Slot AP is dying in my area

Not sure if this is applicable to all areas but in my region casinos and manufacturers have removed over half of the AP slot inventory and have begun specifically targeting AP players. I suspect this is because of those who would camp for days and nights in the same spot and multi card.

Are you seeing this in your region too or is my area particularly bad?

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Not sure if this is applicable to all areas but in my region casinos and manufacturers have removed over half of the AP slot inventory and have begun specifically targeting AP players. I suspect this is because of those who would camp for days and nights in the same spot and multi card.

Are you seeing this in your region too or is my area particularly bad?
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That won't stop multi-carders.
New player freeplay is +ev even on 90% machines.

But yes, there's a casino near me removing the older AP games (ie: Buffalo link) and putting in newer games that are not AP. It's down to a dozen machines at this place.
No more camping. people come in, do their loop then leave.

and it's prophecy fulfilling too. They play less so less future freeplay, which makes them come less, which further reduces their freeplay till they stop coming in.

I still get triple digit freeplay each time i'm there but the irony is that i sometimes don't have anything to play.
And the freeplay isn't good on vp or e-Games.

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Are you seeing this in your region too or is my area particularly bad?
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I travel a bit. A number of properties I visit have been changing what games they have on the floor.

In some cases, it is clearly hardware attrition - 20+ year old cabinets that haven't quite worked right in the 10+ years I've seen them in play being removed, likely due to parts unavailability.

In other cases, leased licensed property games just get withdrawn. I haven't seen a lot of Britney or Sex in the City placements lately.

And yes, AP-able games can get taken off the floor, too.

I'm hearing stories about this everywhere, even outside the US. Without getting into all the political crap the tariffs are making it difficult to get certain foreign components. So machines are being retired rather than fixed.