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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zevious Zoquis" data-source="post: 247365" data-attributes="member: 3250">Sorry, I don't get your point.  How does FS's goal of preserving the history of pinball in any way lock them in to having to constantly upgrade the previously released tables to better and better versions for free?  I have a copy of WPHOF on my shelf across the room there that has an earlier version of several tables in TPA...why the heck did I have to pay again for more modern versions of those same tables?  Because the new versions are NEW builds in a new version of the game.  The tables from the first few seasons of TPA all more or less work fine and look fine (with a few exceptions that would really fall under the "bugs" category of issues).  I played Gorgar for an hour last night - it's a great looking table still and it plays quite well.  It's not perfect but there's nothing about it that renders it unusable.  The machines will always exist in digital form as a "poor rendition" of reality - or at least they will for some time to come.  That doesn't mean FS has to give us free improved versions until they are perfect...And as far as FS's earlier cruder versions depriving us of any chance to have them done right, I doubt it.  Believe me, nobody is going to be preserving the history of pinball in digital form for free and stay in business very long...</blockquote>

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