I know.Īnd sure, it may be cheaper to ship to the UK than say Australia, but what are you expecting different rates to each country for a small company like spooky? Also, it's more than just the cost of the courier as there is more paperwork required. You obviously don't do much international shipping do you.

Obviously I was wrong, kinda glad about that too somehow. I actually was thinking (hoping) a week or two ago that RaM was going to be one of DRs surprises. Most glad also that it is being made by Spooky. RaM could be made in the kinds of volumes Stern or JJP produce, not a Spooky 'volume' theme really.īut still I agree, in essence. 'Tiny fringe' is a fair statment though when producing less mainstream themes like ACNC, TNA, RZ, Octoberfest or Houdini. The wild card here though is that this really doesn't seem to be a 'tiny fringe' type Theme, unlike Spookys previous themes. There used to be blacksmiths on every corner, but now horses are a tiny fringe hobby so there’s a small group of low volume blacksmiths. Think of it like any hobby business that isn’t mainstream anymore.

It’s enough to pay the overhead and hopefully make some profit. Staying small is the smart play - 500 machines a year is a sales target that is sustainable for when the bottom drops out and there’s only demand for boutique games. Despite its current popularity, pinball isn’t a growth industry. They operate at the scale they’re happy with and feel is sustainable. Everyone is going on about how they should staff up and build more games faster.īut what happens when RM is done? Now he has staff he doesn’t want to fire so he’s forced to build that larger number of games going forward, to have the higher overhead, having to maintain that much larger company.

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