All I can say reading through the comments is there are a lot of very spoiled pinball players in here.

There will come a time (and I feel it’s coming soon) where ops will be priced out of new pins (for some I know it’s already happened). Just not that long ago pinball was on its death bed and people where begging for anywhere to be able to go play, now they want the latest and greatest but refuse to pay anything more then a $1.

I’ve been talking to a lot of local businesses in my area and everyone is raising prices to keep up with costs of goods going up. Why should operators be any different? Operators should do the same as they see fit/needed.

My question to the people who say they won’t pay $1.50, they will just leave and go to another location, what would you do if all the ops did it together and everyone raised their prices at once? Would you just stop playing location pinball all together?

I guess I just don’t understand, people bitch when there is no pinball to be played and they bitch when there is pinball to be played but the cost per play goes up?

Okay having older machines for cheaper is understandable and I’m all for that, the question at hand was will ops be charging $1.50 per play for Godzilla (the newest machine) so I took the comments in this thread of I’m not paying more then $1 per play to mean they won’t play Godzilla for $1.50.

Which takes us back to, if people aren’t paying to play the new stuff, means ops stop buying it, means stern sells less games (I know right now they are hotter then ever) but it starts a snowball effect of taking location pinball back to the dark times of not long ago which I don’t think anyone wants.

Also when an op comes on hard times (low collection months) and have to sell games to make it by, what machines go first? The ones they can sell for the most the fastest, which means if your op is sitting on a bunch of older pins that are paid off but worth the prices games are going for in today’s market, bye bye pinball. Not saying this is going to happen, but for the seasoned ops out there like LTG these words are all too true. Again a snowball effect can happen fast sometimes and with today’s economy and what’s going on across the US it’s very possible.