I’m playing at Stained Glass Pub and there are no questions on the app. It says see tv for the question.

Now we have to be in front of a tv which isn’t always possible.

The scores are really low as 80% of the LT players are gone.

Good news is it’s very easy to be #1.

Two things about this.

1. It’ll affect players who live far from a site that used to play but now no longer will.
2. How does this affect streaming sites that have no tv and require the question, clues and answer to be on the phone?

I’m assuming at newer pad sites the question still appears on the pad thus eliminating the need for a monitor?

Yes this is a big change. I’ll call it a new era in Buzztime history.

This will strongly encourage us to actually go back to the way it probably should be.

No, that's not the way it probably should be in 2022. The way it probably should be is to have people who don't
want to play in a bar to play a subscription to do so, like they do for so many other things.

IMHO, if Buzztime is to survive (how many times have I heard that phrase over the past 20 years?), it has to find a new business model.
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This makes sense. We players are not Buzztime's customers. The "customer" is the establishment that pays for the service. While I really enjoyed being able to play during my recent Mediterranean cruise (thanks to a fake GPS app) too many people are abusing it and not financially supporting the establishment that pays the bill. [Aside: the coolest thing was answering a question about the Arno River while looking out my Florence apartment window at the Arno River!}

My trivia buddy Zebra even paid to have his home be a Buzztime site!

Can you tell me some more about this? I assume he got Buzztime Lite? How much does it actually cost him
including taxes, fees, etc.? Did they give him any problems about providing this to an individual rather than a business?

Can you tell me some more about this? I assume he got Buzztime Lite? How much does it actually cost him
including taxes, fees, etc.? Did they give him any problems about providing this to an individual rather than a business?

An Angry Pepper is the exception, not the rule, as is Florida which has by far the most sites (only Texas comes close). It is no longer technologically necessary.

Are there freeloaders who wouldn't pay no matter what? Of course, but there are also those for whom there is no convenient place to go, and I think more importantly, those who liked the convenience of playing wherever whenever and want to keep that. It's just like hybrid work; Pandora's box has been opened, and it won't be shut again. People know the old way isn't the only way.

One last thought: there are many, many activities that are not economically viable in a brick-and-mortar incarnation (just too few customers in a geographic area) that survive and thrive on the Internet. This may be one of them

I suppose Buzztime could convert to an internet only business plan, but for me the camraderie (sp?) with the other players is much of the fun. Especially when I was traveling and met many players including Bud (at Hard Times in Rockville, I recall) and SCAR and his cohorts at TGIF in Louisville (neither of which has Buzztime today). With the exception of a visit to the BWW in Salina, KS o few years back the locals were welcoming. The one player in Salina was openly hostile to my being there, even more so when I put up the first 15,000 on the local board for the month - LOL. I missed the socializing when I played on my phone.