Inside Asian Gaming

IAG APR 2022年4月 亞博匯 32 COVER STORY that required a commitment to conversion later on, because it takes time to put a conversion on the floor or to put a new machine in,” Jolly explained. They would want to go forward with version 2.0 straight away, so we very quickly got into action in our own R&D house, got to understand the new specs will come down to their internal capex cycles – replacing games inevitably comes at a cost – while also factoring in how games are performing in the here and now. For example, phasing out underperforming games as part of the 40% requirement by the end of 2023 is a relatively easy transition, but older games and did the first new game on the Kascada cabinet, which is ‘Carnival Cow’. It didn’t make any sense to launch it under the previous version.” For the operators themselves, the challenge of 2.0 is the planning. Phasing older games out and replacing them with newer, compliant models 「金吉報喜」系列遊戲過審。這些遊戲 將用於 澳門安裝的Dualos和DualosX機 櫃上。 Jolly解釋稱：「由於之後還需要花 時間進行升級或者安裝新機器，客戶可 能不希望再要1.1版本及需要再升級的產 品。」 「他們想直接使用2.0版本，所以我 們很快就在研發中心採取了行動，了解新 規格，並在Kascada機櫃上製作了第一款 新遊戲，即『金牛納福』。按照以前的版 本發行遊戲已經沒有任何意義。」 對於運營商自身來說，2.0版本的挑 戰在於規劃。淘汰舊遊戲，抑或者用更 新的、兼容的模式來取代，一切都取決 於內部資本支出週期，因為更新遊戲不 可避免需要付出成本，且同時還要考慮 遊戲在此時此刻的表現如何，其中逐步 淘汰表現欠佳的遊戲將是一個相對容易 的過渡，但表現良好的老遊戲可能會繼 續留在市場上營運至2024年的最終日期 來臨。