Quoted from PoMC:Holy crap, over 1000 posts about this release? Yet, I don't care at all one way or the other. I guess I feel left out having no opinion on something I'm not even interested in buying.
yeah, none of us are.
We were hoping for a new game and not some home edition junk rehash.
We are likely still holding out a sliver of hope that there will be a surprise...
what else new in pinball is there to talk about this week.
Quoted from scruffypinball:They posted a YouTube update on their channel. You’re being disingenuous to seem cool. But that’s fine.
Yeah - it's an item in their channel. Which gives them a link that they can then give to the media AHEAD OF TIME for when the video is live.
That was hilarious, so glad I tuned in live for that so I could get the full "uh, it's over?" experience. 
Oh no... the rumours were true... let's all hope there's a second big announcement! Why can't it be April fools today....
Quoted from anathematize:LOL. a 30 second promo and the stream is done?
Double let down!
Quoted from The_Director:Costco star wars model. Awesome, why even hype that to pin people?
Exactly. The three day youtube countdown timer was a Pinside trolling.
Good grief, I have no problem with this game, but who on Earth thought it was a good idea to make the trailer a scheduled premier? You save livestreams for the really big and exciting announcements. This is the sort of thing you should just randomly drop without telling anyone, otherwise you create expectations that are guaranteed to not be met.
Quoted from brucipher:Nice that Stern Pinball is now trolling their customers.
wlecome to the Sharpe r era of pinball marketing. lol
Quoted from Whysnow:wlecome to the Sharpe r era of pinball marketing. lol
The thing is, it will work, because now everyone on Pinside is going to blow up and draw tons of attention to the game and Stern in general.
Quoted from Whysnow:wlecome to the Sharpe r era of pinball marketing. lol
You made this thread
Quoted from PokerJake:$4500 for that? Why not buy the full thing for an extra grand? This doesn't make sense.
$1000 less and less complexity, makes total sense.
Quoted from Adipocere:JJP and American just sold a bunch more machines to impatient people!
They got games at the comic con which averages 130,000 people in attendance?
This game is marketing towards new buyers.
I guessed the price right on the head. $4500 is a joke.. Stern may be attempting to market to a new type of buyer but at what cost to its loyal followers. If they release an actual game in the near future, no harm done, but if people have to wait till October for a new game. That to me is a marketing failure, not even a mistake.
I hope they arent setting up for a price increase on pros. After all, Gary says they are "under priced"
Quoted from ZenTron:They got games at the comic con which averages 130,000 people in attendance?
This game is marketing towards new buyers.
Yea but it makes me feel bad for these people. They have no idea. Just makes me remember when I first got into the hobby and overpaid for my first pin. A lot of people are going to learn the hard way that this is not real full featured machine and they paid a ton of money for it.
Quoted from Toppers:I guessed the price right on the head. $4500 is a joke.. Stern may be attempting to market to a new type of buyer but at what cost to its loyal followers. If they release an actual game in the near future, no harm done, but if people have to wait till October for a new game. That to me is a marketing failure, not even a mistake.
Remember 4 years ago when street pricing on a new Stern Pro was $4,800. I remember when Star Trek Pro was around that price. Now fast forward 4 years and we have this stripped down thing at $4,500.
I figure they set the list price at $4500 so they could sell at a street price of $4K.
Like others have noted, displaying it at COMICON is aimed at a new (not Pinside) market.
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