The Official Latest NEWS And INFORMATION Discussion Thread

[Jutter]

I don't see a T2 or a terminator 2 pinball kickstarter, and only the sucessfully concluded ST;TNG and TZ kickstarters will show up.

 

[Kolchak357]

They announced it will happen, but it hasn't started yet. I'm sure they will wait until PS3 and the 360 get a little caught up before they start the T2 kickstarter.

 

[Richard B]

I was hoping beyond hope the next kick-starter campaign would be The Addams Family.

They've been working on that, but there's too many licensing hurdles, such as rights holders refusing to even talk to FS.

 

[David Pannozzo]

I'm hoping that after DR. Dude and Firepower, that the next 2 tables would be Cactus Canyon and Whirlwind what do you all think. I'm also going to post this on Facebook to.

 

[grashopper]

I'm hoping that after DR. Dude and Firepower, that the next 2 tables would be Cactus Canyon and Whirlwind what do you all think. I'm also going to post this on Facebook to.

Would be a great pack. Maybe too good to pair together.

 

[ravager]

Would be a great pack. Maybe too good to pair together.

Yeah, Whirlwind would need a lesser table beside it. Maybe something else from the PHOF collection. Can't remember which Gottleib tables are in there though, since the resolution on the Wii was inferior to the Williams' tables, I barely ever played that collection.

 

[MontanaFrank]

They've been working on that, but there's too many licensing hurdles, such as rights holders refusing to even talk to FS.

I read the back of my Addams Family DVD and totally understand why we probably won't get Addams Family for a long time. Dang-it Rupert.

 

[Richard B]

I read the back of my Addams Family DVD and totally understand why we probably won't get Addams Family for a long time. Dang-it Rupert.

What does it say?

 

[grashopper]

"The washed out look on some of the PS3 tables is currently being addressed and will be corrected soon."

Great news to hear. Try to squeeze them for ANY news on anything done to Black Knight. The silence about that table really stings

 

[Ark Malmeida]

Wonder what they mean by 'a few release issues' in the following statement:

"FarSight still has a few release issues to work through before releasing the new version of The Pinball Arcade on the Xbox 360. "

I'm happy that they're giving us information, but the (I'm sure necessary) cryptic nature of the XBox statements is maddening.

 

[Richard B]

Tables no longer sold individually? That sucks.

 

[Matt McIrvin]

Tables no longer sold individually? That sucks.

Yeah, though I'm kind of surprised they were sold individually for so long. They're not on XBox, for instance.

 

[Sean]

Hopefully Nintendo will be more flexible in that regard. Although Zen 2's DLC on Wii U is rather clunky, it's not clear how much of that is down to Zen and how much Nintendo.

 

[Sumez]

Wonder what they mean by 'a few release issues' in the following statement:

"FarSight still has a few release issues to work through before releasing the new version of The Pinball Arcade on the Xbox 360. "

I'm happy that they're giving us information, but the (I'm sure necessary) cryptic nature of the XBox statements is maddening.

Hopefully it's a QA thing. Like someone said, to succesfully submit DLC to both Sony and MS, they need to work without issues, like many people are experincing on their mobile platforms, and it's likely that the new publisher is taking care of that.

Of course, it could easily be a ton of other things, like legal disputes and crap like that.

 

[kimkom]

Are FarSight able to tell us if these are issues pre-submission to MS? Or are they issues MS have asked FarSight to address?

 

[Worf]

Are FarSight able to tell us if these are issues pre-submission to MS? Or are they issues MS have asked FarSight to address?

Pre-submission - so their publisher is finding the issues. Given the expense in submitting to MS, I'm sure the publisher is ensuring it'll go through with as few issues as possible.

Because their publisher is making FS keep their mouths silent as to who they are until it's submitted to MS (at which point MS will probably publish something so the secret would be out). Since FS hasn't told us who the publisher is, we can bet it hasn't gone to MS yet.

I'm guessing the reason is it gives a way for the publisher to back out if FS isn't responsible enough to fix bugs and all that - they don't know how good a developer FS is, so FS can't announce that they have an agreement with X until X is ready to put their stamp of approval on it.

 

[Sumez]

That's also the only explanation I can think of, it sounds plausible.

And hell, if QA is really the issue, my hat is off to the new publisher. Too many publishers nowadays just want to ship flawed products for the hell of it, so FarSight could really benefit from a business partner who cares about this stuff.

 

[kimkom]

I'm guessing the reason is it gives a way for the publisher to back out if FS isn't responsible enough to fix bugs and all that - they don't know how good a developer FS is, so FS can't announce that they have an agreement with X until X is ready to put their stamp of approval on it.

Hmm.. I think whoever this mysterious publisher is, they would be more than aware of FarSight's track record and their commitment to TPA, on multiple platforms.

 

[kimkom]

So, I'm fairly new around these parts. When could we expect to see some media for Dr. Dude and Firepower? Or are Farsight pretty random with this kind of thing?

 

[gooche77]

We should expect a gameplay video in a week and the iOS and Android marketplace release in 2 weeks or so.