Macomb, MI
Quoted from iceman44:Why is Stern going to sell a shit ton of Star Wars pins?
Because they piss on customers and are a shit company?
People are already climbing all over each other to get on a distributor list to be able to buy an LE. Some of you guys are delusional.
And then when Pulp Fiction and Iron Maiden rolls out next year too, the same old cries of "take my money please" will be loud and clear.
Watch it happen.
I hope you are right. For the first time since I can remember, nobody I know in pinball is ordering BM66 in any form and only a couple ordered GB in any form. I honestly don't care what distributors are saying since they all said KISS was the fastest selling Stern of all time and now many of them are sitting on stacks of LE models.
I think the pricing model, code releases (lack of), and reduction in quality of their machines will be coming home to roost over the next couple of years unless they do something to turn things around.
As for Star Wars, I for one am not very excited about what will probably be a two ramp game with a shaking Millennium Falcon in the middle of the playfield, call outs from some guy with a southern accent, and a code release schedule into 2020.
I would like to know how many of the 80 customers have/will pay for their BM66SLE in full. Its one thing to send in a video and verbally commit, its another thing to do the wire transfer.
Again, I hope you are right and I am wrong. The only thing I can do to help Stern survive is buy more of their games and that isn't happening anytime soon and I can afford them.
