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Innovation vs tradition in pinball - a warning for deeproot

By spinal

4 years ago


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    “Pinball is strongly rooted in tradition...”

    • ... so new manufactureres need to carefully manage innovation over time to be successful 7 votes
      29%
    • ... yet the pinball community is ready for any level of innovation and changes - bring it on 17 votes
      71%

    (24 votes)

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    #3 4 years ago

    They haven't announced anything, there's nothing of substance to talk about, so I vote who cares. Show me something, and I'll see what I think of it. Until then it's meaningless.

    I definitely give no shits about pinball from my childhood, I didn't care at all about pinball when I was a kid. Just like kids now definitely don't care. It all comes down to execution. Nobody (relatively speaking) cares about what Multimorphic is doing because their game packages look like amateur hour. It's all engineering, with no art direction, and you can only sell so many tech demo machines to people for $10k. If the games were compelling no one would care they weren't traditional.

    Heighway did a thinner backbox already and changed the cabinet. Nobody loved either because they were kinda crummy designs, but it's not the reason the company failed.

    I find the current state of pinball hopelessly boring. I sure hope someone shakes it up. But catering to nostalgic old men is the way to stay in business, so I won't hold my breath, I'll just hold onto my wallet instead.

    #7 4 years ago
    Quoted from spinal:

    Moderators, or others, can someone tell me how to ban a troll like this from detailing all my threads? It really is hurting my perception of pinside as an open place for discussion.

    Put him on ignore, or grow up and don't respond if you don't like his posts. Hover over his avatar and click the little mic icon, boom, you'll never see him again. Your thread will be that much more empty.

    Your opening post wasn't particularly interesting. Asking people what innovations they'd like to see in pinball might provoke discussion. Instead you said what innovations that we haven't seen yet do you not like?

    I dunno, I hate the levitating pin that doesn't exist, it's too expensive. Bring back legs! Have a free thread bump, good luck.

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