I’ve read several times in interviews and articles by casino folks that the cost of moving their slot floor to G2S seems overly daunting, complicated and expensive for the return on investment. While their concerns are understandable in light of the old paradigm, the beauty of G2S is that it isn’t an “all or nothing” […]
G2S: How to get there from here
If you haven’t already, you’ll soon have to start making decisions about adding G2S to your world—measuring its potential against other capital improvements and making sure that the decisions you make will give your property excellent positioning in the years to come. – Russ Ristine, G2S: How to Get There from Here In this month’s […]
The practical benefits of a G2S networked gaming floor
Now that G2S-based technologies are hitting the market, we are frequently asked to explain the benefits of a G2S gaming floor network. Before you can understand the potential benefits, you must understand that G2S is just the enabler: High-speed, open, Internet-style communications just won’t work on the SAS-based gaming floor of today, so we need […]
WMS moves toward the future
Has anyone seen the WMS Player’s Life site? Players of the new Lord of the Rings™ game can now extend their gaming experience outside the casino by logging on (by computer or mobile phone) to playerslife.com, a website that lets EGM players play “casual games” for bonus points. They can then use those bonus points on the casino […]
The proprietary slot floor: pros and cons
Do we move to an open-standard, high-speed network or stay with the current proprietary network we’ve got? That is the question being discussed by casino operators worldwide. To facilitate the discussion, it may be useful to step back and take a look at some of the pros and cons of the typical slot floor network […]