Quoted from flashinstinct:Problem is you can't compare B/W games and Stern games....because the main market back then were operators. So at the time noone really ever gave a shit if the games were incomplete. Fast forward 25 years...and times have changed.
But if people buy from early adopters instead of distributors then the distros and Stern get a lost sale. If prices came down and code came more complete out of the box...I'm sure people would buy more games.
Incomplete code has been going on for a long time. If people haven't stopped buying NIB games by now I don't see it ever happening.
I'm not sure how people buying from early adopters after code is complete is going to change anything. As soon as early adopters sell their game, they usually just go buy the next, latest, greatest pin, and the cycle starts over again.
As far as all the speculation as to what percentage of sales goes to the home market, no one really knows the answer to that.
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