I just had an interesting thought while I was browsing the VBS2 website. I live across the street from a LAN party location, and they have at least 12 computers that each must have cost around 1.5 grand. that's about 18 grand for computers alone, add the cost of networking, the sound system, and their console systems/projection equipment and you could have several Virtual Battlespace 2 machines running. If you were to cut that down to 3 or 4 machines with the program running, you could then project the game onto Large screens, and add special controls that would make one machine specifically for flight, one for motor vehicles and a couple for squad combat. Then you could charge for use of the machines. I realize that at first this wouldn't make the profits of a LAN place, but overtime you could add machines and eventually have 12 or 16 people playing if you had a large enough facility. When you consider that often times LAN places end up being focused on one game anyway, the fact that the place would be VBS2 focused wouldn't necassarily hurt business, and it would provide people the opportunity to actually get your hands on VBS2 if you can't afford to spend the money on the program (like myself). I was just wondering if anyone else had had this thought before or if anyone knows of any facilities that offer VBS2 play. Also I know that I didn't cover all of the difficulties/costs, I was just trying to state the idea and compare it to an LAN place.
