Quoted from CrazyLevi:I just cut and paste it now, and add a fresh one every year.
Gotta keep doing it, until the bubble bursts or the bubble thread bubble bursts.
It is fun to read 20 year old threads where people are whining about $4,000 MMs and how the madness will be collapsing any day now, "just like the Juke box hobby. And also cars. Always, always always fucking cars."
Bubble is different from the question of can the industry support this many players: Homepin, Spooky, PB, CGC, P3, American, JJP, Stern, Hagis, Dutch. I think the answer is no. We will see attrition as we have before in this and the gaming industry as a whole. But I’d be a fool to try to predict when. Bubble won’t burst, price increases will just stabilize and industry will contract to the volume that can be pushed at that new price. As an operator I get one pin, that’s it, out of this round. I stand in awe of those operators who just keep adding on new pins, and keep wondering how they make the economics work. Because I sure can’t.
Even putting my business hat to the side and wearing my pinball enthusiast patron hat, I can’t see how the hell anyone affords this. And I say that knowing I make a pretty damn decent income as a surgeon. All I can say on that front is people seem to have way more disposable income than I am willing to part with.
