What Does This Mean For Us

[aslan]

The Rio needs an enema, in the worst way. I've given up on the place, except for an occasional buffet. I can't believe it has fallen so low. Management can't even change a burned out bulb in the marquee or paint the exterior of the lobby.

But they did do a nice job of renovating rooms, and they do boast some of the largest rooms available. Did something happen to their ceiling show? I stayed there a few days last year and never saw it--maybe just poor timing.

 

[shadroch]

Their sky show is only a few days a week, Thursday to Sat, I believe. It's also gotten very risque.Not a show for families.

 

[Seaclusion]

where in NM do u go to get the free $140 for signing up?

Buffallo Thunder and Cities of Gold in Santa Fe

 

[Automatic Monkey]

Both Vegas and AC have been doing this for several years now and it hasn't worked. Each year revenues drop even further. You would think at some point someone would wake up and try a different approach.

They won't. The decisions are made by people who aren't worried about the loss in revenue as much as being personally blamed for the loss in revenue, and making the games worse for the players looks good on paper when you are presenting it to a room full of people who don't know anything about gaming. This is what happens when you have casinos, an industry that relies on appealing to base instincts, run by MBA's instead of gangsters with cigars. Nobody understands base instincts like gangsters.

If they give us better games, it'll be an accident.

 

[aslan]

They won't. The decisions are made by people who aren't worried about the loss in revenue as much as being personally blamed for the loss in revenue, and making the games worse for the players looks good on paper when you are presenting it to a room full of people who don't know anything about gaming. This is what happens when you have casinos, an industry that relies on appealing to base instincts, run by MBA's instead of gangsters with cigars. Nobody understands base instincts like gangsters.

If they give us better games, it'll be an accident.

In any business, whenever you have the bean counters calling the shots, you have idiotic decision making, since they do not understand business or what motivates customers, only the bottom line. Their solution to everything is cut costs and/or raise prices. Unfortunately, these are often the worst possible things to do, oftentimes cutting your customer base along with cutting costs and raising prices. Give me a people person every time when it comes to running big corporations. Numbers are just numbers, but people make them rise and fall.