It's the same banter over and over for the last 15 years... The reality is that only pinball people truly care about pinball. The size of the "pinball people list" has certainly grown a LOT in the last 5 years. Most of you have not been in the hobby long enough to remember the not so popular times of 1999-2002 when NO ONE thought pinball had a chance to survive... if you compare that time to now, I'd say it's doing a lot better. Love him or hate him, Gary Stern saved pinball back then and I for one am happy that he did.
OP is asking when the next "pinball 1999" will be? The real question I want you to answer is "Why do you care?" Why can't people just enjoy what they have when they have it?
"Are we creating the next... whatever the noun is here" regarding pinball? No one has the ability to "create or cause" anything like that, the multiple factors involved are out of your control.
