Yeah I don’t think that would be the case at all. Maybe it pushed stern to get to LCD screens sooner, but that’s about it.

I got into pinball ownership along with lots of others shortly after WOZ came out, but I think it’s more to do with the resurgence of location pinball, and the generation that was raised by the golden age of pinball generation, getting pinball buying money.

You still never see JJPs on location ten plus years later. The increased demand put more money into sterns pockets, increasing budgets and the end product we see now is the result of that.

We got all those stripped down games because there was simply no money to get anything better. Stern would’ve folded long ago.

The multiballs. Heyo!!!!!

Yes. You’ve flown off the handle this whole thread. It’s only pinball.

Then don’t.

If you’re that unhappy with your experience, sell the game and move on.

We’ve seen them for months.

Please stop shouting.

My friend doesn’t stream and he has had bowed playfields replaced. I know of one, and maybe a second that he has had over the years.

Eh. Although I eventually got the help/parts I needed, she was very unresponsive via email. Took many follow ups and copying lots of people on each email to finally get resolution.

Walking dead
Iron Man
Mustang
Star Trek
Metallica
Xmen
AC/DC
Tron
Transformers
LOTR
Batman Dark Knight
Wheel of fortune
Spider-Man
Family Guy
Pirates of the Caribbean
NASCAR
Sopranos
World Poker Tour
Terminator 3
Simpsons pinball party
Elvis
Ripleys

All of these are great games.

They use a different playfield vendor. Bader.

Interesting. Didn’t know that. Now tell that vendor to tool up to increase capacity to do all the playfields for every manufacturer. Haha

Question is, why did you get a playfield and many others did not? Was it a GNR?

Yeah seems once they had a lot more issues with GNR, they decided to stop the replacement playfields. Sucks big time. Hell in some cases they didn’t even offer washer kits.

Hopefully they pull a 180 on all this stuff soon and improve their materials at the same time.

The cabinet issues had nothing to do with brackets. Those brackets don’t hold the cabinet together. Proper construction of the joints and glue does. Look at all the thousands of games that came before GB that didn’t have this issue, and didn’t use the WPC brackets.

They simply got a bad batch of cabinets from their vendor.

Don’t care care of your game and they all will look like that. That ball might as well be sandpaper.

Oh geez. Didn’t even see all that wear at first on the spinner. Whoa baby.

You set and forget anything and it will be a mess eventually.

You down with JPP? Yeah you know me!!

I thought it had to do with making those certifications they have to get easier? I’m sure that’s cheaper, but also would eliminate some possible delays in the production process and allow games to get out faster.

Just like the lock down bar clamps. WAY better design.

Alexa, let’s play pinball.

Embrace the minivan my friend. Embrace the minivan. Haha

See the post above about Gomez sighting exactly what I said. If you think he’s lying, fair, but I believe the change was made to relieve a rather large annoyance in the game making process.

That’s where I’m right with ya. Metal aprons are so nice. Glad my STH LE and GOT Prem have them.

My AC/DC vault premium was plastic.

Still get the Lazarus bounce with the metal ones plenty.

Listened to the podcast too. Holy moly.

Same. That and their games are just too expensive. GNR standard started in my range, but the 1k increase was so stupid.

Haha. $800