leathel

Ok me and some friends are going to be opening a lan gaming cafe next year and wanted to get a rough idea of what kind of games people would like toplay when they went to a lan cafe with a bunch of friends/by themselves we already know to get the very popular lan games from a steam package but was wondering what else people would play.

The types of genre will probably be fps and mmorpg but we will have a console section to for sports and other console games (especially the wii)

O and also if there is a lan gaming cafe near you do you use it and how much is it per hour?

Cause in the UK we dont have many lol which was our main idea for opening a lan cafe and i havent been to many myself.

Any suggestions and games given will be very appreciated

GrandHustle

Counter Strike would be a nice choice, just because of this...

Some Chinese (I think this was in China, but not sure), played Counter Strike at an internet/gaming cafe for 16 hours straight. The owners tried kicking him out, and he ended up killing several people.

Though it is rated M, so you might wanna get some more user-age-friendly games. Though the mmorpgs would sort that out, I guess.

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Oisterboy

Get the Halo demo...it has a bunch of free maps, and its crazy good.

Or buy it, thats good too.

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NekoAdz

Offer Internet Access (general), CD/DVD Writing Burning, Printing, Photocopying and Faxing.

You will not get much Business opening a 'Lan' Cafe. Sorry to tell you this but you'd be better off doing an Internet Cafe and offering a bunch of other options would be better.

Of Course you can offer gaming, but get an Online Server to host any games you have and offer a choice of MMORPGs too like RF, WoW, Lineage II ect.

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leathel

*scared* for people who want to play long hours we will just hire admins/staff to work over night from say 10pm-10am and yeah steam is like all counterstrike and half life etc about halo we would probs just buy the newest one (3) get a few 360's and do system link up and keep people entertained with competitions etc Anyone have any information about ut3?

o wow thanks for the heads up on that we were thinking of making it a cybercafe as well since it is in the middle of the city centre so lots of business people wanting to check emails etc lots of gamers wanting to play and its also near a few universities

Manic

Make sure you've got a security protected internet connection so people don't just connect randomly. Charge a one time fee to connect to your router, and then hook them up with the password to get in. That's how most of these business are run, at least.

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CabooseNation

Place one near places where teens like to hang out, like a school or shopping mall.

As for price, it's around 2 dollars per half-hour. (Don't know what that would be in UK currency.)


If you do open up, I wish you the best of luck. The internet-cafe business is very location oriented.

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firesnowball

I was in a airport and it was $10/hour, So mabey arround $5/hour?

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Deimos

what the hell? source on that story please.

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hksmrchan

Ok, if your opening a pc cafe, id put these games in

games:
CS:S
CS:1.6
Maplestory <--this will attract alot of customers, because of maplestorys huge community, put a big sign in your window ;p
WoW
FFXI
WC3
Starcraft 2
Guild wars

programs:
AIM
YIM
MSN
Vent/teamspeak
Internet explorer lol

the internet cafe near me charges umm.. i think 2 or 3 dollars a hour, but cheap if you buy more hours at once, like..
1 hour: 3$
2 hours: 5$
etc... and dont forget drinks..and food?