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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 255028" data-attributes="member: 2300">Here's their mission statement on that: "The Pinball Arcade features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Williams®, Bally®, Stern®, and Gottlieb® together in one game." But "all-time greatest" is subjective. That's why you can go in to a donut shop that says "Worlds Finest Donuts" and to someone they are the worlds finest donuts (e.g. the owners) but you might think they're just ok. I get what you're saying, there's some stinkers in S6, but it's marketing.As far as the table choices being cheap I think there's a few factors that go in to that. One, as mention, the licensing. A table license may turn out to be too expensive to purchase to make it cost effective. Take for example NBA Fastbreak. They would have to pay to use the NBA license, the player likenesses, the commentators for the audio, and if any bands have music on that table would have to pay that as well, on top of paying Williams. Two, the licenses companies that own them may not even be interested. Take the Indiana Jones table. Disney owns the licenses and Farsight has said in the past they Disney is not interested even negotiating with them for it. Can't do much if the original license holders are not interested. Three, the tables are going to depend somewhat on what tables are available at the time of purchase and their prices. Farsight purchases tables like any pinball enthusiast. They go on the market, see what is available, and has it shipped. So maybe they want a Banzai Run but there are none available at the time. Or there is some available but the asking price is way over budget. Farsight has said they had to change their lineup based on what was available at the time. So there are several factors involved in why there aren't certain tables in the product. People here have also suggested they may have run out of Williams table licenses or are in the process of renegotiating so have had to pad with Gottliebs. Although I've never seen Farsight say that so honestly its just a rumor.For the "so cheap they're releasing Pinball Not-Arcade games" the Doctor Who Regenerated table was a Kickstarter bonus. It was used as a reward to help get the Dr. Who table funded. I know for me it helped increased my pledge as I was at $10 with no reason to increase that pledge until they offered the bonus table. Farsight has also said that table does not count against the total number of tables in Season 6. So what harm is it doing? As far as them "quit[ting] while they're only a little behind" that makes it sounds like you can only enjoy the game if your view of a company if their image is untarnished. You must realize that is pretty silly and not a view shared by everyone. Not everyone likes the same thing so while you, and I for that matter, don't care so much some of the Gottlieb tables others really enjoy them. I'm all for them to continue releasing as many tables as possible. There's plenty I've played that I'd love to see in TPA like Solar Fire, Defender, Pinball Magic, Sorcerer, Medusa, Fire, and of course Big Bang Bar. I say keep making them.</blockquote>

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