Quoted from Haymaker:What? Lol this is almost completely Mirco's fault. Holy crap I haven't seen somebody be this wrong about so many things in one post in a long long time. JJP doesn't spec all this stuff out. They say theres a post here, ect. I don't put much faith in the overtightening/hole too big theory either thats already been fairly disproven by people much better versed in playfields than us. Lets not forget we see these same issues on Mirco's other playfields. Pooling under posts. Clear coat flying off in gigantic chunks with small blasts of air, AFM playfields with clear that has flaked off all over, ect. Mirco makes trash. We get it, you don't like JJP, but this is a stretch.
Except it's not. While I don't agree with jimwe5t when it comes to the games themselves, the themes, and/or their playability I think the poster is absolutely spot on here with regards to who's to blame. Yes Micro makes them but JJP KEEPS ACCEPTING THEM AND USING THEM IN PRODUCTION GAMES. Why? Because they have no choice due to the financial entanglements between Micro and JJP which is entirely JJPs fault. IF JJP actually cared about this and wanted to fix it they absolutely could but when the line to buy your defective products wraps around the building and your customers have stockholm syndrome, what's the incentive?
Micro isn't going to start making quality playfields if their reproductions are any indication so JJP has really one choice, find a different vendor and deal with the financial settlement with Micro. But... Again... Why do that if you're bean counting at JJP? Sales have never been better and clearly few seemed to care when they changed their warranty which should have been the final nail but nope... Here we are...
Honestly JJP couldn't have picked a better time in the history of this industry to be so horribly bad as a company... The market has never been hotter, and may never be hotter again who knows, and as such there are a lot of new people in this hobby with cash to burn and an addiction to steel balls and flashing lights... They'll never listen to the warnings and I get why but there are only so many customers with deep pockets and a desire to "roll the dice" that eventually this will end JJP. Unless of course they reverse course now, take the short term financial hit, and actually address this very long standing issue. However, I wouldn't hold my breath...
Jeff