Quoted from RobT:AP's facebook post from 1-1-17 specifically talks about MG. Is it really possible for them to move forward without any ties to JPop at all if they are still going to make MG?
Quoted from Pinballlew:Well they have changed their position several times on this and it is unclear where they stand as they have not addressed it lately. Plus if we look back they where standing up for JPOP and had made promises of their own about MG and have alluded that American Pinball were going to make all zidware pre purchasers whole. Granted it was unclear exactly what this program entailed for RAZA and AIW as all we heard was stay tuned. So they should address this and let everyone know what the deal is with what they have already stated...especially if what they said is no longer the truth.
There is a possibility that they already dumped so much money into MG parts, ideas, possibly patents, etc. that they think it would be better and/or profitable to just finish the game (or at least so they too don't take a major loss). And if they make a few more, then other people can grab one. It won't be Williams Flash numbers, but I don't think they are going to manufacture a very small limited run like Spooky did with AMH. They may manufacture the number of games owed/prepaid, and maybe another bunch to sell outright or perhaps to offer to RAZA/AIW customers that got jipped?
With Balcer and some other people on board, things could certainly go in a different direction. The Houdini concept is there already, so it's not as if they would be starting from scratch exactly. If they made MG customers whole, possibly AIW/RAZA investors, and then kick out a pretty cool game in Houdini, I think they would get a pretty substantial kick in a good direction from at least some pinballers, that would have otherwise been totally screwed if nothing was done at all.
I think I'm gonna take a break from the speculation pool for now, and see what they come out with before June or September 2017. By then, multiple pin shows would have come and passed giving them an opportunity to offer more than just cheap talk. If it's still pretty much meaningless bullshit by then, I would totally doubt the validity of anything that AP says or puts out there.
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