The Pinball Arcade ARRIVES ON STEAM...AVAILABLE NOW!!!

PiN WiZ · Oct 28, 2013

Article: The HIGHLY ANTICIPATED Release Of The Pinball Arcade On STEAM Is Set For Nov

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Sumez · Oct 28, 2013

I'd so love to play the PC version, wish it weren't a Steam exclusive

Ripley · Oct 28, 2013

I'm so excited to play it finally on my PC

. I hope, they won't let us down this time

.

Are the tables in demo mode available earlier?

PiN WiZ · Oct 28, 2013

Ripley said:
Are the tables in demo mode available earlier?

I don't believe they'll be available until November 1st.

Ripley · Oct 28, 2013

PiN WiZ said:
I don't believe they'll be available until November 1st.

Jan Duin · Oct 28, 2013

Yay Demo! Will definitely check this out to see if it runs on my old horse of a PC..

Sumez · Oct 28, 2013

Will it be possible to download and play the demo without using Steam?

DaPinballWizard · Oct 28, 2013

No. It is a Steam product. Of course you need Steam.

Sumez · Oct 28, 2013

Well I don't see any reason to DRM the demo, no harm in making it Steam free

Of course, I generally don't see any reason for using DRM in the first place...

Shaneus · Oct 30, 2013

Do we know if there'll be a discount for, say, buying both season packs or both season pro packs? Not that it's not cheap enough as it is (to be honest, I'm quite surprised at the pricing, provided Australians don't get gouged like we have been in the past with certain publishers) but I'm just curious (and a little hopeful!).

bjkman · Nov 1, 2013

Today is the day!!!!!!

DerWitwer47 · Nov 2, 2013

After so much postponing, this new delay is really frustrating! The FS credibility is nil!

Harry Canyon · Nov 2, 2013

I guarantee the PS4 launch will be delayed, also.

LMA · Nov 3, 2013

what do the custom balls look like?

Steven Lucz · Nov 6, 2013

Only slight issue I have with the game on a technical standpoint is the fact that close-ups of some parts of a table (ex. Taxi's Spinout and HH's Cellar although BH's under-playfield runs smoothly) causes slowdowns on my 1.8 ghz dual core laptop with 3 GB of ram and an integrated Intel GPU (minimal settings at 1280x720). I suppose it's because the detail of the objects in frame increases as you zoom in on them but if that isn't true than it seems like the opposite of what bad performance usually involves (being slow when a lot of objects are on screen, but it's not slow this way for me) is happening. I'm sure this is just an optimization issue that hopefully gets fixed.

Steven Lucz · Nov 6, 2013

Sumez said:
Well I don't see any reason to DRM the demo, no harm in making it Steam free
Of course, I generally don't see any reason for using DRM in the first place...

It's obvious why it exists : to prevent or at least limit piracy (can't use every feature with even cracked versions of games). There are plenty of game clients/DRMs out there that are FAR worse than steam, so be thankful TPA doesn't use Games for Windows Live, Origin, or U-Play which are considered far worse than Steam.

mortuus · Nov 7, 2013

Uh why cant u buy tables one by one if u want? u should make this not all tables i wanna play or buy.

Sumez · Nov 7, 2013

Yeah, because DRM totally both prevents and limits piracy. To be honest, I think there are more examples of situations where it's increased piracy (to avoid always-on requirements etc.) than prevented it. Once someone removes DRM, no pirate of the software will even notice that it's ever existed.

GOG.com is doing just fine without DRM. As is the Humble Bundle, which even allows people to pay $0.5 if that's what they want.

netizen · Nov 7, 2013

mortuus said:
Uh why cant u buy tables one by one if u want? u should make this not all tables i wanna play or buy.

As this conversation has been had many times before on many platforms:

The short answer is Because! it has be decided that tables will be bought in packs of two, except for the core table pack, or in season passes.

Think of the "other" table with the one you want as a free gift if you are that offended by it's presence.

DornoDios · Nov 9, 2013

Sumez said:
Yeah, because DRM totally both prevents and limits piracy. To be honest, I think there are more examples of situations where it's increased piracy (to avoid always-on requirements etc.) than prevented it. Once someone removes DRM, no pirate of the software will even notice that it's ever existed.

GOG.com is doing just fine without DRM. As is the Humble Bundle, which even allows people to pay $0.5 if that's what they want.

The licensing agreements Farsight has for the various Pinball tables will not allow the game to be released in any way without DRM. The rights holders of the intellectual property are the ones who stipulated the mandatory use of DRM. So, Farsight has no option here regarding using DRM or not. Either they use it, or they don't release on PC. To release it without DRM would violate the contracts they have signed and leave them open to various lawsuits, additionally it would piss off the rights holder(s) and you would likely see no more tables.

So, it has DRM, nothing anybody can do about it and you will never see a version without DRM on gog.com as per the licensing agreements.

This was all discussed back before Pinball Arcade was greenlit on Steam as many people suggested they use gog.com and they explained why they could not use it, which I summarized above.

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