Quoted from CraZ4Pin:

Well, that is a bargain. Considering it will easily be 2 years from the time you put that money down until the time you get your game, you could have earned 4% a year on that money pretty easily. So in effect, you're paying more than 8k (or even if you only have $2500 down, you're still "paying" more than $7500). Not to mention you'll be paying nearly $300 in shipping? It's a lot of money no matter how you look at it.
If you can afford to buy even just 1 game a year at these prices, that's fantastic. I have no doubt Hobbit will be a winner!! But my main point was that there simply aren't enough pinheads who can afford to buy 8k+ games to sustain 2 or more manufacturers ongoing. God forbid the economy should turn again (which most economists agree is overdue) ... then we'll see just how fast sales really dry up.

Quoted from CraZ4Pin:

OMG, stop. You have your head SO far up Jack's butt I'm sure you know personally whether he has his tonsils out or not. I was in on WOZ very early and it wasn't out of charity to make JJP successful. Do you have any idea how many empty promises Jack made over the years that he broke?? From repeated misses on ship dates to "first to pay, first to play", to LE game features that evaporated (like only the LE would have mirrored backglass and the topper will be interactive.) Heck, I was always told that we would have our own discounted price list for spare parts. That never materialized did it? Now suddenly you're stating that IF you are wealthy enough to buy games #1, #2, AND #3 .. OH, then you'll be rewarded on game #3. BS. At best you'll be lucky to get a $500 discount off of your $20K plus worth of games. You just keeping drinking the Kool Aid.
Since you are so intimately familiar with "Jack's vision" why don't you explain in detail this grand vision?? Because I think I must have missed it. So far all I've seen is NIB pinball prices increase about 50%.

Quoted from statsdoc:

I would say that this development changes a lot in that it now gets much harder to figure out what Keith has planned. A 5" screen on the playfield, if true, offers endless possibilities.

Quoted from CraZ4Pin:

You're welcome.
As for multi-player games remotely .. how exactly would that work in your mind? I mean technically, yes, the game(s) could say 'Player 2 is up' and control would go to the other player. But that seems pretty silly in my mind since you wouldn't actually see the other player playing. You would just sit there until your game said something like "Okay, now it's your turn again". I guess you could stare at his score going up but that only seems like only so much fun. They would have to incorporate a video camera I think so you could watch on your screen what the other guy is doing during his turn.

Quoted from CraZ4Pin:

I obviously don't know (because after nearly 2 years since the announcement of the game, and only 3 months from supposed delivery .. we hardly know squat!!!). Thus, there is nothing better to discuss on this thread. However, I specifically posted that "I could be wrong" and "I would be completely shocked if this was actually at the top of JJP's priority list".
You really shouldn't build people's hopes up unless you have solid information that there will be such a feature. Many people know you're close with Jack and suggesting it is a possibility (if you don't know) is not nice IMO.