Question: Is Pre-Order Pinball Done, Yes or No and Why?
The success rate of "pre-order" pinball has not been great.
To me the value of being in on a pre-order game isn't there for the most part,
as you could have had that money in an actually existing game, played it
and then sold it when the to be pre-ordered game actually came out.
Pre-order money does one thing for those that in the end don't complete a product...
it Justifies Bad Behavior. If the pre-order capital didn't exist on doomed projects,
then they would have had to find other means to find it and in the end would
have had to prove themselves as a valid and real manufacturer on their own dime.
Also, the process of these doomed/possibly to be failed projects wouldn't have drug on so long...
Every damn company could have started some type of crowd funded opportunity
or some kind of company ownership option (to those with more money than sense)
and or sold merchandise like shirts, etc... to fund their operation.
The future is bright for companies that make games instead of excuses.
The future is bright for this hobby as a whole (bar arcades, conventions, events, etc...).
Pre-Order is a Blackhole in this industry and hobby, but only time will tell when it's existence will end...
Namaste