Quoted from xamindar:What drama? What happened? I thought it was just because of the crappy theme and awful sounds.
Quoted from Dkjimbo:There was a bunch of drama - the owner of homepin made some public homophobic / bigoted comments and then doubled down on it and got all defensive when he got called out as memory serves. It’s buried in threads elsewhere around pinside for sure.
There's also a highly relevant backstory relating to Homepin's previous business ventures as well which hasn't ever been made public on pinside and which is also why 99% of the pinball community down here kept our wallets closed when it came time to preorder. 17 preorders from a primary target market of literally thousands of Australian pinball collectors speaks for itself.
Most of us had spread the word down here to not put money down with the guy as far back as July 2013. That's why he stuck around on pinside as there were no more buyers locally as he needed new international orders in 2018 to get the original domestic preorders from 2013 built.