Deroche, BC
Ok, here goes. After a few whisky. You know Stern and their history, you know code is not their top priority. So no one is grabbing your arm and making you buy their games. That is a what the business world is about.
You can walk away from the product the manufacturer is producing and sales will dictate the results. But to go to their site, whether it is internet or snail mail and continually bitch about their business practice and not expect to either be ignored or banned is ludicrous
I have been in the pinball business as an operator and collector since the early 90's and while the games produced have always had revisions, the operators and general public have been able to run the product. Williams had a list of my comments and ideas back then but now on the other side of the fence and running six businesses, there are lots of decisions that have to be made either for the good of the product or the consumer that are never revealed.
If your really disheartened about the quality of what is being offered then don't buy it . Speak with your wallet not your slanted views on their website and then wonder why they drop you off like a hot potato.
I must apologize to all the good fellows and ladies of pinside, but it seems almost every post of late is nothing more than a hijack by another member to vent his views on how businesses should run their companies. Really JJP and when MMR are up and running with a few products behind them then the purists of the game will see the benefits. But lets be real, pinball needs new blood and lots of it to even think about the glory days of the past. With that in mind did we look at layer games and modes with the e.ms of the day. No we just wanted some fun. Lets back off and let the companies battle it out, the end result will be better games and deeper rules. But we need to work on getting more families around the pin table and off the xbox and computers.
I will leave you now to pour another, and to bbq my post.
Brooklyn, MI
