Random question - Computer game licensing in a internet cafe

agnes · 2 Mar 2014 at 17:38

How does this work?

Say I have 10 stations, each with a paid for BF4 and COD license.

I charge the customer £5 per hour to play on that station. How does licensing work? Will I be breaking some contract or something under the T&C's?

Thanks

agnes · 2 Mar 2014 at 18:05

Cool link! Thanks.

Now, what about consoles and the games for those?

agnes · 2 Mar 2014 at 18:25

nick.lidgett said:
We had a gaming/LAN/cafe/shop in Lewisham when i was growing up, it crashed and burned pretty quickly. Would be cool to see then make a come back but i cant see a market for it, only the unprivilaged scrotes could make use of them i feel.

There are always swarms of little kids in Reading town centre on the weekend. I'm just wondering if it's worth tapping into that CoD type gaming community and like you say, bringing back the gaming cafe a little.

agnes · 2 Mar 2014 at 18:44

Efour said:
I think what with everyone having access to a gaming PC or console and High speed internet this business model is pretty much completely and utterly sunk.

If you can get it to work then ! good work

That side is a valid point, but my argument would be the community aspect of it. As I said, there are kids in Reading that just wonder around, I'm under the thought that having little tournaments or areas they can all be in the same room and have a crack at it for a bit might be appealing.

This Sat I will hopefully get some time in Reading and ask randoms a few questions.

How much would they pay for 30 mins or 1 hour of gaming time? Would they want such a venue and would they use it? What kind of tournaments would they want?

Hoping to get some very basic feedback.

agnes · 2 Mar 2014 at 18:56

RDM said:
You probably want to work out how much it will cost you to offer that hours gaming, rent, staffing costs, insurance, equipment etc. Then you can see the minimum you can charge to still make a profit and how much that profit will be.

This is a silly idea that sparked today, kind of want to see if there is even a market for it anymore before doing that amount of research. Hence the idea of doing a face to face mini survey in town first.

I hope there is something there for it. As it could be good. Something the 90's kids didn't really have.