I just feel awful. As you guys know I'm a very opinionated person, and I'm not afraid to say how I feel whether that's positive or negative about something.
For the first year, I loved each and every table pack Farsight has released. It was just at the point of insta-buy: I could buy each pack and just know it's awesome. Looking back, the first year and a half of the game was like pure Pinball Bliss. From launch, to Bash and Creature, To Taxi and the Elvira boards, through Twilight Zone and Star Trek, to Attack from Mars, Cactus Canyon, Dr. Dude (one of my favorites, but the first to have a mixed reaction), to White Water, Champion Pub and Whirlwind, Centaur Pinbot... each and every pack was amazing.
Then Flight 2000 and Goin Nuts came out and I bashed the **** out of it. I said it was a stain on the service, I made fun of it, railed on it hard like a bully to a little kid who didn't deserve it. I thought of Goin Nuts as a funny running joke, to the point where two mods had to tell me to cool it with the bashing and jokes. To which I obliged.
But now I see that the sales of that pack were abysmal. Really abysmal. And obviously not the only person who was bashing it. But I feel partially to blame for it's poor sales performance. And being such a staunch supporter of this video game the last thing I want to do is see Farsight fail, and the game fail.
I now feel like I'm holding back now and not saying what I really feel. I do not want to influence Farsight negatively with "bad press". But man, it feels awful holding myself back from saying how I really feel.
It's kinda like on Facebook. How you want to say a rant about what "grinds your gears", or you want to bash something or make fun of something, but you know that you'll offend half your friends or your family will think you're nuts. It's like that with me here now, cause I've been here so long ya'll are like family and this game we are really passionate about, preserving pinball and getting to play tables we can't afford to buy in real life.
What saddens me the most, and is actually the most F'd up thing: I purchased, and played the crap out of Flight 2000! And I actually really enjoy it. Looking back, I find that it's a better table, in my opinion, than Haunted House. And definitely better than T'eed Off. So my constant negative opinions may have swayed someone away from a purchase that might have otherwise enjoyed it. And I just feel awful about that.
For the first year, I loved each and every table pack Farsight has released. It was just at the point of insta-buy: I could buy each pack and just know it's awesome. Looking back, the first year and a half of the game was like pure Pinball Bliss. From launch, to Bash and Creature, To Taxi and the Elvira boards, through Twilight Zone and Star Trek, to Attack from Mars, Cactus Canyon, Dr. Dude (one of my favorites, but the first to have a mixed reaction), to White Water, Champion Pub and Whirlwind, Centaur Pinbot... each and every pack was amazing.
Then Flight 2000 and Goin Nuts came out and I bashed the **** out of it. I said it was a stain on the service, I made fun of it, railed on it hard like a bully to a little kid who didn't deserve it. I thought of Goin Nuts as a funny running joke, to the point where two mods had to tell me to cool it with the bashing and jokes. To which I obliged.
But now I see that the sales of that pack were abysmal. Really abysmal. And obviously not the only person who was bashing it. But I feel partially to blame for it's poor sales performance. And being such a staunch supporter of this video game the last thing I want to do is see Farsight fail, and the game fail.
I now feel like I'm holding back now and not saying what I really feel. I do not want to influence Farsight negatively with "bad press". But man, it feels awful holding myself back from saying how I really feel.
It's kinda like on Facebook. How you want to say a rant about what "grinds your gears", or you want to bash something or make fun of something, but you know that you'll offend half your friends or your family will think you're nuts. It's like that with me here now, cause I've been here so long ya'll are like family and this game we are really passionate about, preserving pinball and getting to play tables we can't afford to buy in real life.
What saddens me the most, and is actually the most F'd up thing: I purchased, and played the crap out of Flight 2000! And I actually really enjoy it. Looking back, I find that it's a better table, in my opinion, than Haunted House. And definitely better than T'eed Off. So my constant negative opinions may have swayed someone away from a purchase that might have otherwise enjoyed it. And I just feel awful about that.
