I totally agree. I was eyeing this game for location but it seems too brutal. Most of the people playing on location are not very good and dumping coins in and not having fun gets old fast. I want people to walk away with a smile not a frown that is the only way they will come back and location pinball will grow. I had a game with a switch problem that made getting multiball pretty easy. It was killing it so I ended up leaving it alone for a while.

I love games with code that rewards bad players with something on the last ball. You take someone who was going to walk away with a bad perception to having fun and hopefully coming back for more.

GB looks awesome but if good players are saying it is hard imagine what a noob will think.

Yep! They get that rush and have a lot of fun and want to do it again. They walk away with a smile!

WOZ does multiball or extra balls with the mystery award on the 3rd ball a lot if you are not doing well. I think it also does add a balls more on lower scoring games too but not as certain about that. Wish that was common on Sterns.

A decent amount of sales still goes to people who operate, maybe this is more the case out of the US though. For recent Stern games in New Zealand I would estimate that over half maybe up to 2/3rds of games are going on location for a time. This is more the case than it used to be here because interest in pinball has grown and the exchange rate and stern price increases have bumped prices of NIB games by almost 50% in the last couple years.

GB is a tricky one for me as I am worried it is too hard for a location game. Heck I have heard people complaining that GoT is too hard. The only way I would pick up a GB now is if I could make it a bit less brutal and stern fixes slimer so it can stand up to location play. Killer theme for location but it needs the rest too.

What works on location is not the same as what pinheads want. I'm a bit worried that Stern is listening too much to pinheads and not considering new location players. Good location games are simple to understand (e.g. bash sparky) with visible goals (go around the munchkin hut, bash in doors of the castle or prison, etc) and doesn't brutalise a novice player. As much as I want to buy one it isn't quite there yet. Maybe if they rework it a bit it will be.

Guess those are options but I like to keep games consistent pricing wise so I wouldn't do it. I don't want to have to explain this to a customer either.

I am less worried about the cheap drains as that seems very fixable, there are things you can do with TWD. Slimer is what worries me the most, seems to either be too sensitive or not sensitive enough. They need to fix that. I may well pick one up still but I will have to see if there are fixes or not. Location is very different playwise. I want all my games working 100% and I would not site a game that required the same thing to be adjusted every week or so. I have had flaky games before and getting a txt that the game you just fixed is broken again really sucks. I get rid of those games fast.