Quoted from Major-Havoc:I doubt Stern would be stupid enough to start shipping Premiums with bad playfields. I would assume they have taken care of the issue. But I guess you never know.
Games are still being shipped with bad playfields.
I played an LE that was built at the beginning of this month (August), and the playfield already had clear cracking around the ghosted inserts as well as multiple other inserts starting to ghost.