WH2O has great playfield art.

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A lot of love was put into the art.
Whereas GOT's playfield looks like it was rushed for a Zizzle or whatever that crap was called.

I would like to also add that Bob Stevlic is very talented and did a decent job with the LE translite, the cabinet art on the LE is also hurt by that horrible armor, which could get replaced with these at Marco's:

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But that PF art is horrible. Who did it? He should be fired.

I think it was cheap talent. Age has nothing to do with it.

Is it true that the playfield for the Premium will be different and by Freres? That could be good.

Don't flock to them?!

No way, Popaduik's playfield reveals were making people asking for more units. Then it all crashed. A million bucks of consumer money was lost.

Many of us would flock to unlicensed if it looked good like a B/W.

Get off your high horse.

Sopranos' art is not as bad as GoT. It does its job at the bare minimum.

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No lazy gradient swirl, no emboss, no drop-shadows, the inserts are not bunched-up, there's no repetition of gears-equivalent symbols, there are humans depicted, etc...

When you look at Mustang, WWE, and now GoT, I'm starting to think that moving to a new facility cost them enough money that they were forced to reduce their proceeding budgets.

Stern did say that he sees the company more as a manufacturing plant than a pinball design co.

And he put his money where his mouth is, just look at this, it's an actual translite.

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So I'm watching these GoT video tidbits...

The white on black background titles last almost as long as the video part. It's annoying.

Steve Ritchie is old and tired, he takes 2 years because that's what he needs. He's retiring slowly, not the one shot "goodbye I'm out" kind of retirement. Gomez is a top dog at Stern and he doesn't work there fulltime (he made it sound in an interview that he visits once a month or something). And Ritchie has enough clout at Stern to ask for an easier schedule. Borg is young when compared to the other designers, so he works faster with more hours at the studio, the guy just works harder. Give Borg 2 years with Lyman.

We have to stop thinking that Ritchie's long schedule equates to time served.

This coming from a guy who uses the same emoticon every few posts.