This post is gonna get downvoted but I’ll say it anyway. Stern runs a business, not a collectors distribution fan club, not a hobbyist let’s make a really cool one off pin, not a let’s make pinside happy retail shop. Yes you are some of their customers. Yes anytime they do anything that makes you all unhappy it will be whine and complain and product quality .... Their job as a company is to make money. And yes they continue to make money by doing some things to appease their customer, but not everything or even close to everything. If they did that they would be out of business. They are the only pin company that routinely puts out multiple titles a year. So something must be working there. At some point if their quality does continue to decrease and they cut corners too many times and raise prices too much their customers will stop buying their machines. Look at what happened to Bally around mid 80s - their games were atrocious, the company had to sell out. I would be surprised if they did not monitor feedback after each release. But they would be fools to take everyone’s individual opinions and try to satisfy them. They made a calculated decision that prices needed to increase for whatever reason and they are betting that the price increase will not be offset by decreased volume resulting in no change to revenue. I suspect they are entirely right in that calculation. And since I want them to stay in business and continue to put out more titles, I hope they continue to make good business decisions that earn them more money. And further I hope that in earning more money they put out better more and product (grow the business not the bank account) If they don’t grow the business the approach will likely backfire and then they will put out less games due to having less customers.