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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 285208" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>FarSight had no idea Scientific Games had sought out Zen to take over the license, that is true. I think in their own hubris, they just never figured it would be something Zen was even interested in. They were the 'real' digital pinball platform, Zen was the 'originals' digital pinball platform. You can call SG greedy, I mean they didn't even let FarSight put an offer on the table. FarSight themselves though were set to ramp down the number of tables they were going to produce, as there weren't that many WMS titles left that seemed to be worth the development cost. So even if they had been able to renew, I think the output would be what it is now and them just collecting what they could from new consumers. In other words, they were relying on a large content library that never was really theirs to rely on. If someone could explain why they haven't put out any new Gottlieb tables, why even with the Stern license there's been next to no output, I'd love to know. FarSight themselves could be accused of greed, in that they failed to reinvest in their own product, never upgrading the engine, putting the game out on as many systems as possible without fulling debugging, never exploring design of their own tables, and now it withers.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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