Maybe, maybe not, it depends on who you ask.

Some casinos make an effort to run a program, and make it work.

It takes extra effort and you are right, it does work well for some places and does attract players as well as new collectors and the old collectors.

It doesn't work at other place, so they move something else into the space that might be less effort and needs less employee attention.

I might be wrong, but I think you'll find most of the places that have success, do just what you suggested. They have someone in charge of the chip program. If they don't have that, they have someone who changes designs and makes it work.

Not only will you find changes, series and sets or $200s at the good ones, but you will find good designs as well, that attract casual collectors and other gamblers, not just collectors.

I pointed out before that in some locations McDonalds have opened and gone out of business. It seems an automatic, a no brainer, for a business. But some fail.

People have also noted that casinos go out of business. How can that happen, all they do it take money? But there are all sorts of expenses and factors involved. Same goes for strike machines.

I might add that there appear to be a limited number of strike machines that were made. So while some places had one or more and found it didn't work for them, other places have waited to get one and have made it work later.

When I went to Sierra Sids and saw it was a truck stop, and small, just a slot joint, but they had two machines and made it work, it made me wonder why a huge casino with all sorts of players couldn't. The answer is making an effort and making it work.

Ask someone else about machine jams, designs that aren't delivered on time, lack of machines, or how it takes personal to manage a strike machine.

Really simple answer. If some other machine costs less to operate and brings more profit for the space that it takes up on the casino floor, that machine will replace the Strike machine.

Part of what makes it work is the limited number of casinos that have machines and they will attract collectors. If there was a machine in every casino, people wouldn't bother as much to go out of their way to get the strikes like they do now.