Thread: PC Gaming Lan Center

Thanks Alomax....somebody in another forum posted both of the same things you link here. I am assuming you all may know one another. The Q & A was very interesting indeed. I downloaded the spredshett, but it did not appear to have all of the numbers listed in each category.

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Well, my thoughts were, you're only going to have people gaming from when school/work gets out, till 10pm maybe? Even then, you may not have all those seats filled. So, at $5 per hour, with 10 computers...that's not too much income. The initial chunk of change just to buy 25 games per pc is going to be huge. Then you've got rent/electricity. The overhead is a lot. You need to think of some easy passive income other than just...

1000.00$ is a bit high for LAN PCs I contacted Dell and bought 12 Demension E521s... they had AMD 4200+ and 2 GB of RAM I upgraded the video cards to x1950 gt's at the time they were 100.00$ I used 19 inch Dell LCDs @ 1280x1024 and everything ran great I think my total cost per PC was 700.00$ that was 3-4 years ago... you probably could contact Dell and get the Vostro series with either a good Core2D(E6600) or a Core2D Quad(Q6600) with 2...

Quote: Originally Posted by TroM Why has no one mentioned security... One the more important things... You're gonna something that runs the games away from the tweakable windows environment.... Basically people should have no acces no any Windows features, ie when they sit down at a comp there is a menu of games, and you just click and play. Kind of like Source Cafe, but you're probably gonna have to buy a license for a program like...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tat3 Some cold energy drinks would be good idea to offer (are you going to accept own drinks, snacks, what would you do if someone spills Coca-Cola over PC which brokes). Put the PC's on racks above the tables. And if people spill **** on components then they pay. We're all adults and they need to accept responsibility.

Quote: Originally Posted by gridiron whirlw Maybe $5 per hour to play, the bigger block of time you buy, the cheaper it gets. Are you going to buy that place or rent ? What stuff you need to buy ? Internet connection, switches, etc, etc... ? With $5 it would be 200 hours to get PC paid, perhaps more since you are going to offer cheaper prices if they buy more hours. And that will only cover up PC. Just calculate how much you need to spent,...

What you are looking at is basically a gaming capable internet cafe. To make this work you are going to need far more than 10 pc's when you consider the cost of your overheads, setup, and how much you can reasonably charger per hour for use of a gaming pc.

I almost never drink coffee when gaming. I did on occasion during late night raids back in the day but not so much anymore. Adults with jobs may pay the large margins on a coffee drink, but younger folks are more likely to buy energy drinks I'd sell soft drinks / nachos / dip. You might also try letting people bring in drinks one day of the week as a gimmick. Let them bring their 2l's in but sell them spill resistant cups and have a...

Know your local nerds if there's a market for it then it can be successful provided you offer everything they would buy i.e games energy drinks junk food etc.. but as tight as the economy is right now I would wait for it to get stable then consider going into it.. A good way to start would be to host alot of tournaments for cash and prizes that's where you can draw in alot of local gamers in and rake in the dough once it becomes...