User-Created Tournaments - Why Not?

[HotHamBoy]

I think something that could add a ton of value to The Pinball Arcade would be the ability for users to create and join User-Created Tournaments. A user could create a tournament like a lobby, private or public, select the tables and the rules. Players could then join (until the limit of players is reached, if there is one) until the cut-off, which could be a matter of hours or days. Players could create tournaments with different rules, like the standard High Score set Farsight runs, or something more exotic, like PinGolf, where the object is to hit a target score in as many balls as it takes, with each table representing a golf hole and each ball representing a stroke. Then users simply browse the open tournaments or create a new one.

Why not, I say?

 

[Xanija]

It's not like nobody ever came up with the idea (no offense). I guess it's a matter of resources & priorities, simple as that.

 

[HotHamBoy]

It should be a priority to add more gameplay value for users beyond asking them to pay for more tables.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

It should be a priority to add more gameplay value for users beyond asking them to pay for more tables.

Paying for more tables is the only way they get money. Adding new game features takes time away from adding new tables. User-created tournaments would be an enormous amount of work to implement, both on the front end and on the back end (have you ever been a software engineer or systems architect or database admin or sysadmin? I'm thinking not). There's zero chance of anything like this ever happening, unless you want the price of tables to double and the release schedule of tables to slow down to 1 every 2 months, and even then it moves the chance of something like this happening from zero to a snowball-in-hell's chance, because it would get lined up behind the already very long list of requests and bug fixes.

 

[invitro]

Go get 'em, Eldar.