Winner!
Pinball will become more exclusive than it already is. Prices will go up to make up for the lack of numbers.
I will share when prices will go down,
An EMP weapon destroys the power grid, or hackers, or astroids, or weather.
The dollar crashes to worthless.
The US is taken over by China (its well known China doesn't like pinball despite Homepins efforts)
The Sun goes out.

I just learned we are indeed at the peak of pinball pricing.
Premium-priced pins are beginning to languish on Sale Sites.
Buyers refusing to pay "Firm" prices and intense haggling is getting prevalent.
Loyal NIB Buyers have reached a point of rebellion over bad quality, poor customer service and now spending this money on other more fulfilling endeavors.
This anger is spreading in to an outright revolt through peer pressure.
New releases will become fewer and farther between after this year.
More scams occurring to obtain machines. This trend will blow up in to a full-scale crime wave.
Gary Stern is retiring,and new "Woke" Titles released after his leaving will meet financial disaster. Complaints about past Titles will facilitate removal from commercial establishments leading to a glut hitting the Market.
Old time and large Collectors will see the Trend beginning and be the first to run for the exits to obtain premium prices for their holdings before the house of cards fall.
This will fail when the Market sees just how many machines are out there,piled up. Prices will go down and down till Premiums will be offered to Buyers just to move unwanted inventory.
B and C Titles will be parted out to recoup some value with many unwanted, unsellable Titles hitting the dumpster, being made into coffee tables,clocks, paneling for bars.
The majority of after-market parts sellers will diversify and survive doing other things.
Pinball machines will take on the persona of unwanted, undesirable relics from an unpopular past and be associated with undesirable type-people. Artwork depicting scantily clad girls and homespun Westerns will be the first to go. Satanic Themed pins will remain in demand for decoration even if non-working.
Thats it Folks, beginning of the end. Hate to be the bearer of bad news.

No.

Sorry, I will have to see some credentials on what makes you an expert, or authority on this subject. Otherwise, just another opinion, like my opinion.
No reason to listen to you,or me.

Who made that rule? I don't follow rules from Rando internet users

I question it. Who are you? Why do you feel your opinion is any more worthy than anyone else? Do you always try and speak with authority to others? Where does this authority come from,besides your own mind?
I wrote a satirical thought-provoking diatribe based on nothing for entertainment purposes. Do you feel you have to come to the defense of someone, or are you legal counsel for Stern?

Satire contains some truth. It wasn't a joke. Satire reflects on truth, exposes truth.
Satire is a legal way to tell truth these days. It's come to that because so many people get triggered.

Great, got the down vote weenies out today. People who have nothing thought provoking to say, nothing to say really. Everyday they wander aimlessly on pinside and look for opportunities to passively express themselves and where they stand by...downvoting.
I wish some of them would speak, say anything.
No, they are scared of saying anything real. You can count on them though ganging up with there measly down vote as if it means anything.
As I understand it youtube is doing away with the down vote, they say spineless bots trying to push a narrative are misusing it.
I wonder what would happen if pinside did away with it? Would we hear from these scooby do weenies,finally?

These buzz words triggered you and your silent posse just fine, thats all you have concentrated on today, they live rent free in your head.
Meanwhile wait awhile, the rest of my Post will come true before you know it, a case of predictive satire.

I understand satanic rat. Unlike the new generation of wannabe idiots looking for acceptance. Ask them if they believe in God, "hell no, I'm an atheist"
So do they know where satan came from? How can you accept one but deny the existence of the other?
So yeah they got the tats and the hand signs and the blood and shirts and hair and rituals cause they are cool. All old stuff,very old for a crowd that wants to break free from the past.
Same old tiring crap, and none of it is funny.
Only they are too stupid to come up with anything new.
They compare everything to hitler, it isn't shocking anymore.
They look satanic, who cares? Everybody is doing it.
Come up with another way to shock everybody and be cool.