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Can I legally charge people to play video gaming systems in my game shop?
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Read More Answered By: Nancy Delain |
If you have a license from the games manufacturer to run your shop as an arcade, you can legally charge folks for playing the games in your shop. Otherwise, no.
Isn't there a high-tech way to keep people from monopolizing the game stations too long? If not, you might try developing and installing a timer app that requires the user to sign in with a unique ID that a human being store employee provides to him/her before s/he can start any game; that app might then time the game out 5-10 minutes later. The user must purchase the game to unlock the timer.
While you can't break into the source or object code of the game itself, your gaming station or console might be programmed to override and time out the game, right? (I'm not a programmer ...)
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