Is this true? Did Borg really want 4 drops?

I agree, total bullshit and all the designers think that too. I will never buy a pinball machine where what is supposed to be an entire bank of drops is replaced with a super long spot target. It’s embarrasing(!) and a slap in the face to the pinball gods. This is why my interests lie mostly in 70s-90s pins now.

I could not agree with this more.

My feeling is that in the effort to shave $20 off the BOM they make it clear to many of us that they are willing to cut into the pin designer’s vision and that does not sit well with me. Immediate response is... I’m not buying this ever.

Now back to the penny wise, pound foolish. Let’s say just 20 of us walk because of that stupid ass target. Assume they make $1000 profit per machine so they lose enough to add a $20 mech into 1000 machines.

For certain very visible mechs where it’s very obvious they are just being cheap, my view is this doesn’t make business sense and in the end they could even be losing profit as that 20 walked away could easily be many more.