Don't blame new people coming in but the like, 3(?), manufacturers who have done nothing to up production.

Was interested if any engineering jobs at Stern... No career page or nothing on their site. Doesn't seem like they have any interest in keeping up with demand.

I read something about Jersey Jack... Supposedly he serviced pinballs but there was one manufacturer (Stern) who was slow as hell to release pinballs so he had less and less work until he made his own pinball company.

So like yeah... Never knew a market could be dominated by so few companies with such poor and unstructured releases/manufacturing.

Though in general, I agree. New people coming in who are just transient or trying to be cool or those with money to just drop for the sake of it (not passionate or even appreciative)... Totally lame.

The end result is the same. Whether the pinballs were crap or scarce.

https://pastimepinball.com/americas-iconic-pinball-manufacturers-past-and-present