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"All-Access Connected" Stern Monthly Fee For Some Online Features

By SantaEatsCheese

2 years ago


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    #123 2 years ago
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    There’s all kinds of potential for crap. Game on route and don’t want to pay monthly fees? Stern could allow you to opt in to a program that sells advertising space on the LCD screen. Would they do this? If it’s profitable then yeah probably. Everything you hate about every online platform is an option on your pinball machine now. Unfortunately.
    The side discussion about security is sort of silly. Most of us have so many IOT devices in our homes, your pinball machine is the least of your concerns. Common devices like home security cameras, HVAC controls, and video doorbells that are in millions of homes are a much more attractive and more lucrative use of a hackers time than a pinball machine. That said, I certainly wouldn’t trust Stern to secure their games 100%. With all this connected junk nowadays, the only way to be secure is to be unplugged.

    ads on my home machine might be cool.
    Some od the Data East games had ads for upcoming titles and Williams had a message about Hiv. Don't for the Don't do drugs ads on games.

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