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Quoted from Only_Pinball:Or the Bond LE and $7k in your pocket!
Or passing on it altogether and keeping $10-$20k in your pocket. I’m a Bond fan but this is the path I’ve chosen.
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James Bond 007 (60th LE)
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Quoted from metallik:I don't see why so many people are uptight about this. Stern is simply doing what every other gaming company does: milking their whales. And hey, if they want to be milked, no problem! $20K is much different from one person to another. Keith and Mark will deliver a fun and engaging machine, and owners will enjoy playing it. Stern gets money they will hopefully reinvest in creating better product or keeping prices down on Pros.
I'll just wait for Keith's next cornerstone.. I know the 60th will show up at shows or locations at some point.
Their whales are rapidly drying up.
Quoted from TreyBo69:Please enlighten me
All I see is a barometer for how healthy the market is. Stern is able to sell 500 20k pinball machines as a special project, on top of doing their typical cornerstone releases with price bumps
Yeah pinball is outpacing inflation. The demand growth for pinball far exceeds production growth, so prices go up faster than inflation. Stern is going to keep raising prices and do high ticket small runs to keep growing as a company to make their vampiric private equity overlords happy.
You eventually accept that reality. Then it becomes amusing to watch grown men, who can afford a $100k+ collection of pins, hem and haw over how expensive some of the toys have gotten.
Demand outpacing production growth? Times, they are a changing. You are living in the past, man. You are thinking of 2020-22, man.
Quoted from NeilMcRae:This is what I don’t get - apparently it’s ok to buy Alien - a game with such a dubious history where hundreds of people lost money, designers of the game didn’t get paid and a long list of other bad smelling crap but it’s not ok to buy bond?
Poor analogy.
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