Godzilla (Limited Edition)
Stern, 2021
Godzilla (Premium)
Stern, 2021
Godzilla (Pro)
Stern, 2021
James Bond 007 (60th LE)
Stern, 2023
James Bond 007 (LE)
Stern, 2022
James Bond 007 (Premium)
Stern, 2022
James Bond 007 (Pro)
Stern, 2022
Rush (LE)
Stern, 2022Quoted from JustEverett:IC app just hit app stores. I managed to get it downloaded, but the servers must be burning down as it won't load anything.
Same issue here. Not very well planned if you didn't think you'd get a surge of connections after emailing all your customers. This is basic 101 in a software release that Stern just screwed up.
Quoted from Oneangrymo:Awesome idea, mine doesnt work.
They pulled it down so they can post the correct version which includes those annoying 3min ads from YT upon loading. But don't worry. You can turn them off in the settings!
Quoted from parsonsaj:I get to the login screen but it rejects the same credentials that have always worked on the web page.
Same here..... uninstalled..... Will wait till it actually works.....lol
Why am I not surprised....
Honestly how difficult would it have been for them to just increase the web app session timeout to something reasonable like a week or a month. They could have done this two years ago and reduced most of the friction in the web app.
Quoted from ExSquid:Must renting servers from Activision. Cool none the less!
the $0.25/hr hosting plan can't take the the rush.
Quoted from 11strings:It's slow, but I got in.
That's what he said....
Stern cut corners with the original launch in picking their development partner...
Buggy, not designed for real world users, poorly implemented...
Stern hires a PM internally to run the project... yet two years later we are basically in the same boat with only minor fixes and most Operator data being too unreliable or oriented in useless ways to even bother looking at.
So when they hit their next big milestone what do we get? Oh yeah... basically more of the same incompetent dev team work.
I wonder if they ever will learn to actually talk to their target audience and actually test if functionality actually addresses the use case.
I mean... Stern Insider probably has what.. probably 10-30k users? Maybe a few hundred or a thousand were trying this morning? They obviously muffed this roll out.
I decided to leave my phone open with the app spinning, and it did eventually load. Likely just that Stern did not anticipate the amount of server traffic they are receiving. Makes sense given the mid-day launch, they were trying to spread it out. But with everyone having their phones available at all times, the mid-day launch probably isn't going to decrease traffic much.
Quoted from acedanger:Did Stern outsource app development to JJP?
Nah, if they did then this would only be a beta release of the app 
Quoted from flynnibus:I mean... Stern Insider probably has what.. probably 10-30k users? Maybe a few hundred or a thousand were trying this morning? They obviously muffed this roll out.
Yeah, that's the thing that boggles my mind. It isn't like this is a complicated system. Login, throw down some static data and a bit of user data. Shouldn't be hard to scale to the relatively small number of users.
Quoted from acedanger:Did Stern outsource app development to JJP?
it seems like the server side is under sized and JJP coding is not web / server codeing
Quoted from Joe_Blasi:it seems like the server side is under sized and JJP coding is not web / server codeing
Quoted from Joe_Blasi:it seems like the server side is under sized and JJP coding is not web / server codeing
iCmwNX0W-57AA029C-F0D3-43E2-A737-807A1C95B83D (resized).jpgQuoted from flynnibus:Stern cut corners with the original launch in picking their development partner...
Buggy, not designed for real world users, poorly implemented...
Stern hires a PM internally to run the project... yet two years later we are basically in the same boat with only minor fixes and most Operator data being too unreliable or oriented in useless ways to even bother looking at.
So when they hit their next big milestone what do we get? Oh yeah... basically more of the same incompetent dev team work.
I wonder if they ever will learn to actually talk to their target audience and actually test if functionality actually addresses the use case.
I mean... Stern Insider probably has what.. probably 10-30k users? Maybe a few hundred or a thousand were trying this morning? They obviously muffed this roll out.
Maybe Stern should stick to making pinball machines instead?
We bitch when they don't have an app & we bitch because they do. Yes is the roll-out perfectly executed absolutely not. But JHC relax peeps it will be distributed throughout different servers in due time to absorb the traffic/load.
People love to bitch. Stern already posted about the crash. Issues are to be expected with a launch. Not a big deal.
On the other hand, the Stern ads downloaded, installed and play perfectly in attract mode. Hopefully this makes everyone feel better.
Quoted from JustEverett:People love to bitch. Stern already posted about the crash. Issues are to be expected with a launch. Not a big deal.
They did not size the servers / web site the right way.
Did they do any load testing??
Quoted from Joe_Blasi:They did not size the servers / web site the right way.
Did they do any load testing??
You’re asking the wrong guy. I have no information on the internal workings of stern.
Quoted from acedanger:we bitch because they do.
As far as I’m concerned they still don’t have an app until it’s functional.
Actually…I just searched the App Store under “stern pinball” and “insider connected”….they literally don’t have an app as of this posting.
Unless I’m searching for the wrong thing.
Quoted from EJS:As far as I’m concerned they still don’t have an app until it’s functional.
Actually…I just searched the App Store under “stern pinball” and “insider connected”….they literally don’t have an app as of this posting.
Unless I’m searching for the wrong thing.
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