The cause of 90% of drama here is people pre-ordering brand new games. Seriously.
See, that's why I love my EMs. They're finished, no code updates, and if you have any complaints you're gonna need a ouija board. 
I guess they give a good lesson on pinball too, "if you don't like, don't buy!"... The EM community simply avoids buying games they don't like let alone spending a MASSIVE 6-8 grand on one, those EMs are truly never changing obviously, "you get what you get", even the new ones aren't going to massively change in a reasonable amount of time, too many people get screwed because they buy these new games before they are done.
Then people on here battle over who's fault it is (thus creating MORE drama), the buyer for being an idiot for sending companies very guilty of bad practices money vs. the company being terrible and selling games like that. It's probably both. But nobody can ever agree on that. And of course when you have 8k into a game and you're unhappy you're gonna be angry as hell, and that is the source of most of the drama around here.
People need more patience. People are too stuck up on being one of the first guys to own one of these shiny new adult toys (sounds dirty, unintended) and they end up screwing themselves over on it, and at this point Stern (and others) basically have a giant sign around its neck that says "WE ARE FAR FROM PERFECT AND IF YOU BUY A GAME FROM US WITHIN A YEAR OF RELEASE YOU WILL PROBABLY BE DISAPPOINTED" yet people keep jumping in on games and end up disappointed - surprise! Of course then they feel inclined to complain, which they probably are, and then it fills the forum up with that junk we hear over and over again because if five playfields flake, 100 are going to, so we hear it from nearly everybody who owns one of those new machines.
If people could just wait a year after a new game comes out (fully released and shipping, not a year after pre-order openings) to buy:
- You know what to expect
- Code would be further along
- You can actually have realistic expectations, as much as we'd love it these companies are clearly not owning up to the product cost
- You can still buy new-in-box
- Bugs in hardware will be worked out (mechs, cabinet issues, playfield issues, better design changes)
- Possibly cheaper price
- Games will actually be shipping and you can be sure your game won't be stuck in some other country somewhere (which is happening right now) or that some guy won't run off with all of your money (which has happened before to many)
- And if you're still not happy with the state of the game after a year of being released (or it hasn't released) that is probably a telltate sign you should stay away from buying it and don't look back
But noooooooooo, people keep pre-ordering games and then come here to cry when they get screwed over time and time again. And yes, at $6,000 - $12,000, that is the absolute LAST thing you should be having to deal with because that is a stupidly high amount of money and yes you should be allowed to voice your situation/concerns at that point, but that doesn't mean it isn't how it is!
We need a section for this kind of thing that needs to be heavily moderated and toggable off for the rest of us who don't want to see that kind of junk.
