap, you're at about $1500/mo. So at about $5/visit we're going to need about 300 visits a month. (This is not considering the price of the consoles, games, and furniture, food, paying employees, ect...)

This is not to be anal, I'm just wondering why places like this tend to fold a lot. It takes a lot of overhead to run these things, and you need to get a lot of visitors to support it. So my thinking is for such an Oasis to survive you'd probably need to start it up in a neighborhood with enough people willing to visit, probably folk who don't own consoles of their own. (Better throw in the cost of theft insurance and bars on the windows.

Back like maybe ten or fifteen years ago this idea was really good and some places did it back then and made money. As time went on though people stopped going to them because of the fact that they would get the consoles or a friend would. The big thing is that eventually people realize, "Wait, I am spending $5/day at this place (more if they get food and drinks) when I could save up and get a console. Plus the other thing is that you run into is the need for all these attachments for games and expansions. Plus you have to then take into account the XBOX Live costs. You will 100% need to have security cameras and a place to lock up all the attachments and everything else you ahve of value. This idea will probably never really work out now in these times.