Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?

• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sure, but you also aren’t paying super close attention to the DDR cab either if you’re in line. You’re looking at things around the arcade and maybe pacing around a bit so that you aren’t just hovering over the other people playing.

  Not only that, but losing a toonie is absolutely not the same as losing $50 on a card.

  Also, where were you that the machine took toonies? Every arcade I’ve been in was loonies until they switched to the cards.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The other 6 people in line keep an eye too, you can look away for a little bit, but you also use a blank card so nothing is lost.

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How’s the person supposed to know there is even anything on the card…?

    $2 is a lot more attractive than a empty piece of plastic mate.

    Lots of machines take up to 5 coins, air hockey has always been $2-3.

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    • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How’s the person supposed to know there is even anything on the card…?

      Because it's an arcade and loading funds is what people do with those cards. Also, those cards are generally accountless, and not tied to any sort of identifying information, so snatching one up and pocketing it is trivial and nobody would give you a second look if you tried using it on another machine.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If my card was taken, which would be empty, I would go seek management and they would use the cameras to fine the person instantly the only realistic end is the person gets caught with a blank card, gets banned and likely get police involved.

        This is a wonderfully fake situation that’s easily dealt with to get mad at though lmfao.

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People use blank cards for this purpose all the time, and if there’s enough people to justify using tokens in a line. No one is gonna be able to grab a card without being noticed. So there’s a very good chance that someone is gonna be caught and get an empty card.

        Yeah… that’s mighty tempting eh?

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