He probably equated "most expensive" Stern with "best selling".

Wow! The LE's must really be in demand for Stern to increase their number. I better get one quick before they're all gone. Should be an excellent investment.

Don't see how anyone can say that Stern (or any manufacturer) going back on their word like this is okay.

Is it a big deal? In my opinion, no. Upside is more people will get games and doubt it will have much affect on resale. Still doesn't make it right.

As others have pointed out, it's not the first time, so not a surprise and shouldn't expect it to be the last.

Just keep the possibility in mind when making purchase decisions in the future.

The nerve of Stern stating a specific number of LE's to generate quick sales then upping the numbers after the fact when sales are good to generate more money....cough Munsters...cough...BM66 SLE.

If demand is still going strong after 600 are sold, time to rethink that allotment again. Same reasoning should apply.

Was about to say the strategy of increasing LE allotment if demand is strong will only work once, but nah...I suspect it will work over and over again.

Got to hand it to Stern, the way they're always playing around with their pricing strategies keeps us guessing.

Yeah, me too. I hate having multiple things to shoot at when I play pinball.

I think it's easier and requires less resources to make a game deep by using multipliers and intricate scoring rules than it does by using modes and story progression.

They don't need a bunch of sound, display and lighting effects to count from 1x to 40x.

Agree. I expect the designers are on a pretty tight budget. Probably best to ask which feature(s) would you give up to get individual Lily stand-ups.

As long as people from the "I don't care how stripped it is, as long as it's fun." camp are lining up to buy the game, why not?

Will people pay more for the game if they add a drop target bank? Will the lack of a drop target bank significantly hurt sales? If Stern thinks the answer to these questions is "no" then leave it out. Easy peasy.

IMO, you can probably apply these questions to every aspect of the game to understand the decision making process.

Even less important with most games going into home settings. Just disturbs the people in the other room.

The value is it's the only Munsters pin out there! From most accounts it also shoots well and is a lot of fun.

I recently got a Full Throttle and my wife was commenting that it was refreshing to get a game with easy to understand yet fun to achieve rules.

That and the price are the main reasons I never got a MB, gameplay didn't engage my interest enough to bring it home.

Who cares about that stuff? All that really matters is the theme and art...

They could remove more things and the game would play even faster. Everyone knows speed = flow = fun.

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My that measure, there is lots of egg flying in lots of faces then, IMO.