Jersey Jack Pinball
company"It's really not like Jersey Jack just crushes Stern on every level."
Jersey Jack Pinball crushes Stern on every level - no competition anymore
"And what I love about that strategy is it absolutely blows up all the parts of this hobby that people hate, which is like you have to be in with a distro or a dealer or you're going to get locked out. Nope, that's gone now. Jersey Jack blew that up."
Jersey Jack's unlimited CE strategy blows up the worst parts of the hobby
"Jersey Jack's new business model is they're going to make as many CEs as people order. Okay, that's great. But that kills like any real collectability. It also will, in the future, hurt the secondhand value of the games"
Jersey Jack's unlimited CE production model kills collectibility
"This is another company where the culture is really in a great place. And it's not a company that's cutting corners. It's not a company that is like removing things from the games or rushing people to get their stuff out. I think the culture at JJP is going to be felt in the future products of this organization."
Jersey Jack Pinball has great company culture
"Somebody else would say, you know, it's good enough. Yeah. It's good enough. It's pinball, you know, it doesn't go up the ramp all the time. Right. It rejects you. Death star shot in the stern just. He doesn't feel that way. Right. He said there's some design on there. It should be reliable and should work."
Jersey Jack Pinball focuses on perfection over 'good enough'
"I'm just thankful that Jersey Jack makes what I still believe is the most beautiful, the most premium and the most stunning pinball machines that have ever been built. It really is on a different level."
Jersey Jack makes the most beautiful and premium pinball machines ever built
"I don't think Jersey Jack can do this unlimited CE thing ever again... You're gonna see a huge depreciation in this game over the years. And it's gonna be a lot like GNR, where you're gonna see them for sale all over the place."
Jersey Jack should stop unlimited CE production to maintain resale value
"I also think Jersey Jack is going to stop with the arcade additions. Nobody bought them. They never want them. You know, Jersey Jack is a high end premium product and nobody wants the base level. There is no such thing as a base level Jersey Jack."
Jersey Jack should eliminate arcade editions because nobody wants base level JJP games
"I understand these Jersey Jack games might not be operator friendly. I've never thought a Jersey Jack game is a good location game. They're more complex. The light boards apparently don't make it after 12 hours."
Jersey Jack games are not good for operators - too complex, light boards fail after 12 hours, better as home games
"Jersey Jack is one of them. I think Sonic the Hedgehog is going to be great. I think it's going to be one of Steve Ritchie's most fun pins ever"
Jersey Jack is in the driver's seat - Sonic will be great and one of Steve Ritchie's most fun pins
"I was talking to someone at Jersey Jack, they're like, we don't care that people know that Steve Ritchie is making Sonic the hedgehog... We're so confident in Harry Potter. We're so confident in Steve's next game."
Jersey Jack Pinball is more confident and transparent than Stern
"100% Jersey jack would execute Star Wars way better than stern... blow away"
Jersey Jack would have executed Star Wars better than Stern
"I still think Jersey Jack's platform is still just levels above everybody else's. But remember, like it's $15,000. Spooky's going to sell you this for $9,999."
Jersey Jack has the most beautiful pinball platform, levels above everyone else
"All these Jersey Jack games for less than $8,000 are incredible buys. Everybody knows that there are some really good deals out there. The sucker move is NIB for 13, NIB for 15. I think it's just a sucker move."
Jersey Jack games under $8,000 are incredible buys, NIB for $13-15k is a sucker move
"the games are finally shooting much better. The games look way better than Stern machines. There's way more you can do on the screen. It's just a prettier machine"
Jersey Jack makes better looking machines that feel more modern and justify higher prices better than Stern
"They need their Gordon Ramsay to go over there and be like you're serving 96 dishes. You're got too much going on you got eight things going on at the screen at once. That's like bringing a Customer eight dishes at once even though they might all be fun. Eating eight things all at once isn't enjoyable"
Jersey Jack needs a Gordon Ramsay to simplify their games - they're serving too many dishes at once like a restaurant with 96 menu items
"I think that is still the main feedback I have for all of these Jersey Jack games. They're all over baked. They're over produced."
Jersey Jack games are over-baked and too complex
"We know that Jersey Jack games just present so much better. I've been hearing from people over there. They've got five more themes. They think are bangers like Harry Potter. That's five more years of this beautiful platform taking sales away from Stern."
Jersey Jack games present much better than Stern, taking sales away
"They have egg on their face. They do because Jack said they didn't use any AI and then Eric said everything was hand drawn and clearly that was not the case."
Jersey Jack lied about AI artwork usage in Harry Potter
"I think Jersey Jack Pinball is incapable of listening to feedback and by that I mean they just need new blood in that company they keep making the same bone head mistakes they keep putting the same team on the field"
Jersey Jack Pinball is incapable of listening to feedback and needs new blood in the company
"The problem with Jersey Jack is always this. They just don't have a chief creative officer. They've got good ideas. They've got bad ideas and everything goes through."
Jersey Jack needs a chief creative officer for better curation
"The people that annoy me the most are not the so-called stern army that's being blamed for pointing out the AI artwork. The people that annoy me the most are the JJP shills that have been saying this game is perfect out of the box."
JJP defenders who say Harry Potter is perfect are more annoying than critics pointing out AI artwork issues
"I think Jersey Jack has also lost a lot of its own fan base over the last four releases. And I think that's why I would say 80% of us don't really have much faith that Jersey Jack is going to nail it."
Jersey Jack has lost fan base trust over last four releases
"if you own a Godfather, Harry Potter is going to destroy the value on your Godfather. It's going to destroy the value on your Avatar"
Harry Potter will destroy the resale value of other Jersey Jack games
"Jersey Jack is the sexiest woman on the planet, right? You just married a bombshell... but historically speaking, Jersey Jack machines have been beautiful women that are horrible in the sack"
Jersey Jack machines are beautiful but historically soulless
"It just feels like it belongs in a casino or in a Daven Busters. But again, we've been giving Jersey Jack this feedback gang for four years now, for four years, and they haven't changed it once."
Jersey Jack games sound like slot machines and they won't change it despite years of feedback
"I think Jersey Jack as a company, overall, as a company never really has incorporated any of the feedback. People have been trying to give them game after game after game."
Jersey Jack never incorporates feedback and has fundamental issues that persist across games
"I think they have the most beautiful games. I think they're always stunning to stand over. Avatar is another stunning game. So is Elton. So we're all all their games are stunning. I think where their games fall down is I think sometimes they lack soul and they lack heart and it just the games just don't click with you the way other machines do"
Jersey Jack games lack soul and heart despite being visually stunning
"They need to go like work at Nintendo for a little bit because I just don't think this company really, truly understands how to digitally and visually story tell... Their user interface, it looks more like Final Fantasy than it does Super Mario Brothers"
Jersey Jack needs to work at Nintendo to learn proper digital storytelling - their games look like Final Fantasy instead of Super Mario
"What I don't like and what I will never like is the sleazy sales tactic they are doing with the collector's addition. They are right now taking nonrefundable deposits on what is being billed as in ultra limited, made to order version. They're lying to us. That is a flat out lie"
Jersey Jack uses sleazy sales tactics with 'ultra limited' collector's edition
"I have a problem with that from a marketing standpoint. I think that is, that isn't cool... I think it's shady marketing. If you don't, you should know."
Jersey Jack's marketing of unlimited Collector's Edition is shady and not transparent
"This is why Jersey Jack always kind of concerns me because like nobody stood over Guns N' Roses and was like, what are you doing, dude? Like nobody stood over avatar and was like, these lower playfields suck. Nobody stood over Godfather and be like, the whole thing is stupid. Nobody stood over toy story for like, we can't make this."
Attack on Jersey Jack for lack of quality control oversight
"I also think regardless of how long it is open, Jersey Jack is not gonna tell us the truth about how many actual orders they got... if they legitimately sell 1,500 CEs, they might just say, hey, we're gonna make 3,500 because that's right around the amount of orders we got, even if they make that up."
Jersey Jack will lie about Harry Potter CE order numbers to justify making more units for years
"Jersey Jack pinball machines used to have the best sound in the world. And that was because of David. And then he left. And then their games sounded like slot machine garbage from a Vegas casino with all of these horrible sound effects and bells and chimes. And everything was just very metallic and tinny."
Jersey Jack's sound quality declined after David Thiel left, describing their games as 'slot machine garbage'
"The reason why I think this game is gonna be mediocre is I think Jersey Jack just doesn't get it. I don't think they get it. I don't think they get how to market stuff. I don't think they have the creative leader over there like George Gomez."
Jersey Jack Pinball doesn't understand marketing and lacks creative leadership
"this company over the last four games has replaced toys with diverters with Vox with other things. But the toys themselves the magical mechs the wow moments really they're not there."
Jersey Jack has replaced toys with simpler mechanisms in recent games
"Jersey Jack is the a prime example of Money doesn't solve the real problems. Money actually makes the problems bigger because my sense when I look at Jersey Jack is it's still a leaderless company. It's leaderless and The decisions that are made at Jersey Jack feel like committee decisions and they don't have a creative Visionary"
JJP lacks creative leadership and makes committee decisions
"Jersey Jack never delivers when the expectations are this high. I mean it. They've never done it. And if the rumor what I'm hearing is true, this is gonna be more like the last four releases. I'm worried that they're not gonna put everything in the kitchen sink into this game. They paid so much money for the license that they might have cut back on the mechanical wow."
Jersey Jack Pinball disappoints when expectations are high and may have cut mechanical features due to license costs
"The reason why, since Guns N' Roses, if you've lifted the playfield on Jersey Jack machines, the reason why comes down to one word, they need to manufacture these. And to make it easier to manufacture, they don't want to make games as loaded, as complex, as tricky to put together."
Jersey Jack simplified manufacturing since Guns N' Roses to make games easier to assemble
"They're gonna collect all of these non-refundable deposits. You're locked in. And then Jack is gonna announce that this is the most overwhelming demand they've ever seen. And they got somewhere around 5,000 orders for Harry Potter CEs."
Jersey Jack will artificially inflate Harry Potter CE demand
"The unfortunate thing for Jersey Jack games is the gameplay is just never been there and Keith for the most part has coded games in such a way that they're overly complex and they lack soul."
Jersey Jack Pinball gameplay lacks soul despite company investment
"Why did Jersey Jack get up there at Texas Pinball Festival and tell us to hold on to your money, people? Hold on, because I got Harry Potter coming."
Jersey Jack Pinball mishandled Harry Potter announcement and timing
"The thing with Jersey Jack and I mean this, they've just never put it all together at once."
Jersey Jack Pinball has the best platform but never puts it all together at once
"The other Achilles heel is that they often tell us they get all of the assets and then you jump on the game. And it's Willy Wonka with none of the assets and it's Avatar with muted clips."
Jersey Jack Pinball needs to avoid another disappointing launch with muted clips like Willy Wonka and Avatar
"how much better D&D is than Avatar? Like, can we actually, can we just state for the record how much better D&D is than Avatar? And Mark's side and nicest guy, he needs to step up. They need to step up... The Avatar's got no toys, like zero toys in it. Zero interactive toys in it"
Jersey Jack engineering needs to step up after Avatar's lack of interactive toys
"I think Harry Potter is going to be the champion of this round of new pinball games easily. And they're going to sell so many more Harry Potter's than Stern is going to sell of King Kong... I think Jersey Jack has heard that feedback and Potter is not going to be Rainbow Puk."
Jersey Jack will dominate Stern with Harry Potter because they understand themes better
"The reason I'm so hard on Jersey Jack all these years is they should have been the chosen ones. They should have been the ones that really ran circles around Stern all these years."
Jersey Jack should have been the chosen ones to dominate pinball over Stern
"It took this company 10 years to finally address having mushy flippers... a lot of people's issues with the feel of a Jersey Jack was the flipper feel and they finally figured out with the I.O. board"
Jersey Jack took 10 years to fix their mushy flipper problem
"This is the most badass ball or move I've seen in pinball marketing in a long time... the biggest ball or move I've seen in pinball marketing ever"
Harry Potter announcing pre-orders a week before King Kong reveal is the biggest ballsy marketing move in pinball history
"No where to be found I shouldn't have to I don't need to fly to Benton Wisconsin to feel like I'm part of the spooky family because they let everybody in. And so this is my thing is like you you can't run your company in this secret vacuum."