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Message: <blockquote data-quote="msilcommand" data-source="post: 285057" data-attributes="member: 7642">Exclusive digital licensing kills healthy competitionExclusive licensing in digital pinball kills competition, which slows progress in digital pinball. These antiquated, myopic licensing practices have been slowing and stunting digital pinball for far too long. Imagine where digital pinball would be if Farsight and Zen and whomever else had all been licensed to build and sell digital replicas of the same tables 10 years ago, competing with each other to make the best and most desireable version of each of those tables, and the best gameplay and accoutrements around them. Would we still have TPA with a Windows XP user interface, no online matching or multiplayer to speak of, and awful inconsistency across platforms? If Farsight hadn't had exclusive licenses, and had been competing all of those years, where would they be right now: facing extinction, or standing tall and confident on top of years of competitive innovation and progress?What needs to happen to change the outdated licensing practices, mindsets, and laws that created this? Sure, Zen is innovative now, impressive, pushing the envelope, but if Farsight sinks, Zen will be on the same lonely island, without competition in licensed pinball simulation, and could very well fall victim to the same mistakes Farsight made.</blockquote>

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