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<blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 233249" data-attributes="member: 1047"><p>Actually, each Pro Pass is around $40/platform/season, so the two pro passes by themselves are typically worth $80.</p><p></p><p>And iOS season passes aren't disabled. You're just not allowed to ask for them before customers know what they're getting. For example - you can buy season passes for seasons 1-4 (they stopped selling them before during season 3) because all the tables in all the season passes are known. When Season 5 is complete, you can buy the season 5 season pass/pro pass as well.</p><p></p><p>But Farsight has another way to unlock tables and that's through your Farsight/Pinball Arcade (Pinball Analytics) account - when you log in, you unlock everything you own. For Season 6 passes, that just means when the app logs you in, it says you have a season pass. It's just that since it wasn't purchased through Apple, Apple has no record of it and you will not only have to recover your purchases, but log into your Farsight/Pinball Arcade account to unlock those as well. </p><p></p><p>It's done like it always is - kickstarter table purchases are tied to your Farsight account. It's also how purchases from the Free version of TPA get into the Paid version of TPA - as long as you use the same Farsight Account on both, the two games will sync up on purchased tables.</p><p></p><p>The only time Farsight gives codes out is for the console versions of TPA where neither Sony nor Microsoft allow access to external resources like that, so Farsight can't simply flip a few bits on their servers and give it to you for free.</p><p></p><p>And yes, in theory, Farsight could use it to take payment for TPA instead of using Apple/Google Play/Amazon/Steam/etc to save the 30-50%+ those stores take, but it's a lot more work and the payment back ends and handling refunds and customer service complaints, etc., would just take away valuable developmental resources (and not save much money in the end - the time and effort to develop a secure payment processing backend, handling chargebacks and other issues including ongoing security can easily take a dedicated developer and customer support person. Better to just farm it out to people who do it for a living - Apple/Google/Amazon/Valve and let them worry about it.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worf, post: 233249, member: 1047"] Actually, each Pro Pass is around $40/platform/season, so the two pro passes by themselves are typically worth $80. And iOS season passes aren't disabled. You're just not allowed to ask for them before customers know what they're getting. For example - you can buy season passes for seasons 1-4 (they stopped selling them before during season 3) because all the tables in all the season passes are known. When Season 5 is complete, you can buy the season 5 season pass/pro pass as well. But Farsight has another way to unlock tables and that's through your Farsight/Pinball Arcade (Pinball Analytics) account - when you log in, you unlock everything you own. For Season 6 passes, that just means when the app logs you in, it says you have a season pass. It's just that since it wasn't purchased through Apple, Apple has no record of it and you will not only have to recover your purchases, but log into your Farsight/Pinball Arcade account to unlock those as well. It's done like it always is - kickstarter table purchases are tied to your Farsight account. It's also how purchases from the Free version of TPA get into the Paid version of TPA - as long as you use the same Farsight Account on both, the two games will sync up on purchased tables. The only time Farsight gives codes out is for the console versions of TPA where neither Sony nor Microsoft allow access to external resources like that, so Farsight can't simply flip a few bits on their servers and give it to you for free. And yes, in theory, Farsight could use it to take payment for TPA instead of using Apple/Google Play/Amazon/Steam/etc to save the 30-50%+ those stores take, but it's a lot more work and the payment back ends and handling refunds and customer service complaints, etc., would just take away valuable developmental resources (and not save much money in the end - the time and effort to develop a secure payment processing backend, handling chargebacks and other issues including ongoing security can easily take a dedicated developer and customer support person. Better to just farm it out to people who do it for a living - Apple/Google/Amazon/Valve and let them worry about it.) [/QUOTE]
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