Quoted from DNO:But yeah, they suck and are just out to gouge their customers, making junk games.
Well, at least you got that part right.
Quoted from iceman44:Tell me where else are you going to buy a Nib pin for $5200? That's right no F ing where
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Stern is the only company putting out reliable, fun, full-featured commercial pinball machines on a regular, timely basis at a price point near $5,000.
I swear, this is classic "turn the heat up slowly and watch the frog boil and pop" psychology. 4 years ago, MetPro was a $4400 NIB game. In 4 years, we've inched up to $5200 for the "good distributors who take care of their customers" price, and this community just keeps taking it. 4 years ago, we would cry "MURDER" if a game was regularly $8000 and now look at everyone popping that for SWLE, DI standard edition (let that soak in for a second...the cheapest version is $8000), and AFMLE.
I'll never understand why this community just grabs its ankles and takes it from the pinball companies here. We are the reason these companies exist, and yet, what is the reward, a higher and higher price tag with lower and lower quality. And we keep.........taking..........it. I'll never understand it.
Peep my collection. I stopped with TWDPrem. I realized what Stern is doing, and I will not be taken for a ride. Quality goes down and prices go up - hell with that.
I don't need the newest, most shiney toy on my block. Hell with that. I'm not keeping up with the Jones'. That's nothing but trouble.
