Playmania

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'goongas\' post=\'125580\' date=\'Jul 28 2006, 08:17 PM\']
One time I hit the wrong button on my cell phone by accident and hung up on them, and they did not call me back.
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Ya think?

[Timsterino]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'125375\' date=\'Jul 27 2006, 04:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'125371\' date=\'Jul 27 2006, 01:05 PM\']
Ratings don't count here--if they can get a steady stream of revenue from participants, they don't have to worry about ratings.
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Except, you'll note from their desperate vamping for ten minutes as the player queue sits empty, they don't have a steady stream of revenue.
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Actually that is a tactic they use to get more people to call. Even though the queue stays empty there are in fact people on hold waiting to play. This has happened to my wife a couple of times. She has been called back several times using the free entry system and has won several hundred dollars.

[Joe Mello]

Probably good to vamp for 10 minutes and get a decent queue than to alternate vamping and playing every 2 minutes.  Besides, they need to get the people who are too impatient to wait for the dollar values to go up.

I must say that from the part of the 2nd show that I watched to the bits and pieces I see now, I must say that they do have a solid piece of programming.  It may not be all that great, but it's solid.  I just wish that they could up the budget a little. (Has anyone won $200 cash at once yet?)  Perhaps a simulfeed with the West Coast could rack up enough funds to do so.  How hard would it be?

I'm amused tonight especially because there was a highly indirect reference to FF7.

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'125654\' date=\'Jul 30 2006, 01:33 AM\']
I'm amused tonight especially because there was a highly indirect reference to FF7.
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I am assuming you mean Final Fantasy 7? Oh the days........That was, to date, the best RPG I've ever played. I think very highly of it. Back in '97, it owned me....I should have had my mail put on hold!

Speaking of which (and sorry for veering a bit off topic), I could have sworn there was a computer game that DID come with an authorization to hold your mail, but the name escapes me...

[Patrick S]

I know it's a little late for someone else to be entering their opinion, on page 10, but since I'm new here I thought I'd just give the reason why I enjoy watching the show.  Basically, I work unconventional hours and often need to spend time during the overnight hours at home tying up some loose ends.  I just recently got GSN, but it's become a tradition for me, if it's a PlayMania night, to turn it on and have it in the background while I'm working.  Since my computer and TV are near each other, I'll just enter online for free and keep my cell phone nearby in case they call me.

It's a fun show just to have on as a supplemental thing, but not necessarily something I'd just sit and gaze excitedly at the TV for hours to watch.  Banking on this mentality may have something to do with why they air it at such a late time.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Patrick S\' post=\'126647\' date=\'Aug 8 2006, 05:30 PM\']
 I just recently got GSN, but it's become a tradition for me, if it's a PlayMania night, to turn it on and have it in the background while I'm working.  Since my computer and TV are near each other, I'll just enter online for free and keep my cell phone nearby in case they call me.[/quote]
Have you won anything yet?

[Patrick S]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'126648\' date=\'Aug 8 2006, 05:47 PM\']
Have you won anything yet?
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Nope .  Have yet to be called back.  But like I said it's just something I do sort of absent-mindedly on the side, so I don't mind.  Hopefully if I keep entering 10 times every show I'll be called eventually

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'Patrick S\' post=\'126650\' date=\'Aug 8 2006, 06:21 PM\']
Nope .  Have yet to be called back.  But like I said it's just something I do sort of absent-mindedly on the side, so I don't mind.  Hopefully if I keep entering 10 times every show I'll be called eventually.
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Good luck to ya...hope you don't rack up a huge cell bill.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'126678\' date=\'Aug 8 2006, 08:55 PM\']
Good luck to ya...hope you don't rack up a huge cell bill.
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I doubt he will, since, if you read his original post, he enters on the web site for free instead of dropping the buck for the text message.

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'126680\' date=\'Aug 9 2006, 12:12 AM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'126678\' date=\'Aug 8 2006, 08:55 PM\']
Good luck to ya...hope you don't rack up a huge cell bill.
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I doubt he will, since, if you read his original post, he enters on the web site for free instead of dropping the buck for the text message.
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Oh, duh...damn you, multitasking!

[Patrick S]

Well I just got my first call back.  It was during the "water ___" game and I totally had "water slide".  However, after they called me, there were at least five players who went on the show first.  I never even got to appear in the player's lounge.  That "Chris B" guy beat me to glory.

But knowing now that it is actually possible to get a call, I will no longer feel like I am just wasting my time in vain.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'128007\' date=\'Aug 19 2006, 02:13 AM\']
Well, I just made my seventh appearance on the show. (Fourth game, third email)
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How are you even eligible to play? Don't you have to be 18?

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'128037\' date=\'Aug 19 2006, 01:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'128007\' date=\'Aug 19 2006, 02:13 AM\']
Well, I just made my seventh appearance on the show. (Fourth game, third email)
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How are you even eligible to play? Don't you have to be 18?
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His signature says that he plays as his father.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

So, wait, is GSN not even confirming the eligibility of it's contestants anymore?

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'128007\' date=\'Aug 19 2006, 03:13 AM\']
Well, I just made my seventh appearance on the show. (Fourth game, third email) I played a Top 5 game with the category of "Top 5 Karaoke Songs". I Guessed (and was forced to sing a line from) "I Got You Babe", but was incorrect. And in case anyone is wondering, here were my other PM appearances:[/quote]
I happened to be watching then!  Shandi did a really, really bad Cher impression.

Not a bad guess, Chad.