I would not pay 2 bucks a play, just because Stern upped the price, and knowing that owner will take a 20k play game and turn around and sell it for nib price. Cry me a river on that but I'll take the beer and play my games at home.

I wish we still lived in usual times. Here is a game with 15k plays, cost 200 less than my most recent nib.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-jurassic-park-pro-71

By all means, increase your price to $2 and see what happens. I honestly doubt the casual player will drop that... just my opinion.

I'll consider myself lucky for the time being, with great NC breweries and LEs on location 3 plays/$2, 1 play/$1.

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Is this a real number for ops? 50 bucks a week per game? I'd be surprised if the games at my location did not pull in at least 50 per day, the place is always bumping. Perhaps this is the problem, you need to put your games in a more popular spot.

If someone is desperate enough to pay 8 bucks for crap beer they are likely enough to pay 2 bucks for a game of pinball. We can get killer beers for 5 bucks. Just because some are happy enough to get f'd in the a doesn't make it right for everyone.

I've been happy to have owned a few pros, but if I were to buy Godzilla it seems like too much missing from the premium.

Lots of big baller money spending folks on here who regularly buy LEs and premiums. I'm not certain these are the same people complaining about ushering in $2/play as the new normal. I started my pinball adventure low and slow, returning games back into the community in a better condition than I found them. At this time I am not comfortable paying 9k for a premium, I simply cannot afford that.

I'm not incredibly wealthy, and I'm not a terribly great player so half of my games are over rather quickly. I might play one or two games at an inflated price, but overall I would spend less money at that bar on games/food/drink.

I guess an op will have to decide... cater to the hardcore player who have in above posts been admitted to not to be the bread & butter, or cater to the casual people who spend the most $$ on your game. 3 ballers can always opt to drain ball 1 without penalizing the casual player.

Based on your pricing structure I'd be filling your coin box.

Can't say that makes me give a shit if your biz succeeds or fails. Kind of curious who buys the most pins nowadays ops or homeowners, and how that plays into future Stern pricing.

Because I wish to believe pinball is more than just making a dollar and a cent. Some rando should not control pinball.
If ops don't care about us, why should we care about them.

Ops here crying they don't make 20 bucks a week. Oh no, some player actually uses the machine and potentially turns on other people watching them play. You're talking as if we are some detriment to your business.

LTG my comments are not directed at you. I've seen you helping many many people here.

I'm saying other ops may need to tone the capitalism thing down a bit and realize home enthusiasts are keeping pinball alive at this point. You can still make money and not insult the community.

It's possible you are correct, and if so that's not my intention. In my job I work with large and small customers. I don't make statements that would make the smaller customer feel as if they are less important. I don't know if that translates here? I don't let on they are not my target audience.

So no, I won't generally support a business that I feel insults me as a customer.

I don't know who's talking about 25 cents but it's not me. I'm square with a buck a play.

Exactly. You did not see me once in this thread complain about a dollar per play. Someone else perhaps.

Right so any of us bunch who doesn't cough up 2 bucks a play and the death of pinball is all on us. Got it.

I can understand that. Sorry for my misinterpretation and jackass post. It was uncalled for.