My guess is that JJ has now run into the same problem that WG in Aus faced - obtaining a viable short term semi-skilled workforce who can build and put together 1000 plus machines in a 6 month timeframe.
They both have the capital to get third parties to manufacture parts - what they don't have is the labour force to assemble said parts into a fully working machine on a mass production scale.
I think that is the reason we have not seen a complete version out in public yet. I am certain that software/gameplay wise it is ready to go but the minute a finished version shows up online, everyone will have JJ on a much stricter completion deadline (and at that stage there will be little other reason than "manufacturing problems".)
One of the reasons that IPB were able to get BBB out the door is that they had a lot of free help on their assembly line from the pinball community in the US. That was how they beat the Europe ROHS deadline and got those machines finished.
Can you imagine either WG or JJ asking for help from their respective local pinball communities on an assembly line?
that is certainly a good point, and if you can survive failure, its a good learning curve, they are in uncharted waters i am sure. any buisness owner knows what it is like to be over your head and faced with the sink or swim scenario.
the success also does have allot to how the pinball communty will react to delays as to if he will get a chance to learn and improve. if people are impatient and not fair about it. then there will be another failed company for sure.
i do recon if people beleive JJP has something to offer the pinball world, then you would hope they dont get to carried away and demand heads to roll. you might miss out on something in the future. who knows
bashing the guy or putting big pressure on him doesnt help some one get out of a situation, some times the best way to get what you want done is to relax and let the guy sort to kinks out.
Im sympathetic for him on this, as i know what its like in buisness, having the best of intentions and getting snowed under. and it only takes one set of errors to make you look like a goose, you just need to give him time to redeem him self.
keep in mind, develop a new pinball,
create an entire factory with tooling to build them on large scale,
have to train and learn on the fly an entire work force, when you have never done it before
and keep the funding up would be a huge task, it would be a huge killer for an brand new fully indepentant company to undertake whilest keeping the investers aka you happy. it should relistically take a few titles before you get that 100% right
