Slots be gone in European Platinum

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Title says it all. They do not work anymore but the prizes are still there. :banghead:
 
I haven't reached Veilstone yet, and the news disturbs me. How am I going to get my TM 64 now?

Why would they remove them?
 
Wow, that's retarded. Here I was thinking that American parents would be the ones to remove them first.
 
Interesting, they didn't replace them in Australia.....

Still, my TM64 will probably sit unused for a long time.
 
have a look at the front cover of the game packaging and look at its rating. I have the Australian which was (like all pokemon games) released around the same time as the european version, but im fairly sure that it(the australian version) is the same as the US version, and the rating is PG for mild gambling references. I havent tried the slots but considering this rating id have to assume that they work. Anyway as to why they wouldnt include them the UK (or Europe) may have had legislation changes recently regarding gambling in games (particularly ones that are played by children as well as adults). I dont really know - im just taking a stab in the dark :p
 
Hmm, just gonna go and check this myself.

Edit: Now that's just plain unfair. I certainly hope it wasn't solely because of a single European country because I think my opinion of them would diminish xD Hopefully it's not the Uks fault...

Also H-con, your probably going to have to save a lot of money.

Also this really pisses me off. Selecting a game machine gives you a mere 20 coins. That is not enough to compensate.
 
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Jeez, I'm really glad I snatched up my US copy of Platinum when I did. This royally reeks. The slots in DPPt are the most fun slots in Pokemon history, it's unfair that people with a European copy can't play those anymore.
 
Wait........why do they take them out for in our version? The slots are great in DPPt.
 
At least they found a way to get coins so it's possible to get prizes.

PAL region slot machine said:
It's a Game Machine!

On certain machines every day
Found [5 to 20] Coins!

[PLAYER] put the Coins away in
the Coin Case.
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Granted, it would take a million billion years to get enough coins for the available prizes, and TM 64 (The explosion TM) is now made almost impossible to get.

TTEchidna said:
Wow, that's retarded. Here I was thinking that American parents would be the ones to remove them first.
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Where is Vegas, the most famous casino city, located? Not to mention all the Native American-run casinos all over the US and Canada...

North Americans don't really have a major problem with gambling.
 
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PDL said:
Where is Vegas, the most famous casino city, located? Not to mention all the Native American-run casinos all over the US and Canada...

North Americans don't really have a major problem with gambling.
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Actually given the first sentence quoted, it would seem as if the opposite were true...
 
Wow, this must stink. Now there's tons of TMs Europeans can't get easily. This is SOOOOOOOOO unfair. It'll take FOREVER just to get cheap items you could otherwise get in one day!
 
...Wait, so how do you get TM64? Is it buyable now or something?
 
LOL. This really killed me. It's so freakin' retarded. xD

Now I wonder if that'll be a "tradition" in European Version from now. If the Casino Games are gone from HGSS, it will be terribly retarded.

Tina said:
...Wait, so how do you get TM64? Is it buyable now or something?
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You just have to be VERY rich and buy 20000 coins.
 
hugh, I just reached veilstone and thus the game corner. It sucks I can't play, +point for D/P in comparison with platinum :/ Ah well, I can still play my diamond to get explosion and lot's of coin and fun. I really didn't expect this from the EU version.
 
You can still get coins from the machines - you just can't play them.

Interacting with all the vacant machines gives you between 5-20 coins on most of them. And you can do this once every day.

Personally, considering I sucked at the slots and managed to get 90 coins in a minute just checking all the machines, I'd say we're better off for getting the coins to afford the prizes.

Doesn't mean it's any less of a gyp to be removing any content from the game for our version though. I'd assume that the EU has passed some nonsense gambling-related law in the past year to have effected it.
 
I get the impression reading GamePolitics that Europe (Germany in particular) is increasingly using video games as a scapegoat for the youth's social ills.. I wonder if NoE did this to reduce any chances of negative PR for Pokemon.
 
I wanna know though. They call them game machines. What if this would be used as a scapegoat that children will start scraping arcades for money. I seriously cannot see any good coming from this.
 
Nekusagi said:
I get the impression reading GamePolitics that Europe (Germany in particular) is increasingly using video games as a scapegoat for the youth's social ills.. I wonder if NoE did this to reduce any chances of negative PR for Pokemon.
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America has been doing exactly the same, though. And while the Germans are certainly more censor-happy with games, Americans are much more lawsuit-happy.

One would have thought Nintendo would puss-out at the risk of losing money before pussing out at a possible PR ruckus that wouldn't actually have that much of an effect on a series that's remained incessantly popular across the world for well over 10 years.

It certainly isn't a PEGI thing, Diamond and Pearl had the exact same Game Corner as the US/Japan Platinum and has the exact same rating as Platinum.
 
Mitchman Is said:
I wanna know though. They call them game machines. What if this would be used as a scapegoat that children will start scraping arcades for money. I seriously cannot see any good coming from this.
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Checking coin return slots at arcades is hardly viewed as a social ill like gambling.

Doctor Oak said:
America has been doing exactly the same, though. And while the Germans are certainly more censor-happy with games, Americans are much more lawsuit-happy.

One would have thought Nintendo would puss-out at the risk of losing money before pussing out at a possible PR ruckus that wouldn't actually have that much of an effect on a series that's remained incessantly popular across the world for well over 10 years.
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As pointed out earlier in this thread, Americans aren't really bothered by gambling all that much as they are violence/sex (though to be fair, they HAVE changed the Gamblers trainer class to Gamers and PIs). Though not being European myself, I can't tell what Europe's attitude towards gambling is.

EDIT: Serebii told me in IRC that while the UK doesn't really care much about gambling, it's a big deal in places like Germany. So my theory may be correct.
 
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