Quoted from jamescardona:It only makes sense for Stern or any pinball manufacturer to try to stop people who they feel are not being objective in the reviews of their products.
Actually, what they should be doing, if they are not already, is put their products in front of more people who are objective (or supporters) so that on release you have a bunch of thorough, well-thought-out reviews on the day one product reveal so that the negative-nellies are drowned out.
Except ... a lot of the criticism towards stern (& I really like their machines) are being objective and truthful - it's complaints about the poor quality of PF's, parts breaking in the first week of ownership, things not put together correctly.
Actually, what they should be doing is improve their quality and assembly, so the complaints really are just opinions about theme and layout
A few bad reviews/comments about themes and layouts people don't like won't hurt the company. Revelations about poor quality will.
My JP arrived with about 3 issues I had to fix out of the box, just not acceptable
