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The streamer grievance thread

By swampfire

3 years ago

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Led Zeppelin (Premium) Stern, 2020
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Quoted from swampfire:
Well...okay. I think he actually had some good points about LZ. Maybe he saved me some money down the road. He just made me realize that this Stern is kind of stripped down. I don’t know man, I’m just discouraged and I realize now that I started a ridiculous thread and I’m sorry.

Thanks for recognizing your brain fart. Like you, I love LZ (and SR's work in general). Unfortunately, LZ was a big disappointment to me (I've played both the Pro and LE). Sounds like you really wanted to like it and the dude you are blasting made you reconsider your superficial/initial assessment.

Quoted from John_I:
When LOTR came out, they had crappy playfields, weak flippers and the software sucked and it continued to suck for a long time. It never would have gotten to where it was if it wasn't for the programmer taking it as a personal challenge to really finish and polish it. In my mind a Stern pro today is equal or better value compared to what we were getting in 2003. For the LEs and Premiums they cost more, but deliver more.
As for online reviews. I have never listened to any of them and never will. I know what I like in a pinball machine when I play it and have fun and want to keep coming back.

John, please. The LOTR I purchased in 2004 NIB had awesome software (rule set was totally complete, dots were highly refined and callouts were vast). I really don't know what you are talking about. Still have the game and after 20k plays, looks better than most of my newer Sterns with 500 plays. I'm happy you love Stern's new games, but in 2004 Stern was doing some quality work. TSPP was also an amazing game developed in the same time period.

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Quoted from swampfire:
Yep, I paid around $4300 in 2004 for my LOTR. I drove up to Brady Dist in Charlotte to pick it up. It was my first NIB and I didn’t know how to price-shop.

Don't feel bad...I paid $4,250.

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