Upside to Dwight's games is that they are "pretty complete" at or shortly after release. The downside to Dwight's games is that he then gets moved on to another project and a good polish/bug fix pass or two never happens, or happens a long time after release.

Over the last year or two Stern have added lots of programmers. Initial code releases are better (or are better shortly after launch) then they have been in the past. After the blinking box of lights that was B66 at launch, and a weak GoTG, games have mostly launched with decent code and have had significant updates quickly to get the games up to snuff.

Still room for improvement, but I think they got the need for better code. Unfortunately GB and Kiss are the red-headed step-childs here and were released over two years ago and are lagging behind.

I get that he is the new Pinside "butt boy" of coding, (Lonnie should buy him a beer for taking the pressure off), but:

1) GoT owners have been waiting for fixes and updates for longer than GB owners.

2) Stern has previously tied code updates into re-runs of their pins, and with GoT just ended and a small run of Pros on the line, makes the most sense from a marketing perspective.

3) The GoT update would indicate that Dwight is finally getting the time to re-visit his previous pins, so now all the bitching just comes off as "waaaaah, I want my pin done first", which is kind of sad.

I get the frustration, I sold my GB after waiting a long time for an update. Just don't think Dwight deserves all the heat for the delay, or for releasing GoT code updates first. I doubt he has full say and control as to what he works on when. Regardless, personal attacks and name calling are uncalled for imo.