Inside Asian Gaming

IAG APR 2022年4月 亞博匯 29 封面故事 Light & Wonder’s Dualos and DualosX, which Jolly says can and will be upgraded. It is which games will be reworked to match that remains the million- dollar question. As another supplier explained, upgrading older games to be 2.0 compliant is akin to open heart surgery. “It's effectively building a new game,” they said. “It’s like renovating a house compared with building a new house – it can often be the same effort and time. So the big decision everyone has to make is how many games to redo and at what opportunity cost, because we only have so many resources to devote to game development for the region.” Most suppliers IAG contacted regarding EGM Technical Standards 2.0 were reluctant to comment, however IGT’s 對於不舊不新的機櫃例Light& Wonder 的Dualos和DualosX等，Jolly表示可將它們 進行升級，但哪些遊戲需要被重新設計並與 之重新匹配，仍是個價格不菲的問題。 一如另一家供應商所言，將舊遊戲升 級到符合2.0版本無異於心臟手術。 「這無異於構建一個新的遊戲。」他 們表示：「這就像翻新一所房子和建造一所 房子，兩者很多時候需要同樣的精力和時 間。所以每家公司都必須做出多少遊戲需要 重做以及需要付出多少機會成本的重大決 定，因為我們僅有有限資源用於該地區的遊 戲開發。」