Stern Pinball

"You know those three things that Stern puts in the same place in every game? Why can't they put them somewhere else? Why do we always have to have three together?"

Stern always puts pop bumpers in the same boring configuration

"this is bold but I apologize I don't see how anybody can buy a stern LE going forward without limited limited edition features a topper is a must a shaker is a must armor is a must that damn glass that they just created is a fricking must"

"Stern is trying to sell their mid level product at three highest price brackets. They are shoving their mid level product into a flagship cabinet."

Stern's pricing strategy is fundamentally flawed - selling mid-level at flagship prices

"the time period between revealing Jurassic Park and putting pros and boxes and sending them to consumers is insanely fast. And within just a few weeks, I think a couple of weeks, games are already out to consumers."

Stern's speed from announcement to shipping

"you immediately understand why stern pinball is so successful and why Jersey Jack pinball has struggled all these years"

Stern Pinball understands immediate satisfaction better than Jersey Jack

"I think Stern is releasing these games quickly. And I think they're doing it to bury the competition. I really do."

Stern is deliberately releasing games quickly to bury the competition

"Gary should have started a second company inside of stern to make boutiques. Stern platinum. Stern ultra. Stern whatever. Instead he is watering down everything and making a mockery of collectors."

Stern should have created separate boutique division instead of watering down main line

"I also blame Stern that they literally just drop this thing into the world without explaining the concept of this pin that's on them and this is the problem with marketing why marketing and pinball fucking sucks."

Stern's marketing and reveals are poorly executed

"the pace at which stern moves is absolutely ridiculous they really have no competition"

Stern has no real competition due to their consistent release pace

"I think we all at this stage, no for sure, that yes, Stern doesn't test these games long enough before they go into market. They are not playing them, they're not putting these machines on location to go through its paces before asking you for your dollars"

Stern doesn't adequately test games before shipping

"What a blunder by Stern's marketing department. I have to say this. You know that this video is going to go up and you are going to make people critique the artwork for the first time ever. This hand drawn artwork, you are going to make them see it and critique it with low res images that are screen grabbed from this like 8 minute Star Wars video where the game appears in like 15 to 30 seconds."

Stern Pinball's marketing department made a major blunder by revealing Star Wars artwork through low-resolution screen grabs from a video instead of proper assets

"Starn is completely weak. Their model is very precarious... It's like building house of cards with an unsteady foundation"

Stern Pinball has a weak and precarious business model

"everyone knows deep down they just kept this feeling that like on an individual level do you really think that the higher ups and the investors at Stern pinball really give a damn if they lose you as a customer"

Stern Pinball doesn't care about individual enthusiast customers

"The pro games are always more fun than the LE's and the premiums anyway. They flow better. Everybody knows that. It's like a little kept secret."

Pro versions of Stern games play better than Premium/LE versions

"They are about to pull the Steve Jobs and they are about to announce a game and Make that game available not just to buy but also to pick up and take home the same exact day They announced the game this has never been done before in Pinball and this is an amazing feat in Pinball"

Stern Pinball is about to do something unprecedented - announce and release a game the same day like Steve Jobs

"I know I give them crap for you know selling us cheap toppers and putting pieces of couch and games and look they do crappy stuff like that"

Stern does make quality compromises with cheap accessories and components

"If I'm Stern and John Trudeau is found guilty of child pornography possession. Would I release a pinball machine designed by him. Absolutely not. We all know that he's working on a game with his on be right now and that game's pretty far along. I would absolutely start over."

If John Trudeau is found guilty of child pornography charges, Stern should not release his current game in development

"bullshit there is no way stern is going to miss may 4th"

Stern is lying about delaying Star Wars pinball - they won't miss May 4th

"stern needs to learn to do this you just can't have expert pinball players beta testing your machines guys who are constantly nudging and moving and slapping machines you need to bring in a casual pinball player"

Stern needs casual players testing machines, not just experts

"Just not even about this game ladies and gentlemen, this game at this price is a Trojan horse. To make the rest of us feel like these $13,000 or LEs are a good value. To make the rest of us feel like these $10,000 premiums are a good value."

James Bond 60th is a Trojan horse to make other expensive machines seem like good value

"I'd rather join the fang club than the stupid stern insider bowl shit I mean what is bowl shit like I'm gonna pay money to get a fucking Nate shivers podcast like behind a fire wall"

Stern Insider Connected program offers poor value

"Stone on the other hand had a rousing success with Ghostbusters. They followed it up with a sold out Batman 66. Gary is fucking killing it right now."

Stern Pinball is dominating the market while JJP struggles

"Not all the stops because Stern is cheap as fuck. But it will just be another Stern. Crapi-vinyl decals and play feel printing."

Stern is cheap and produces low-quality components

"Stern is the center of gravity for all of pinball. Stern is pinball. I think that's the fairest way to say it. Stern pinball is pinball. Everybody else is kind of like a boutique company trying to do what Stern does."

"we're back once again to the marvel superhero realm. It's like how many of these pins do we need? Then can we get some more variety from Stern pinball?"

Stern needs more variety beyond Marvel superhero themes

"I think they're out of a world of the world, they're out of the original ideas, they're out of it... I think a lot of these guys at Stern, that have just been designing over and over and over again, I mean I think they're like completely out of original creative ideas"

Stern designers are out of original ideas and repeating themselves

"It's like when stern says there are lifestyle brand. Whenever I read a stern press release and like stern is a lifestyle brand, no, you're not a lifestyle brand. You're a fucking pinball company. You're not a lifestyle. It doesn't make any fucking sense"

Stern calling themselves a 'lifestyle brand' is ridiculous

"the Stern Shills right now on Pinside, you know who they are, who are just like it's going to be epic. Don't listen to K-Man"

Attacking Stern distributors and pinside shills for defending Stranger Things

"stern pinball Monday morning needs to make a statement and stern pinball needs to get ahead of this crisis... what they need to do effective immediately is put John Trudeau on an unpaid suspension it's the same way a football team would suspend a player who has accusations of domestic violence"

Stern Pinball needs to immediately suspend John Trudeau without pay pending legal proceedings

"And once again, we got what I consider to be one of the sloppiest and one of the most confusing ways to show people a game... It's so confusing. We have no context about what the game is about yet... it's amateur hour and it's very sloppy"

Stern Pinball game reveals are sloppy and unprofessional, Dwight Sullivan's presentation style is confusing and amateur