Saw the writing on the wall, sold my spike games. Won’t buy any more.
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Quoted from pinmister:Sucks for you because you are missing out. Live for today-not for tomorrow or yesterday. Stern Spike has it's flaws but damn their games are so much fun! As long as Stern is still in business I have no worries-they always take care of me.
Also was wondering if James called Stern or not?
MEH lots of great games out there, I don't mind avoiding Spike for now. Who knows maybe if one of their Spike games becomes a hit I'll give it a whirl....or maybe not
Quoted from pinballplusMN:I as a player/pinballbuyer wanted to buy MET but am passing because of the uncertainties of future repairs and node failures.
Additionally, I had a customer who I helped update his GB and it took out a node board. It was a nightmare to get working. This spike system made me look incompetent as I couldn't give an explanation of why it failed. I'm sure he wont be a repeat customer as he probably thinks I caused his node to fail.
I just had guy today with a SW that needed a flipper fixed and passed on the call. As ive mentioned before pinballs can have a personality of their own as far as breaking down. When I go on a home service call in a way Im married to the game as Im the last one that worked on the game. With Sam, Wpc, System 6-11 etc if some gremlin pops up while im on the call I can easily fix or anytime after I leave etc because Ive seen almost everything. Most failures have a cause or explanation I can give to the client.
Possibly in the future I will buy or work on Spike game but for now I will just enjoy them on location as they are lots of fun to play.
I have good news for you 
MET is SAM
Quoted from FalconPunch:There is a Star wars on location where I play a monthly tournament.
During a 4 player game the machine went into this weird slow motion style thing and stopped scoring. Lights where blinking very slow.
We rebooted the machine and it didn't turn on.
Turns out it need a node board replacement
1 month later at the next tournament the machine was working again, (new node board) but a massive cluster of insert LEDs where out....The Node board obviously controller these but everything else worked. I told the guys and they said they never realised....
They reseated all the cables and nothing happened.
Today I saw the machine again and the LEDs are still out. I asked what the deal was as they said that apparently the LED boards are fried after the NODE board went. Has anyone ever had that happen? Surely a Node board cannot fry every single LED board it is connected to
No fuses = fry fest
I don't see this as being anti new technology. True every manufacturer is going to surface mount electronics and various boards spread throughout the machine. Thing is all you mostly hear about are Stern node boards failing..........
Quoted from YeOldPinPlayer:Because there isn't anything else to fail now, it's almost all on the node boards.
What I am saying is we don't hear about a lot of board failures in CGC remakes, or JJP's or Spooky machines. The vast majority are always Stern node boards.
Honestly not sure why I'm even in this debate TBH. IDK what the problem is. IDK what the solution is. I just don't trust Spike and won't buy it. Other than that I'm just babbling here.
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