Quoted from bigehrl:i don't understand why people preemptively change those out. i get that they break often. but they don't ALWAYS break. and it's just as much work to replace it before they fail, as it is after. may as well ride 'em til they die, and get that much more play out of the part before starting to degrade a new part. makes no sense to me.
It's not preemptive. But they start to go in 250-500 games in my experience. And when I get a new game, that will be like 3 weeks of play. Just being prepared