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Quoted from Circus_Animal:This is a ridiculous statement. They were no longer profitable because people stopped playing pinball. Nothing to do with packing features into games.
Well I suppose Stern are the experts when it comes to 'modes that don't work'.
Haha, how true and excellent conclusion 
In Europe here it's even worse since the huge €/USD ratio drop. Me and several friends bought quite a lot of NIB games from 2012 to 2014, but currently, none and no projects.
- bad (Wrestlemania, potentially GoT pro) or average (Kiss) games
- Stern base price increase, what will it be when they finally add the color lcd?!
- €/usd dropped from 1.3 to less than 1.1
In the end, the official imported/taxed price of a GoT LE will be 9890€ here! To give an idea, that's $12,800 at the "old" 1Q2014 exchange rate. It's also, more than 1000€ more expensive than a Hobbit LE official price here and even slightly more than a Smaug gold. I won't start to compare the BoM, and I don't say that the BoM makes a good game but hey, where's the bug?
But , in the end, as previously said, the market will decide, for sure. Currently though, nobody bought the Wrestlemania in the home market here (Met, Star Trek, TWD, Luci were a huge success), and given the look of the GoT pro and the price of the LE, I suspect it won't be a huge success either here.....
Quoted from kaneda:80% of games sold globally go to operators, and for them the cheaper stripped down pro is the way to go. I'm fine with the 3 pin model, but the LE should really mean something. 700 doesn't feel limited.
Not in Europe, even if i don't have the exact ratio. Operators are almost all closed or soon closing.... the home market is alive and kicking though.
About the number of LE's, everybody complained about the 799 ST LE's, now it is one of the most difficult ones to find.
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