R. I. P Easy free drinks.

Your slot play will now determine if you get a free drink or not.

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Guess I'll filling this bad boy up with stuff from the liquor store on my next trip before I hit the casinos every day.

Mgm is leading the charge on nickel and diming customers. I'll be avoiding spending any money at their properties ....I just hope the other companies don't follow suit

This story isn't completely new. We had something on the Mirage testing this system in the past. Both bartenders and waitresses don't like it. Count me in with PJ. I'm going to do everything I can, unless I'm invited to a wedding or something like that, to avoid MGM properties.

The plus side is those of us who play will be able to get our drinks faster as the waitress wont be dealing with free loaders. I'm sorry but am I really supposed to feel bad any business isn't giving free drinks to folks that dont play enough?

Well that depends on how much you have to put through a machine to earn one drink.

I saw a previous report and the points earned per drink sounded very reasonable. In fact at a rate that is faster than I consume typically.

And I say that as a person who has faked slow play in high limits area abusing them for free Johnny Walker Blue, Far Niente Chardonnay and Silver Oak Cabernet with nothing to show for it. So I understand where they are coming from.

All this rhetoric does is create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What if they had a war/riot/protest and nobody showed up?

One casino starts something, everybody hollers to the high heavens about it, and in no time at all it spreads everywhere because the casinos figure [and rightly so] that it is expected and there won't be a thing anybody can do about it.

Like billryan I play plenty and earn all the drinks three people can handle.
Sounds like right now it is at the bars and the books, which isn't real new.
If everyone would SHUT UP about it, maybe it won't spread to the casino floor so fast.

Go back to the original purpose for comped drinks...so we will keep playing and potentially lose money and fatten their pockets. Then came the glory days of everybody getting comped for little or no play. Now the big guys are saying "oops times have changed and we've got to halt the gravy trains." Bound to happen.

MGM (and almost any casino) doesn't lose money from comped drinks to players...and that's taking into account the fact that some players play 1 penny/spin just to get those drinks.

I'm sure my level of play will qualify me for my gin-n-tonics- but the fact that management is abandoning the social contract between players and the casino is a big problem for me. Its not good enough for them that the games already guarantee them a hefty profit.....they have to tighten the table rules, charge for parking, charge for wifi, and now tighten up the drink policy.

These are the actions of a company that is not putting customers first anymore. Its also the actions of a company with no creativity at the top. The only growth strategy they've come up with is to charge money for things that used to be free. They continue to push the limits to see what they can get away with and it wont stop if people keep rewarding them with their business.

If you're sick of 6/5 blackjack, resort fees, and parking charges you better start boycotting the properties that implement them. Sooner or later they'll get around to charging you for something you do care about...maybe to take a pis in their lavatories.

I disagree. In this case it's a matter of not giving away free shit to people who abuse it. I don't know about Nevada, but in AC, the state collects sales tax on every free drink, so you have salaries, glassware, ice, fruit , liquor , sales tax and cleanup for each free drink that you somehow think doesn't cost the house anything.

This is Las Vegas, not AC, not Detroit, and not other casinos who charge for drinks. Drinks were charged for at one time in LV. Competing casinos kept on lowering the prices down to the point where Benny Binion charged nothing and other hotels joined in. This is why we should all embrace competition and not enjoy two companies owning 80% of the major hotels on the strip.

With getting ripped off for resort fees, hotel taxes, high costs of items in the gift stores, etc. I hardly give a crap that MGM isn't getting their fair share for a drink.