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<blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 169411" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>There isn't enough demand for EMs to make business sense. They take the same level of work to model and digitize as any other machine, but there's no way any EM would sell as much as a more modern table.</p><p></p><p>Tech isn't any limiting factor. Scripting an EM's rules is not hard. Farsight has already done that for several tables, accurate enough to be fully playable if not always perfect.</p><p></p><p>Everybody wants <em>some</em> EM, but everybody wants <em>their</em> preferred EM. Lots of people want Slick Chick, Fireball, Abra Ca Dabra, Atlantis, Space Mission, Aquarius, and so on... but everybody wants a <em>different</em> one out of that list. Combined as a class or new product, all those EMs might come near a modern machine for sales... but that's six tables worth of labor, not one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vikingerik, post: 169411, member: 3745"] There isn't enough demand for EMs to make business sense. They take the same level of work to model and digitize as any other machine, but there's no way any EM would sell as much as a more modern table. Tech isn't any limiting factor. Scripting an EM's rules is not hard. Farsight has already done that for several tables, accurate enough to be fully playable if not always perfect. Everybody wants [i]some[/i] EM, but everybody wants [i]their[/i] preferred EM. Lots of people want Slick Chick, Fireball, Abra Ca Dabra, Atlantis, Space Mission, Aquarius, and so on... but everybody wants a [i]different[/i] one out of that list. Combined as a class or new product, all those EMs might come near a modern machine for sales... but that's six tables worth of labor, not one. [/QUOTE]
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