Quoted from 27dnast:I’m pretty much right there with you... know what you mean.
He’s saying that it’s planned. And he’s also indicating there’s a good shot that spike games could simply become paper weights due to a poorly conceived system... one that they might be showing a commitment to supporting 8-10 years out. That’s a serious accusation against a company that’s selling high dollar value items to collectors.
I’d certainly like to hear why Stern has to say about this.
I'd like to hear what Stern has to say as well. We had George Gomez giving a speech about the supposed benefits of the Spike system at it's introduction, and then he also mentioned that we'd be getting schematics (more than once), but that has not happened to this point, which concerns me. I would be interested in hearing what Stern has to say about their Spike system in retrospect, knowing what they know now, and answering some hardball questions, but what if they're actually displeased with Spike and the warranty repair issues it's had with board failures (and having to send out replacement boards and having to make system revisions on the fly). There's no way I can see them getting up in front of all of us and saying publicly "Sorry guys, we f*cked up here". They'd have to spin it so as to not cause panic among their best customers.
I also don't know how you could prove the planned obsolescence thing, unless you had some documentation of a Stern staff meeting where they were specifically talking about it as part of a plan. Without that, how could you prove obsolescence was on purpose and not just a natural technical evolution.
Man... it's too early in the morning to be using such long words repeatedly.