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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cloda" data-source="post: 290875" data-attributes="member: 7520">I believe Zen made a great decision for their long term benefit but not necessarily for either the traditional Williams only or Zen original only crowds.  If they had it in two separate apps, there is a very good chance that a lot of Zen original players would just have ignored the Williams app and vice versa.  Now they have cross pollination, especially with their strokes of brilliance of having the enhanced graphics (that you can turn off / on instantly), and that you can play the Williams tables with Zen's original physics and all their game modes and power-ups etc.  I come from the traditional Zen only side and properly fell in love with the Williams tables on Classic Arcade because of the challenge it presents me with.  I tried a couple of times over the years, but I just couldn't get into the TPA, so it would have been easier for me to dismiss the Williams tables if they were in a separate app, and I would have missed out ;-).  Similarly, a lot of traditional real pinball players who avoided Pinball FX3 like the plague, now bought into the Zen ecosphere, and from what I have read on this forum and other places, quite a few people realised that there is some fun to be had with Zen's originals, which they never would have done if it were separate apps.  The next logical step for me, for Zen to capitalise on this great collision of opposite worlds, is to produce their next originals with both Zen physics and Classic Arcade (with the flipper physics).  That is personally my hope as I don't have the time anymore to spend hours on single games on Zen's originals even though I still love many of the tables and their designs and themes.Regarding the censorship - there is a good chance Zen didn't anticipate the reaction from the traditional real table guys because many of the Zen traditional guys, like myself, couldn't care less about censorship.  All I care about is how realistic the table play and I can't wait to try out the new flipper physics on the Universal Monsters pack and for it to be implemented in Volumes 1 - 3 (and 4 as they tweaked it more).  I still find it hard to care about it even though I'm happy that they listened to the impassioned pleas and made the uncensored version available for Steam players.  I doubt that they'll ever change Pinball FX3's age rating on the consoles as they have been targeting the game as family fun from the get-go.</blockquote>

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