@EverythingAmiibo No offence to Max-xp but it's not exactly a proper cafe now is it? It's more akin to a stoners living room. Geek Retreat caters more towards the board game and comic crowd, if you don't play Magic or Yu Gi Oh you're out of place. Hosting the odd DS night doesn't make it a gaming cafe. These two places are entirely different. Neither of them offer all that Megabytes do.
Despite your reservations about it not being something new it IS in fact doing something that the others aren't. And that's having a heavy focus on gaming with it's many consoles and arcade machines whilst also being in a proper cafe setting. Can you honestly tell me that Max-xp looks as good and professional as this? I wish them all the best with their business but it's not somewhere I would go.
If you want to talk about copying then lets point to the fact that Megabytes was in conception LONG before Max-xp opened. Their Indiegogo was up and running by at least mid last year, they were officially registered as a business in April 2014 and had already acquired arcade machines a month or two prior to that. It's perfectly conceivable that two groups of people can have the same idea of opening a haven for geeks. Plenty other places exist elsewhere that do the same. Megabytes even had to contend with copycats literally copying their indiegogo campaign word for word.
You talk about being a big part of the geek scene. Well Megabytes is also a business that has been crowdfunded by that geek scene. It has a LOT of support. Maybe you should not be so quick to dismiss it with elitist behaviour. Why so intent on dividing geek culture? Do we seriously already have fanboy'ism in gaming cafes now?!
Play games, be happy, rejoice with your fellow nerds. Peace and gaming.
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Re: MEGABytes to Blend a Cafe and Arcade Together in Glasgow
@EverythingAmiibo No offence to Max-xp but it's not exactly a proper cafe now is it? It's more akin to a stoners living room. Geek Retreat caters more towards the board game and comic crowd, if you don't play Magic or Yu Gi Oh you're out of place. Hosting the odd DS night doesn't make it a gaming cafe. These two places are entirely different. Neither of them offer all that Megabytes do.
Despite your reservations about it not being something new it IS in fact doing something that the others aren't. And that's having a heavy focus on gaming with it's many consoles and arcade machines whilst also being in a proper cafe setting. Can you honestly tell me that Max-xp looks as good and professional as this? I wish them all the best with their business but it's not somewhere I would go.
If you want to talk about copying then lets point to the fact that Megabytes was in conception LONG before Max-xp opened. Their Indiegogo was up and running by at least mid last year, they were officially registered as a business in April 2014 and had already acquired arcade machines a month or two prior to that. It's perfectly conceivable that two groups of people can have the same idea of opening a haven for geeks. Plenty other places exist elsewhere that do the same. Megabytes even had to contend with copycats literally copying their indiegogo campaign word for word.
You talk about being a big part of the geek scene. Well Megabytes is also a business that has been crowdfunded by that geek scene. It has a LOT of support. Maybe you should not be so quick to dismiss it with elitist behaviour. Why so intent on dividing geek culture? Do we seriously already have fanboy'ism in gaming cafes now?!
Play games, be happy, rejoice with your fellow nerds. Peace and gaming.