Shame no easy way to verify glass off play so can use at home but seems fun. I'm in.

Or even just throwing some bones to your high spenders (who will most likely sign up) while not impacting your bottom line from anyone walking off the street. It's no different then a loyalty rewards program that numerous establishments already use but it's universal across all modern stern games. Don't have to worry if your location uses cash, tokens, or is on free play. I, as a player, don't have to create a million different accounts for each place I visit. Genius if you ask me.

My shot in the dark guess is subscriptions would be for things like real time access to earnings, exporting of reports to quicken, possibly the real time reporting of issues etc. Things a home user wouldn't care about.

I do hope players are able to notify operators of any issues, possibly create tickets (xyz flipper is stuck) and hopefully that feature is not subscription based!

Or didn’t think to include a unique machine identifier in that code that could distinguish you being at that particular machine.

Yes. Unsure how it's going to be implemented but that's my understanding and can be specific to the location or game.

Would be cool if it allows things like - I haven't seen you in x amount days. Here is a free credit to get you back playing. Or you just played 10 games (any games over any amount of time) - here is a free credit.

It would only make sense if it were for the operators unless it unlocked some sort ability to get rewards from Stern itself (t-shirts etc).

For operators, as I mentioned earlier, paid features could be things like online access to earnings, ability to export to things like quicken, remote access to machine issues (and maybe ability to change settings remotely?), analytics about play frequency and times etc. Things a player or home user wouldn't care about.

Heck maybe this can start enabling things like dynamic pricing. A game is not being used a lot? Price declines. Or at least the ability for operators to gather metrics to make better decisions on things like price.

At the end of the day operators are the reason the HUO market has gone nuts. I do hope Stern throws them a bone and doesn't make some of the more innovative potential too big of barrier to be used. I'd love to be able to message operators and let them know something on a particular machine is not working right and for them it'd be great if those "bug" reports can be tracked in a sensible manner.

Well you could potentially offer credits across different titles from the same operator (be it at one location or multiple), which is cool and can’t be done now.

Machine owners really should get a year or two thrown in for free. Make the determination then if it's worth it to continue.

Some original source of images used elsewhere.

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I like how Lyman's is featured (Blackcat too). I miss living down the street from that place. Such a great pinball focused bar.

So just logged in and locations are popping up (three). I see you @flynnibus! Sadly your game is 854 miles away.

I hope there is an API that something like Pinball map can hook into. Would help them augment their database with verified games on location. Also think the locations should be filterable and listed in order of closest to your home location (or even current location). Stern are you listening?

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Also this community hates when things don't change and adapt with the times. So it's a really damned if you do damned if you don't.

Seems weird there are no connected Mandos at expo. But I guess it lists coming soon...