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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 109071" data-attributes="member: 1047">If Stern can't sell their pins because some $8000 MM reproduction is sucking away all the buyers, there's something critically wrong with Stern and other pinball manufacturers. If reproductions really start killing sales of new designs, then there's really something wrong. Like maybe the new designs, or the table feel just isn't there. And I notice how all the new designs are licenses - sure they bring in the money (and repros will have a hard time reproducing licensed tables - we know T2 is dead now, and I'm sure STTNG and TZ are probably going to be quite difficult).And pinball's been down this route before. The problem stemmed from operators who refused to spend money on table maintenance and let the tables rot until the point where Williams exited and Stern was left. The early 2000's pinball was basically dead, it's just the mobile revolution brought it back.And look at the flip side - if people who wanted MM spent $15K for it, it means they really wanted it, and that extra money was given to the seller and not spent on a new table. Now, you can buy it for $8k, and have $7k left over for a new table.</blockquote>

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