Quoted from cogito:I think this is at the heart of one of the two arguments I've read. One group of people is fine with buying from a company that condones JPOP's ethics enough to associate themselves with him, because no one they care about was burned by the guy.
The other group of people however considers every single pinball player in their in-group. This new company employs someone who stole from "us". Even though I haven't personally lost money in this fiasco, I'm frustrated by people that are egotistical enough brush aside JPOP's shameful sense of ethics, which is something American Pinball is apperently fine with as well.
I understand that this MG undertaking might actually work out for pre-purchasers, and if it does, then I'm happy they finally got something out of this horrible ordeal. To me though, any MG I'll ever see will always remind me of the sad incompetent guy that probably managed to survive in the 90s industry by the grace of the hardworking people around him, and whose delusions of grandeur have been allowed to exist because the pinball crowd is too courteous to sink to his level.
It doesn't matter whom a thief steals from. It's the belief that lying and taking things you haven't earned is ok, that I have a problem with.
Anyone that wants to can wait until all MG games are delivered before having anything to do with AP. It looks like the only way this can have a happy ending.
Fitchburg, WI
