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Why I Bailed on Stern Pinball

By freakandgeek

4 years ago


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    #90 4 years ago

    While I’m not happy with Stern quality or practices & don’t buy their games anymore, your premise reeks of entitlement. You feel entitled to buy a Stern game & profit later. You’re not owed that from any new product. Collectibles become collectible organically due to the passage of time. Time will tell if something is appreciated & desirable years later. You can’t manufacture collectibility, despite marketing and hype.

    You’re comparing a hobby and a business. What you do: play games, fix up broken games and sell them for more, that’s a hobby. What Stern does is a business. Your interests are not aligned. Too often people who buy new games consider the new pinball companies part of “the hobby”. They’re not.

    As for Vaults, they’re fair game. The only games promised to be limited are Limited Editions. Iron Man was never an LE, no one has a right to expect more can’t be made.

    #105 4 years ago
    Quoted from freakandgeek:

    I am not entitled to anything. But their change in production means their games are of little interest to collect. I also firmly believe they could do better if they would stop rerunning machines.
    Sure there are those that will always buy these things new. But other people need to be convinced that they have to get something or they are going to miss out. It’s marketing 101.

    They follow that marketing by making LEs. LE means limited edition. That’s your only guarantee that a pinball machine will be potentially “collectible”. Why would they stop re-running other machines? That makes zero business sense. Again, Stern isn’t “a hobby”. They’re a business. If selling more non-LE games is good for business, your interests as a “collector” are irrelevant.

    #136 4 years ago
    Quoted from jwilson:

    He has his opinion and no amount of logic is going to sway him from his argument. He didn’t come here to discuss anything, he came here for a pat on the back and an echo chamber

    Exactly. There’s no conversation here. Just a lecture about greed from a greedy person who can’t greed anymore with Stern games. Best advice in this thread is to drain it.

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