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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joeblow" data-source="post: 278883" data-attributes="member: 2178">I'm on PS4, and the only way to play the licensed tables used to be through TPA. With that said, I stand by every syllable I posted - that the technical handling of the game platform by Farsight on the system was 100%, USDA Choice, hot garbage. Pinball at its heart is an interactive audio/visual rush of an experience. And the way that FS treated it *for years!* is an absolute embarassment to the gaming industry. Sure, there have been plenty of bad and buggy games released for decades. But with TPA, not unlike games in the MMO genre or other long-running titles that constantly sell new DLC  content, they left the major bugs in *and even created new ones!* all while adding new content for purchase to support the title. TPA launched on the system with an embarrassing audio bug that made he game at times sound like it was made on the Colecovision from the 80s. The raspy, scratchy SFX was denigrating the experience of playing "real" tables, yet Farsight did nothing about it !FOR YEARS! while still collecting money for new content they put up. Finally they fixed it, right? Well, on the day that patch came, they screwed up the lighting of various tables! It's been years since THAT crazy issue has been festerng unaddressed, and to top it off, another recent patch screwed up the sound again on some tables. Even new tables were released suffering from some of these problems. So as a genre that depends crucially on the audio/visual experience being at least presented in a semi-competent manner, the game has been hot garbage every single day of its existence, depending on your system. For that reason, I couldn't care less about playing the coulda/woulda/shoulda game by asking what if some other company got the license long ago. Since no other publisher has been that abusive to any game (that they still propped up to sell new content) for as long as FS, I am not exaggerating when I say I would've welcomed the news that Fisher Price stole the license from them in their attempt to entering the video game business. At least a new company starting at square one without the dirty after-taste of FS's skanky business decisons is a much better position than suffering with their abominable treatment of the licences for the last few years. By far, FS is the worst publisher of any franchise I've ever experienced after years of gaming, and it's not even close. I celebrated the day it was announced the Williams and other company tables were not allowed to be tortured under them any more; hopefully the day comes where the remaining licences follow suit and there is at least a chance they'll be picked up by a company that actually tries to get the basics squared away while continually asking for our $$$.</blockquote>

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