sosage
Well-known member
I disagree.
What Stern did with the Tron LE and the fact that it is such a big hit and the prices being so high is to have this in the back of everyone's mind when the next LE is released "oh, I better pre-order the LE or I won't be able to get one and it will be hard to get later and the price will go through the roof like it did with Tron LE".
Lots of people will have that mindset.....despite what has happened with TF LE.
OMFG I'm gonna rant:
It's short sighted (and personally, kind of dumb). Stern and distributors are banking so hard on the collector community and our gullible willingness to drive prices sky high, when that market is so small in comparison to who they should be really trying to attract to their product. It snags a couple hundred blind pre-orders from a handful of wealthy fools (no offense) frightened to miss out on the next table, while giving up on attracting a much wider audience.
They should have produced that machine to wind up everywhere on the damned planet. They really should have given the Pro models EL wires as well, as much as LE owners will probably disagree. That wire is such a no-brainer fluff addition to the game. I don't see how Joe Blow could possibly ignore a Tron machine on route with those ramps glowing like that.
On topic, people who own Tron shouldn't regret it. Fuck the "resell value" issue (so tired of that crap butting in when discussing good/bad games). It's just a great fucking game. The only thing I hate about LE's that started with Tron, which became slightly worse with Transformers and full blown with AC/DC is adding major gameplay elements between Pro and LE. If collectors want to pay extra for an LE with special toys and lights, fine, whatever. Cool. I get it. Paying more in order to play the true or finished version of the gameplay, however, is bullshit.
It's marketed like the gameplay is a bonus for dropping the cash, but it is coming off more and more like people buying/playing on Pro's are given an unfinished game design...because they didn't cough up cash. That's such a shitty direction for pinball game design to go in*.
Sometimes modern pinball is awesome. Sometimes it makes me sick.
*and before someone says, "Video games do it with DLC", video games by their nature can be upgraded/patched (doesn't make it any better). You can't saw and bolt in the lower playfield on AC/DC just because you bought the Pro and want to pay the difference to upgrade to the LE gameplay.
