Quoted from zpinman370:Stern already has hired guns - Jack Danger and the shill on The Pinball Show.
Thing is, they are never going to give an honest review like a Kaneda or Cary are willing to throw out there. You know the $600 topper that is a buy, buy, buy We need the Ying to the over the top Yang that you get from the sycophants to balance things out.
Look at how Kaneda helped build the hype train for the new JJP Guns N Roses before he got skewered. Now that was clever on JJP's part to give him a taste unlike what Stern is purportedly doing.
In the end we are all grown kids on here and need to make our own choices on what we purchase!!
I listened to Kaneda... and appreciated him for “speaking his mind.” He was entertaining. But, let’s be honest: Not being afraid to “speaking your mind” and giving an honest review are two totally different animals.
If you’re a pinball enthusiast that’s only concerned about art and assets, then he had some validity as a source for “reviews.” But if you’re an enthusiast that plays pinball for the game... then Chris was often useless.
I’m not talking tournament player “playing.”
Half the stuff he critiqued and skewered, he’d either never touched, or touched momentarily and didn’t understand.
I think Chris inflicted a lot of unnecessary and undeserved damage on titles (not to mention quality people working in the industry), but got a pat on his back because he was willing to say something negative. And that’s unfortunate, because a segment would take his boldness and brash comments and assume that they carried the weight of truth, when the reality was that he was simply saying dickish things.
Did Chris’s boldness help expose some shysters in the industry? Yes. Was his spotlight on pricing greed spot-on? Yes.
But, let’s not assume his “honest reviews” were all worth using to make decisions. Because they weren’t.