Season 3 pack removed from all platforms!

[Sean DonCarlos]

We're wandering seriously far afield...let's gently steer a course back to pinball, please...or at least back to liquorice!

 

[netizen]

licorice or liquorice

which one is flavoured with anise?

 

[brakel]

licorice or liquorice

which one is flavoured with anise?

Both. Two different spellings for the same word. Like color and colour. Almost no licorice candy or products contain licorice except for things like licorice root capsules purchased at the vitamin store.

This statement is only true in the US. Much of the licorice candy in Europe contains licorice. I don't know about Canada. In the US the largest use of licorice is as an additive to tobacco products.

 

[PHDrawde]

Reading this earlier today gave me a craving for licorice but when I went to the grocery store to buy some I discovered they don't carry it because hardly anyone ever buys it. Will have to look harder tomorrow.

 

[StarDust4Ever]

Both. Two different spellings for the same word. Like color and colour. Almost no licorice candy or products contain licorice except for things like licorice root capsules purchased at the vitamin store.

This statement is only true in the US. Much of the licorice candy in Europe contains licorice. I don't know about Canada. In the US the largest use of licorice is as an additive to tobacco products.

So if one lives in the US, where do I get real Liquorice candy?

 

[night]

Online: http://www.hollandforyou.com/hollan.../dutch-candy-licorice/alcoholic-drinks-2.html

Look for the brands 'Klene' and 'Venco'. I think we Dutch sell the largest collection of licorice, and if you do a search for online shops, remember that the Dutch word for licorice candies is 'Drop'.

 

[Nightwing]

What about a cup of liquorice tea?

That just sounds wrong!

Anyways,Twizzlers are one of my favorite snacks...

 

[brakel]

That just sounds wrong!

Anyways,Twizzlers are one of my favorite snacks...

Twizzlers are not licorice.

 

[debuggiest]

This is kindof sad news... First they go with the one-table-per-pack model, then they decide to remove season packs. At the end of Season 2, I had a feeling that Farsight was swirling the toilet, while still cautiously optimistic about what tables we'd see in Season 3. Now I think they've really gone and screwed the pooch. I know some of you guys really like Fish Tales and Black Rose, and I'll admit, I like the sounds on BK2000... but effectively doubling the price on (especially) the mobile platforms, and taking away the season packs are really going to hurt in the long run. TPA already has a bad reputation on Steam and the Android Market because people view it as a bait-and-switch due to the purchase model.

That said, I didn't get to purchase Season 3, and I'm not sure I would have yet, even if I still could. $5/month doesn't sound like a lot, but I like to buy the packs because you don't have to worry about plunking down the cash every month.

 

[spoonman]

Twizzlers are not licorice.

I have a pound of these that says otherwise.

Chocolate Twizzlers are where it's at.

 

[brakel]

This is kindof sad news... First they go with the one-table-per-pack model, then they decide to remove season packs. At the end of Season 2, I had a feeling that Farsight was swirling the toilet, while still cautiously optimistic about what tables we'd see in Season 3. Now I think they've really gone and screwed the pooch. I know some of you guys really like Fish Tales and Black Rose, and I'll admit, I like the sounds on BK2000... but effectively doubling the price on (especially) the mobile platforms, and taking away the season packs are really going to hurt in the long run. TPA already has a bad reputation on Steam and the Android Market because people view it as a bait-and-switch due to the purchase model.

That said, I didn't get to purchase Season 3, and I'm not sure I would have yet, even if I still could. $5/month doesn't sound like a lot, but I like to buy the packs because you don't have to worry about plunking down the cash every month.

How is FarSight supposed to be doing a bait and switch with TPA?

 

[debuggiest]

How is FarSight supposed to be doing a bait and switch with TPA?

Don't ask me, I'm not the one making those statements on the Steam discussion forum and the Android market. Feel free to look for yourself.

 

[brakel]

Don't ask me, I'm not the one making those statements on the Steam discussion forum and the Android market. Feel free to look for yourself.

But you're the one spreading the rumor here. The way the online stores are setup it is impossible for a company to do a bait and switch gambit.

 

[netizen]

Don't ask me, I'm not the one making those statements on the Steam discussion forum and the Android market. Feel free to look for yourself.

There hasn't been a mention of "Bait and Switch" since the whole F2P panty twisting back in November. IDK what you're talking about. I just searched the steam forums for TPA

 

[debuggiest]

There hasn't been a mention of "Bait and Switch" since the whole F2P panty twisting back in November. IDK what you're talking about. I just searched the steam forums for TPA

Maybe they went away. It used to be really bad there. Because the game itself is free, but the tables aren't, it gave them something to complain about.

 

[Kolchak357]

I have a candy store near me that sells something called "Australian licorice". it's short thick pieces of licorice with a stronger flavor than a Twizzler. Really very good. I also love those little licorice pipes. They are kind of hard to find now, but I used to get them all the time as a kid and pretend I was smoking.

 

[night]

They are kind of hard to find now, but I used to get them all the time as a kid and pretend I was smoking.

As a kid we had these chocolate cigarets, they looked very real in their package and all, but when you took the paper off it was chocolate

 

[StarDust4Ever]

As a kid we had these chocolate cigarets, they looked very real in their package and all, but when you took the paper off it was chocolate

Nice. Teach kids to smoke and ride the gravvy train for the next 40 years until they die of lung cancer. What do you say? Victim? Nonsense, he chose to do it.

 

[night]

Yeah, but this was the 70s, everybody and his brother smoked in those days.
BTW, it never made me smoke a real cigarette!

 

[Sean]

TPA already has a bad reputation on Steam and the Android Market because people view it as a bait-and-switch due to the purchase model.

I don't see how anyone could view the IAP on Pinball Arcade as a "bait-and-switch" unless they didn't understand the meaning of that expression. People who paid for the season 3 pass are getting it - nobody is getting ripped off here. The paid content proposition in this game is far better than most applications: you pay five bucks you get to play a new game; optionally you can pay more for further game tweaks if you want or ball skins and that's it.

And you'll forgive me doubting anecdotal reports on their "bad reputation" - I'd say the company had already failed based upon Facebook comments, but clearly that's not the case.