It's slightly more understandable with a longer-playing game, but equally unforgivable in my book

Maybe average ball time is 1 hour, and the owner played 1 game a night for 102 nights?

A very large collection...... someone picks up a few games in a package to add to a bigger collection. They play it here and there, then decide they don't like it, need the money, want something new, and BOOM.....out the door it goes with 100 plays.

It takes me a long time to get to 100 when I open new titles. I have sold many with less than 100....wolverine, hulk, stle to name a few

My games don't really even get played now that I have a kid. Last year, before he arrived, I put 1500 plays on my TRON. now I'm lucky if I will put 1 play a week in on it.

I put 900 on my IMVE in two months. Still no DodMB...

It's either a) they lie and purposely reset the plays, b) they reset them while changing back to factory presets or c) they aren't pinheads. In 3.5 years we have put 5200 plays on our nib Avatar. I like how newer sterns have earnings audits that CANNOT be reset! No more "it's HUO! Really!"

Wow, since Oct 2010 when mine was delivered, I only have 1100 plays on it. And thats still one of the most played games. 5200 is a lot for home use (though it is a great game)

what do you mean? If you install a new code isn't everything reset?

This. I used to play the hell out of every game when it showed up, but now as the collection grows, each new game gets played less when it arrives. Just the double edged sword of having more and more pins.

and you have 3X as many games as him.

Nope! You cannot reset earnings in new sterns! Resetting, new code and factory spec restore all have no impact on the earnings since new.

I know the answer to your question. 102 plays is a lot for Chris.

But choices are good! Having pins for whatever mood I am in is a huge benefit of having enough pins. If anyone audited all my games from month to month they would think I was schizophrenic. Some months they would think all I play are fast games that abuse me. Other months they would think I was old because I only play slower calm games.

Except Demo Man. No matter what month that bitch still gets played and played. No explanation for it, DM just still gets it right. No deep thought, just play.

I hear ya guy. I try to put at least 5-10 games on my Addams every night. When I had my 3 pin set up I would play 2-3 on each every night. My BOP got over 250 plays at MGC in 1.5 days.

I can give you a ton of reasons this happens. For me personally I at one time had too many games. This left some games not even being played once a week. After scaling back to half what I had they get played more but still sometimes I can go days without playing. A laundry list of reasons from work, family and dogs. I still consider myself a pinhead but not as hardcore as most.

X-men, LOTR, WH20,TSPP,Family Guy all came and went with less then a 100 plays, no resets, new code ECT. Just played as much as time allowed and wish I could have gotten more of my monies worth.

With that said I just broke a whopping 300 plays on Ac/Dc after two years, and Tron has close to the same amount of play.

Happy to have cool pinsiders over to increase these numbers so it's not as if I am hoarding "my precious".

Big collection = fewer games played per title . I play what my mood of the moment dictates . I rarely play more than one game on any title before I move on to another title for my second game . Games always seem fresh when I go back to play previous title again on another day . Downside I am not likely going to set any record for high scores since you don't get the shots , rule set or flow down . Big big big collection even fewer plays since you have all the work keeping the games running . Plus with me farm work makes pinball is a rainy day hobby . Enjoy your day . Shane

I bought a MM new in 1997. I have 1780 plays on it in 17 years.

As someone said, more games = fewer plays per game

I am convinced people simply reset the audits and then claim to have a low play game, or they are collectors and not players.

this is good news, when did this start? I re-flashed my STLE but forgot to check the audits, so I'd like to see how many games I've played total.

I don't think I play all that often, but I still put on more games than the OP mentioned. I put 500 on AC/DC in a year. I put the same amount on Metallica in 2 months. Now in the 3rd month of owning Metallica, I am still playing it way more than AC/DC. Other pins that I own/have owned get played quite a bit less than these two.

I am still a terrible player, so the game times are pretty short.

Total plays do reset; it's the games paid for (revenue) that doesn't. If a less than give year old stern has been routed it will show up in the earnings audit.

This subject has been discussed in the past. I'm guilty of having very few plays on my games due to everything else in life. A couple games played here and there for me is great. Don't get to play every day, week or month. Also add in my enjoyment of restoring or fixing games and time is the key!-Joe

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Lol, I just checked the audits on my first game which is Tron. Had it for about 29 months and I have put 8100 plays on it and I still suck at it : )

I understand having more games results in less overall play for each game but I have no clue how IM could be that low with it's crazy short game times. My least played is ST PRO, got it in May and it have 397 plays.

Put the novis in the basket.

I put over 3000 plays on bk2k in the first year I had it. I played that game a lot.

I've had WoZ since July and have personally put about 40 games on it if I had to guess and most of those were in the first week or two. It was used in a tournament so it has a total of 213 plays. When I go in to the gameroom, it is just not the game I want to play. I have probably played 100+ games on most of my EMs since July and at least 250 games on STLE.

The way I play that game, 3000 games will take about 15 min (I am horrible at BK2K)

Meh, it's sad but my games only get a few plays a month.. Just to busy with other shit. When I get time everybody's sleeping and I can't jam so I don't bother