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<blockquote data-quote="jhamdotme" data-source="post: 87867" data-attributes="member: 350"><p><strong>Farsight Stars?</strong></p><p></p><p>These quotes are from the <a href="http://digitalpinballfans.com/showthread.php/4780-Terminator-2-Kickstarter-BEGINNING-NOW!!!/" target="_blank">T2 Kickstarter thread</a>. I was going to post this over there, but this idea would probably get buried pretty quickly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is actually a pretty good idea, I think. <a href="http://www.rovio.com" target="_blank">Rovio</a> is leveraging their huge audience to great effect with their <a href="http://www.rovio.com/en/developers/about" target="_blank">Rovio Stars</a> initiative, and I think Farsight could do the same thing here with pinball. I know they don’t have anywhere near the numbers that Rovio has, but I’m pretty sure they’re up there when it comes to pinball. I’m pretty sure that this would be a win win for everyone.</p><p></p><p>And just to speculate some more, perhaps this is the reason why the <a href="http://digitalpinballfans.com/showthread.php/2652-New-hotness-on-iOS-amp-Android-Revenge-of-the-Rob-o-Bot?p=60333&viewfull=1#post60333" target="_blank">long-delayed Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot update</a> hasn’t come out yet. Maybe <a href="http://www.colormonkey.se" target="_blank">Color Monkey</a> has signed a publishing deal with Farsight, and they’ll soon be available as an in-app purchase. This would be amazing, and I’d gladly purchase this table all over again. I mean, I love the current engine that Rob-O-Bot is using, and <a href="http://nena.se" target="_blank">Nena</a> deserves a lot of credit for what they’ve been able to accomplish, but Color Monkey and Nena just aren’t getting the numbers that they need. There are less than two thousand people who have registered scores with Rob-O-Bot on Game Center, all time, and less than fifty people have played it this week. If Rob-O-Bot was available for purchase from inside an Original Tables section in Pinball Arcade, I’m pretty sure that they’d blow past these numbers in a single day. </p><p></p><p>With something like this, Farsight gets a cut of money that they weren’t previously getting in exchange for the attention of their massive audience, and Color Monkey is able to get the funds that it needs so that they can continue to make great original pinball tables. Like I said: win win.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jhamdotme, post: 87867, member: 350"] [b]Farsight Stars?[/b] These quotes are from the [URL="http://digitalpinballfans.com/showthread.php/4780-Terminator-2-Kickstarter-BEGINNING-NOW!!!/"]T2 Kickstarter thread[/URL]. I was going to post this over there, but this idea would probably get buried pretty quickly. This is actually a pretty good idea, I think. [URL="http://www.rovio.com"]Rovio[/URL] is leveraging their huge audience to great effect with their [URL="http://www.rovio.com/en/developers/about"]Rovio Stars[/URL] initiative, and I think Farsight could do the same thing here with pinball. I know they don’t have anywhere near the numbers that Rovio has, but I’m pretty sure they’re up there when it comes to pinball. I’m pretty sure that this would be a win win for everyone. And just to speculate some more, perhaps this is the reason why the [URL="http://digitalpinballfans.com/showthread.php/2652-New-hotness-on-iOS-amp-Android-Revenge-of-the-Rob-o-Bot?p=60333&viewfull=1#post60333"]long-delayed Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot update[/URL] hasn’t come out yet. Maybe [URL="http://www.colormonkey.se"]Color Monkey[/URL] has signed a publishing deal with Farsight, and they’ll soon be available as an in-app purchase. This would be amazing, and I’d gladly purchase this table all over again. I mean, I love the current engine that Rob-O-Bot is using, and [URL="http://nena.se"]Nena[/URL] deserves a lot of credit for what they’ve been able to accomplish, but Color Monkey and Nena just aren’t getting the numbers that they need. There are less than two thousand people who have registered scores with Rob-O-Bot on Game Center, all time, and less than fifty people have played it this week. If Rob-O-Bot was available for purchase from inside an Original Tables section in Pinball Arcade, I’m pretty sure that they’d blow past these numbers in a single day. With something like this, Farsight gets a cut of money that they weren’t previously getting in exchange for the attention of their massive audience, and Color Monkey is able to get the funds that it needs so that they can continue to make great original pinball tables. Like I said: win win. [/QUOTE]
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