Is a fix even needed now since stern threw in the towel and disabled by default the left to right orbit? $100 is steep for me.

- Added Adjustment to disable orbiting from left to right. This will be ON by
default on the LE/PREMIUM. All left orbit balls will go to the pop
bumpers by design.

It sucks that stern and Richie failed to come out with a fix after both confirmed it was a hardware design problem.

Instead of coming out with a fix for the LE owners, they continued to manufacture more LEs and then premiums with the same hardware problem.

Stern and Richie were simply too cheap to fix their known hardware design defect and masked it with s simple software update.

It is clear and apparent that stern and Richie are more concerned about their bottom line than they are about quality.

This is glaringly obvious with all their cost cutting on new machines..

They are manufacturing pinball machines now cheaper than ever yet charging their customer base more than ever.

So please enlighten us as to WHY STERN DID AVOID coming out with a fix.

Patrick, Shawn, Chas and richie ALL said "This is a know issue our engineering team is hard at work to rectify this problem please bear with us as they resolve this. Once a fix is created we will post a service bulletin. Thank you".

They haven't done shit.

I have the last three games richie designed with two being LE's. Richie was the designer and in charge of the project. The game was designed to have a working orbit and he failed. This isn't a switch adjustment or a broken wire or a cracked plastic. This is a design flaw.

Oh, and lets not forget the ball hangups on the STLE pops where his fix was to drill a screw in the playfield. I personally would have designed the pops so there would never be a ball hangup but he gets a pass for everything. Another design flaw IMHO.

I'm also upset with richie that he never pushed for the cannon modes to be activated on acdc.

Stern should be supplying this fix and we shouldn't be obligated to spend $100 for a bracket and I was one of the first few people to confirm the diverter bracket was the problem and it couldn't get repositioned without drilling.

That's all I'm saying man. I own the games, let me bitch if I want to. LOL