The clock already started running on the warranty when they announced the 5 days of deeproot.
If people actually take delivery of deeproot games they'll have only a couple months of warranty left.

And at least it's a guitargument and not a cargument.

Name dropper.

But what counts in warranties is how well the clear is covered.

But how do you like its touchscreen?

So is this how deeproot intends to reduce cost and yet provide a ten year warranty on playfields?

You can afford NIB games from all three manufacturers? You are a lucky duck!

It sounds like he wants you to post more here on Pinside.

So you're expecting the replacement playfield to be a chip off the old block?

We could start a POOL and see who gets in the most CHIP shots.

GamerRick's been on Pinside for 1 year and has 6 really nice pins, while iceman has been on Pinside 8 years and has 19 great pins.
Based on that I'd have to side with iceman. (Although if Rick adds six NIB pins every year he could even things up pretty quick.)

I don't use emojis and I never will. I usually trust people can catch the implied humor. Apparently not this time.
Guess you gentlemen haven't read many of my posts (mostly attempts at humor or sarcasm).
Then again, my wife tells me I'm not as funny as I think I am. I would hate to think she's right.

That's good. Caterpillar never had any problems with the clear coat on their playfields.

That lettering would not have faded if they'd used a better clear coat over it.

It sounds like your intent to buy a deadpool is now dead because of pooling issues? Hello, irony.

Anybody else long for the good old days when thick or thin only referred to different pizza crusts?

Somewhere there's a guy named Sterk reading this and feeling really bad.

He probably has bigger issues to take care of. And you're just a small town guy, after all.

Copied from my post in the Pinball Expo 2019 thread:

Spooky is doing this with certain options for R&M. This can get tricky if the take rate exceeds the expected percentage.
(WARNING: car example follows.)

When Ford first added the MyColor dash option on the Mustang, they anticipated (and ordered parts for) a 20% take rate. Of course, MyColor (gauge color user-customizable by individually setting RGB levels) was cool and 90% ordered the option. Most customers were contacted through their Ford dealers and offered the choice of deleting the option and getting their Mustang fairly quickly or waiting an additional two to three months while more MyColor parts were ordered.

But maybe the air in a FH is denser and absorbs the impact more before the ball contacts the playfield. Nice equation, though.

Assuming you meant shuttered (and not shuddered)…you cited only the good and skipped over the bad:
WoZ, beautiful game but not the best shooter and initially plagued by light board problems.
Hobbit, considered by many as not a very good game despite the nice video and audio assets.
Dialed In, unattractive cabinet and playfield art and missed the mark on theme.
POTC, costs so much that people start threads about which two games would you rather have.
Wonka, stripped down compared to other JJP games and made in the clear-coat-gate era.
My favorite games from recent times are EHoH, JP2, and BM66 (with hope for R&M to fulfill its potential).

And yet you love plywood.

Copied from my post in the Pinball Expo 2019 thread:
Stern tour showed Elvira + JP + SW comic art edition all being assembled. Per our tour guide playfields are cut and routed at Stern, sent out for printing and clear coat, then returned to Stern where they are placed in racks and left for weeks to let the clear cure.

If this information is correct, then no wonder Stern wants to replace as few playfields as possible. The outside vendor would only refund Stern for the printing and clearing cost of defective playfields, and not the cost of the wood playfield itself. To try to salvage a playfield from bad printing or a bad clear coat, Stern would have to sand the top surface and send it out for reprinting and clearing.

Playfields in my older games still look pretty good. Even 2002 Stern Playboy and 2014 Stern Mustang premium are holding up well.
But the heavy dimpling pictured on recent Stern games here on Pinside has me torn about putting a protector on my EHoH LE or not.

I was out of space when I bought the game so I need to expand my game area. I was working at that - but then I ordered R&M.
So Elvira sits still NIB while I change things so it and R&M can both be added. Playfield protector for EHoH was ordered and received.

When I'm finally able to unbox Elvira do I install the protector or not? (Currently leaning towards installing it.)

None, since gameplay is not affected most will not bother to actually do the swap.
Down the road expect to see games for sale noting "brand new OEM playfield supplied along with game."
But I think you knew the answer before you asked the question.

Which means Who-Dey dislikes only one percent of Pinsiders.
And one percenters generally refers to the very richest Americans.
So basically, Who-Dey doesn't like the excessively wealthy?

I wish I qualified to be disliked by Who-Dey. Unfortunately, I do not.

So your avatar is constantly mooning us?
I may have to down vote you for that.

Kiwi saw the instruction "insert picture here" and took it literally.

Like the $9399 my EHoH LE cost me?

Some of you suggest that if enough Pinsiders stop buying NIB games completely until playfield issues are eliminated, then JJP and Stern will have to address the root cause of the problem to restore those lost sales.

Back in the '90s, when new games were sold mostly to operators, B/W would reduce pricing to close out small quantities of remaining NIB pins once they had moved the line on to the next new title. Operators caught on to this practice and quite a few started holding off buying new titles and waited for the close out pricing. As a result all of a sudden B/W had 1000 unsold NIB pins out of a run of 4000. Their answer was to reduce upcoming runs to 3000 and say "screw 'em" to ops that held off and missed out.

Although a much larger percentage of NIB pins are now sold to homeowners, Pinsiders are just a subset of that group. If a Pinside NIB boycott did affect sales to a noticeable amount, I suspect Stern would just compensate by reducing the inital run size of the next new titles. And if the smaller lot size cost them more for the parts, then Stern would just raise the list price of the games to cover the parts increases. And with fewer NIB sales there would be less used of those titles for sale HUO down the road.

I must be lucky. I've made over three thousand posts here on Pinside and none of them have ever chipped.

Any reputable company should be able to take care of product warranty issues when the complaints/claims are a very small percentage of production, such as warped playfields seem to be in Stern games. From the numerous posts we all see, clearcoat pooling is far more widespread. Pinsiders unbox new games and immediately inspect the playfield closely for any sign of pooling around posts or guides. It looks like Stern has decided they cannot afford to supply populated replacement playfields for just pooling. Some unpopulated playfields have been sent on a case-to-case basis for games with pooling and chipping.

So now the game has changed to "hot potato" where people briefly play and then quickly sell GNR to someone else, and whoever owns the game when the playfield starts chipping is the loser?

Sorry. I'll try to clean up any future posts I make here on Pinside. I don't want to add to the problem.

JJP has finally solved the problem of pooling and chipping around posts (although they have never admitted there has been a problem). All new JJP games will not have any posts on the playfield, thus eliminating the problem. JJP has teamed with Hasbro to use Nerf components (to absorb ball impacts and reduce component stress) in place of posts and ball guides.