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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EldarOfSuburbia" data-source="post: 243649" data-attributes="member: 4106">Well, the forward revenue stream post-TPA has been sorted, because the deal they have with Stern will keep going as long as Stern keep making new pinball tables.  It won't be one a month, nobody knows what the schedule will be with mixing in new tables and old ones where the licensing can be tied up.As for why they needed to push the new UI hand-in-hand with Season 6, you need to go back to how they handled new seasons with the old UI: they literally had to hard-code all the buttons and shoe-horn stuff into the old UI every time a new season rolled around.  Therefore my assumption is, they did zero work to implement Season 6 in the old UI, and moved forward on the new UI.One unforeseen setback later (which will teach them the benefits of off-site backups and a proper disaster recovery plan - been there, done that, got the t-shirt [actually it's a plaque!]) and they're backed into a corner working against the clock to get the new UI back up to at least stable, non-crashing, status and get the first table of Season 6 ready.They are stretched thin, they are trying to support too many platforms, they are also getting pulled out of their comfort zone by the Stern deal (see: SPA Gear VR release), and they can't easily hire new permanent staff and either can't or won't hire contractors who will work off-site to get them through this current patch.  It's also noticeable that a few voices we heard from on a regular basis have gone quiet; whether they're too busy to comment on the forums any more, or they've quit, is anyone's guess.</blockquote>

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