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I have to admit, I'm a little perplexed. Where would someone find these games? In a casino? Weird.

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Did anyone catch at the bottom:

"Pariplay's parent company, GMS Entertainment, is 50% owned by video game publisher Majesco Entertainment Company"

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Interesting, but not something I would have expected. I guess this proves that VEI is solvent enough for now if they have extra money to throw at an unusual market like this. They keep building up lots of different revenue streams and before you know it they'll be starting their own movie studio! (Hey, a guy can dream, right?)
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i don't see how comic fans translate into gambling dollars.

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I live in Vegas so i'll keep a lookout.

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ilzuccone wrote:i don't see how comic fans translate into gambling dollars.
I doubt if they expect the regular comic fans to specifically go make a trip to spend money on these (although a rich hardcore fan could maybe buy a machine?), but looking at Pairplay's site, it seems that alot of their games might be online gambling things. Might not have to make a trip at all. If they can get the games made and then also get any physical game machines distributed to casino's or whatever, I don't see a problem with them making some money off them. People in casino's will just wander around and play whatever looks interesting I would imagine. So it may not be targeting their current audience specifically, but may make them a modest income stream and put their name and properties in front of people who wouldn't normally see them any other way. Could be a good thing as long as they aren't hurting for the initial money that they're investing to start this up.

I also saw on Pairplay's site that they have set up a deal similar to VEI's with Atari to bring a lot of their old game properties back via new gambling games and such. So Pairplay isn't just a nobody. Also, the Majesco entertainment main site shows many recognizable console games going back quite a ways. So they are a well established company as well.
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Blizzard, but developing a relationship with a video game company (as many bad memories that may induce) is a good thing and spreading awareness of VEI properties is always positive.
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BugsySig wrote:Blizzard, but developing a relationship with a video game company (as many bad memories that may induce) is a good thing and spreading awareness of VEI properties is always positive.
"Blizzard" ??? What? I don't get what this is in reference to.
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Phoenix8008 wrote: Could be a good thing as long as they aren't hurting for the initial money that they're investing to start this up.
pariplay could have approached valiant. meaning no money out of valiant's pocket. these gambling companies are probably always on the hunt for properties to make their games stick out.

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Phoenix8008 wrote:
BugsySig wrote:Blizzard, but developing a relationship with a video game company (as many bad memories that may induce) is a good thing and spreading awareness of VEI properties is always positive.
"Blizzard" ??? What? I don't get what this is in reference to.
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ilzuccone wrote:
Phoenix8008 wrote: Could be a good thing as long as they aren't hurting for the initial money that they're investing to start this up.
pariplay could have approached valiant. meaning no money out of valiant's pocket. these gambling companies are probably always on the hunt for properties to make their games stick out.
Yeah, agree. This seems like a low cost, low risk move for VEI.

VEI is leveraging some success and character recognition to build a strategic partnership with a company that is going to use those characters to add some extra notoriety to their games.

VEI benefits hopefully with some added brand recognition from people who wouldn't normally care about these characters.
And maybe a small cut of the profits

Pariplay gets to use VEI's characters for their products ... with some significant cross marketing from VEI.
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bygranddesign wrote:
ilzuccone wrote:
Phoenix8008 wrote: Could be a good thing as long as they aren't hurting for the initial money that they're investing to start this up.
pariplay could have approached valiant. meaning no money out of valiant's pocket. these gambling companies are probably always on the hunt for properties to make their games stick out.
Yeah, agree. This seems like a low cost, low risk move for VEI.

VEI is leveraging some success and character recognition to build a strategic partnership with a company that is going to use those characters to add some extra notoriety to their games.

VEI benefits hopefully with some added brand recognition from people who wouldn't normally care about these characters.
And maybe a small cut of the profits

Pariplay gets to use VEI's characters for their products ... with some significant cross marketing from VEI.
Yep, sounds like a win/win situation to me!
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So VEI is going the way of online gambling.

Great way to make your properties kid friendly. :roll:

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I don't gamble often but when I was in Vegas last year it amazed me how many stupid-*SQUEE* types of slot machines there were. I would probably drop a few bucks in a Valiant slot. Maybe $10 tops.

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jedimarley wrote:So VEI is going the way of online gambling.

Great way to make your properties kid friendly. :roll:
To be fair, it's not like any of the titles are really aimed at kids. The targeted audience tends older when your default is multi-issue arcs.
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jedimarley wrote:So VEI is going the way of online gambling.

Great way to make your properties kid friendly. :roll:
Because titles like Bloodshot are so kid friendly with their covers? :?
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Somebody drew a bunch of dicks in the textbooks at our local middle school and all the kids still seem to learn math.

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did you know there are Phantom machines? I saw them when I was at con with my brother.

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depluto wrote:Somebody drew a bunch of dicks in the textbooks at our local middle school and all the kids still seem to learn math.
At the very least, they learned how to count dicks.
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kjjohanson wrote:
depluto wrote:Somebody drew a bunch of dicks in the textbooks at our local middle school and all the kids still seem to learn math.
At the very least, they learned how to count dicks.
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Aram wrote:
jedimarley wrote:So VEI is going the way of online gambling.

Great way to make your properties kid friendly. :roll:
Because titles like Bloodshot are so kid friendly with their covers? :?
wait. what age are we talking here? when i was a kid the more violent the better! I remember buying an issue of eternal warrior from a 10cent bin because the idea of a guy fighting an eternal war was so cool.

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I was thinking that perhaps these are computer-based casino games to be played at home. But if not, I can see a lot of really confused gamblers wondering who the heck these characters are.


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