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<blockquote data-quote="wilbers" data-source="post: 276401" data-attributes="member: 7432"><p>How likely is it that Farsight will get a new license from SG, but with different terms than the previous one?</p><p></p><p>One thing we do know now is that they haven't announced a new licensee in the last 6 weeks which reduces the likelihood of that happening somewhat. The other obvious possible revenue stream for SG that doesn't currently exist but could with some effort is a coin-op virtual pinball table with only Bally & Williams tables on it. Maybe from their point of view a license that allows TPA tables to run on it with a re-designed front-end from Farsight (or less likely a different developer for just the UI part) being a condition of a new license and expressly forbidding Farsight to make other coin-ops with Bally / Williams tables makes sense; without trying it, bit of an unknown how big a market there is for it - would seem to be lower risk for operators than a handful of actual pinball machines, and likely not have potential maintenance problems associated with it.</p><p></p><p>Also, with seasons 1-7 gone for good any Bally / Williams tables would be in manufacturer packs instead of season packs so SG would be able to control the pricing on TPA somewhat.</p><p></p><p>I only discovered Pinball Arcade existed on 29th June, came up in Steam recommendations feed through random chance. I didn't buy any season packs (they had already been removed from Steam, only the in-app option available), but did </p><p>get ST:TNG as a single table purchase so at least I could have a proper go on it. Ended up with 35 tables in FX3 instead, but if the others had been available for longer would have added some of those as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wilbers, post: 276401, member: 7432"] How likely is it that Farsight will get a new license from SG, but with different terms than the previous one? One thing we do know now is that they haven't announced a new licensee in the last 6 weeks which reduces the likelihood of that happening somewhat. The other obvious possible revenue stream for SG that doesn't currently exist but could with some effort is a coin-op virtual pinball table with only Bally & Williams tables on it. Maybe from their point of view a license that allows TPA tables to run on it with a re-designed front-end from Farsight (or less likely a different developer for just the UI part) being a condition of a new license and expressly forbidding Farsight to make other coin-ops with Bally / Williams tables makes sense; without trying it, bit of an unknown how big a market there is for it - would seem to be lower risk for operators than a handful of actual pinball machines, and likely not have potential maintenance problems associated with it. Also, with seasons 1-7 gone for good any Bally / Williams tables would be in manufacturer packs instead of season packs so SG would be able to control the pricing on TPA somewhat. I only discovered Pinball Arcade existed on 29th June, came up in Steam recommendations feed through random chance. I didn't buy any season packs (they had already been removed from Steam, only the in-app option available), but did get ST:TNG as a single table purchase so at least I could have a proper go on it. Ended up with 35 tables in FX3 instead, but if the others had been available for longer would have added some of those as well. [/QUOTE]
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