Quoted from Baiter:If the name was "Dialed In Enterprises" and the "D.I.E." acronym I'd imagine that would solve the whole naming issue. Simple translite swap.
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Quoted from Jvspin:This is completely self serving but I would love to see a loyalty bonus, say $250 discount for each JJP game previously purchased. So someone who bought WOZ and TH gets $500 off of DI.
I agree. Loyalty type incentives have always earned a lot of points with me! If you think about it, surely it is one of the most simplistic and economical programs to operate. They only go bad, statistics have proven, when they are loosely concepted and implemented. By that I mean fraud and abuse. If the, "bad boy/girl" community finds a way to infiltrate and squeeze undeserved rewards out if any program, it usually is cooked and abandoned quickly. Being JJP's are in the $10k range it makes it much tougher to abuse a reward program so I hope they do something like that.
Quoted from Razorbak86:I think you're recalling a "vocal minority" of Pinsiders rather than a "majority". The vast majority of Pinsiders never even talk about "licensed" or "unlicensed" themes, much less bitch about one or the other.
Licensing cost typically make up roughly $50-$100 of the cost of a new pin. That's roughly equivalent to the wholesale price of a shaker motor add-on or Invisiglass upgrade. The development costs of an unlicensed theme are much higher than that, because a lot of the design has to developed from scratch. Pat actually addressed this issue in the JJP "deep dive" discussion at EXPO, saying that all of the graphics content of the SimCity-like video display has to be coded by JJP employees. Then he added (paraphrasing here), "While people still consider JJP a pinball manufacturer, we are much more like a pinball manufacturer / video game company now."
Are you sure" I heard license fees, time frame of 2014-2016, were near or at $500 per pin. I do admit that I did not ask detailed questions like what movie studio or what rock band was being referred to during that conversation( too many beers lol). Still, I kind of thought it seemed about right considering NIB pins have broken through that $6k barrier or wall quite easily lately. Seems like if I was Aerosmith or an equivalent entity, I would want more than a hundred bucks. Especially knowing how many hands would be held out waiting for a piece of that pie when the check arrived
Quoted from PanzerFreak:Wait, what?! I thought there was some crazy regulation crap that resulted in Stern having to put the power button in the head due to the Spike systems design? lol. I mean, surely it can't be that Stern didn't want to spend the extra $1 to run some wire to the front of the cabinet...
I always wondered what was the "exact" story behind the move. We all have heard the U.L. regulation explanation, the cost saving explanation...the simplicity reason and I think I missed one or two lol. Still a puzzle as far as I am concerned. Jeesh maybe the truth is something silly like a Stern Vice President noticing his wife, or girlfriend's, jugs hanging out while bending over to turn on/off one of the current Stern pins. Then immediately knowing his daughter played pinball at the local country club he immediately informed engineering to move the switch top side. Lol...just a thought. 
Well when you consider all the Led Zepp rumors (super high license fees) it kind of makes sense. Especially in this world of super high athlete salaries, movie stars, musicians, etc. Hard to believe a lousy C note can license a theme for a pin. Just sounds way to cheap but I do not have any credible sources for fees like this...just rumors.
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