Quoted from FlippinJB:Agree with you 100%. But in my day, you'd stick a new tip102 or whatever in! I love the new technology in these machines, but if it pops at the drop of a hat - and that costs me 260 quid each time - then that's just not sustainable. Stern should not see the failure of their boards as a revenue flow as people have to buy new ones out of warranty. We all know that things go wrong with electronics, but I firmly believe that all pinball companies should support their customers by minimising the profit they make from essential replacement assemblies like node boards - especially since these seem to be something of a common point of failure, looking at other threads.
From a Stern marketing point of view, I would hope they would realise that if people are routinely encountering problems like this that cost them 260 quid to fix, then it follows that they will be much less likely to buy a Stern game in the future. My Ghostbusters has less than 200 plays on it.
Shit happens all the time and everywhere... My HUO GB has around 5k games played. Nothing major did go bad except for 2 switches...
Quoted from DNO:Node boards don’t fail very often. And this whole conversation has been had over and over.
True, its like reviews on Amazon. If something is bad there is a good chance someone will write a bad review. But if something is good the chances of getting a good review are not as high as getting a bad review. Maybe some operators can share their experience. But the operators I know had very few nodes fails.