Kernersville, NC
Quoted from beelzeboob:I thought the TWIPY awards were just a fun thing with some pretty sketchy results in the past. This year, when Stern won for their STh UV kit instead of people like gouveia and other talented guys here who make games better in their garage, I realized my initial gut reaction was correct.
The STh UV mod isn't a mod if it was planned for the game all along--they even put installation holes in the ramps knowing it was coming. (Even though it IS super-cool.)
I feel bad for all the innovative people who really thought out ways to improve upon things in a game...or add something that was never meant to be there in the first place.
100 percent agree. This is not a mod - it is a game accessory by the manufacturer. It should not have been in the mod category.
And if it technically was a 'mod' the rules need to be made to exclude manufacturing accessories to their own games as a 'mods'.
Even Stern categorizes it as a game accessory. https://shop.sternpinball.com/collections/accessories/game-stranger-things+type-accessories?sort_by=manual
How pinheads actually voted that #1 MOD is very surprising to me. Cool yes - probably should have been in the game anyway - but mod? Nope.
