Is the resistance data driven or fear driven?

Everyone knows who has a modern computer, that if you wanted, you could play 10,000 video games or more if you wanted to on it if you have enough ram, and can download a steam game. So there has to be a reason that casinos don’t have universal terminals that could play virtually any slot based game anywhere in the casino.

Is it stigma, fear of competition or actual data? Shouldn’t you be able to download the particular game you want from a menu wherever you go in the casino?

Every particular issue with it has a solution I think. After a certain number of actual buttons installed, active button could be lighted and inactive buttons dark. Any other button system particular to the game could be changed virtually.

Game makers could pay extra to have their particular signature game console installed over the universal terminal.
And they could also pay extra to have their game featured more prominently on an inactive games.

It probably doesn’t fit very well within the current system of how game producers make money, but just wondering..

One advantage or disadvantage is people hanging out together could sit together playing different games. Does sitting together encourage longer play or less?

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Does sitting together encourage longer play or less?
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Yes. I've seen both.

There are likely to be problems with single machine progressives, although they seem to have solved this problem in Montana... I could be overthinking.

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Everyone knows who has a modern computer, that if you wanted, you could play 10,000 video games or more if you wanted to on it if you have enough ram, and can download a steam game. So there has to be a reason that casinos don’t have universal terminals that could play virtually any slot based game anywhere in the casino.

Is it stigma, fear of competition or actual data? Shouldn’t you be able to download the particular game you want from a menu wherever you go in the casino?

Every particular issue with it has a solution I think. After a certain number of actual buttons installed, active button could be lighted and inactive buttons dark. Any other button system particular to the game could be changed virtually.

Game makers could pay extra to have their particular signature game console installed over the universal terminal.
And they could also pay extra to have their game featured more prominently on an inactive games.

It probably doesn’t fit very well within the current system of how game producers make money, but just wondering..
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there is definitely machines that can download multiple different games and has been for a long time ... but you specifically "mean one slot machine" or multiple manufactures who produce for one "operating system"...?

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Everyone knows who has a modern computer, that if you wanted, you could play 10,000 video games or more if you wanted to on it if you have enough ram, and can download a steam game. So there has to be a reason that casinos don’t have universal terminals that could play virtually any slot based game anywhere in the casino.

Is it stigma, fear of competition or actual data? Shouldn’t you be able to download the particular game you want from a menu wherever you go in the casino?

Every particular issue with it has a solution I think. After a certain number of actual buttons installed, active button could be lighted and inactive buttons dark. Any other button system particular to the game could be changed virtually.

Game makers could pay extra to have their particular signature game console installed over the universal terminal.
And they could also pay extra to have their game featured more prominently on an inactive games.

It probably doesn’t fit very well within the current system of how game producers make money, but just wondering..
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there is definitely machines that can download multiple different games and has been for a long time ... but you specifically "mean one slot machine" or multiple manufactures who produce for one "operating system"...?
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I definitely have seen multiple game terminals, not sure if they download. But yeah, I am talking one universal terminal to play virtually any game. Even would be nice to call up retro games from years ago. But it would need the cooperation of many manufacturers. While I think customers would like it better than the game companies.

The reason I started to think about this, was I was remembering when they first really started introducing the non-smoking sections in Vegas. The first thing one noticed was a very limited selection of games because they were such small areas. If it didn't have a game, you were out of luck. And I remember even thinking at the time, it was kind of ridiculous, because it is a general microprocessor possibly capable even then of holding many more games.

So I started wondering if there was actionable loss of profit, or just superstition behind limiting machines. It's dumb to lose capacity for no good reason.

As far as I know, they all run on some variant of Linux. I don't know for certain, as owning a slot machine, even for personal use is actually illegal in my state.

That said, I suspect that the reason that you don't see a generic "slotstation" is that game manufacturers want to put all that 'flair' on the outside. They justify it by saying "the gambler can find their machine more easily", which is definitely irrelevant if the slotstation can play anything. It's also a quick way to see where their games are and what the market is. Buffalo games seemed to be taking over CET casinos on the East Coast right up to CoVID. Now, it's all Chinese-themed games. As a non-slots player, it's fascinating to watch fads sweep through the casinos. The electronic waste, though, is something else.

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As far as I know, they all run on some variant of Linux. I don't know for certain, as owning a slot machine, even for personal use is actually illegal in my state.

That said, I suspect that the reason that you don't see a generic "slotstation" is that game manufacturers want to put all that 'flair' on the outside. They justify it by saying "the gambler can find their machine more easily", which is definitely irrelevant if the slotstation can play anything. It's also a quick way to see where their games are and what the market is. Buffalo games seemed to be taking over CET casinos on the East Coast right up to CoVID. Now, it's all Chinese-themed games. As a non-slots player, it's fascinating to watch fads sweep through the casinos. The electronic waste, though, is something else.
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the one and only game that ive seen runs on something called QNX and is a linux variant created by blackberry so i think the first part of that was true

http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_1329_3.html?lang=de

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Play a slot machine - QNX powers an intercasino system that connects statewide gaming machines with a central computer. The system, which can pay out multi-million-dollar winnings, must perform a host of complex functions with zero tolerance for error.

In the UK in casinos who are only allowed 20 machines, you can usually play a number of different games on each machine. In my local there were different banks of machines, each from a different distributor, which had similar list of games. So you might have a bank of IGT machines, another bank of Fort Knox (linked jackpot), etc. I think there's an advantage of, in that zone you can play these games, over there are these ones etc. That way when you're fed up you can either move or just switch games on the same machine.

Back in video game arcade days it was technically possible to have multiple games in one cabinet, but most companies still only had one game per. I'm sure the MBA brainiacs in the home office did all the marketing, manufacturing, and legal research at the time and figured out that was the best way. It's probably similar to slot machines nowadays.

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Game makers could pay extra to have their particular signature game console installed over the universal terminal.
And they could also pay extra to have their game featured more prominently on an inactive games.
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That last one could be the main reason. Don't most games have attract modes that have sound? What good is having multiple games, especially from different companies, available if there's only one game being advertised?