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i got prices and an "add funds" steam prompt like normal when i hit buy. something seems to be broken on your end
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I got it. They never bothered to add new currencies to the game. They did it (albeit very late) on the steam store but not in the game. Great company, will be sorely missed.
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May 14, 2018 21:44
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 they might be able to fix it if you email them but its farsight so who knows
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May 14, 2018 21:46
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I'd post on the pinballarcadefans forums but I think they banned me for pointing out a bug or something.
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May 14, 2018 21:48
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What are the best tables on Pinball Arcade? I heard the license is lapsing next month or so and I already have the season 1 tables, but I only got the budget for another pack. Which one should I go for? I heard the one with the Adam's family is pretty good.
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May 16, 2018 13:20
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Uncle Kitchener posted:What are the best tables on Pinball Arcade? I heard the license is lapsing next month or so and I already have the season 1 tables, but I only got the budget for another pack. Season 3 and Season 4 are both really solid, but yeah Season 4 would probably be the way to go if you're buying only one. There's not a single weak table in that season IMO
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May 16, 2018 13:26
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Very nice. I found the season 1 tables to pretty much all fun tables. Anything in Pinball FX worth checking out? I only bought the Bathesda tables, but I don't know about the Alien and Predator ones.
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May 16, 2018 14:10
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Got a speaker mod kit and mirrored side blades for my TNA. https://www.facebook.com/SpookyPinball/videos/1768332596561293/
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May 16, 2018 17:10
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I purchased all the iOS tables I have through the App Store and those purchases are all tied to my iTunes account. I only bought Table Packs for PC through Steam, never through Farsight, so my purchases are saved by Valve. I have everything downloaded and backed up to be safe, I can only hope that all the tables can be restored in the future. The only ambiguous table is TotAN, but I bought the pro version so here's hoping it stays. Of course, Farsight is being true to form by being discombobulated and posting contradictory messages on multiple outlets about everything.
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May 17, 2018 21:36
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Trip result: God drat, does Star Wars have a lot of high scores. Never had to make a video of my high scores before. I still haven't really worked out how half the poo poo in Star Wars works. I am at least now able to move my multiplied shots around as needed, and I have managed to play all four of the major modes in a game, which was nice. Still, in my best game (3.7 billion), I somehow ended up with a 1 billion Death Star score, which I cannot explain in the slightest, especially since I didn't even complete the mode. I did complete Tatooine once and got a Victory Multiball, and my final Tatooine score was really small in comparison. Guess the multipliers are really strong. This will require more playing on my part to figure out.
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May 18, 2018 20:28
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I've finally done it. Bought my first pin. It's a 1973 Bally Time Zone, non-working but all the plastics are intact and most of the decorative bits still look great. Some rust on the metal, some real dirt on the playfield, and God only knows what's going on in the pit of hell underneath, but I'm really looking forward to jumping in and learning a lot about pinball/EM repair. It's my summer project, basically.  I've just started with some Novus 1 and Magic Eraser on the plastics because I want to clean it good before I start to troubleshoot the electrical, and god drat, that poo poo works.  
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May 20, 2018 14:49
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Uncle Kitchener posted:Very nice. I found the season 1 tables to pretty much all fun tables. all of the FX3 tables are decent to really good except Civil War (it's trash) and V12 (it's old and janky). Choose an IP and go to town. My favorites are Fear Itself, Mars, Tesla, and X-Men.
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Yeah, PFX is perfectly fine. Tables take way, way longer than the PBA ones but that's because they weren't designed to eat quarters. Also PFX has godlike leaderboard features like it shows you which steam friend's score you're about to beat during play, that kinda thing. It's a slick game compared to barely working PBA.
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Have to wonder why PBA even bothered to put itself on switch when all the good tables are gone. Is there any talk of importing older stuff to FX3 on switch like the Marvel tables? The selection on Switch is kind of small so far but I'd love to play Fear Itself and Spiderman on it again.
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DLC Inc posted:Have to wonder why PBA even bothered to put itself on switch when all the good tables are gone.
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DLC Inc posted:Have to wonder why PBA even bothered to put itself on switch when all the good tables are gone. The game app was on the Switch before the rights holders refused to allow a renewal. It just so happened that their Switch port also really sucked and was broken, so when they pulled it to fix it the rights issue came up so they just released the game back on the Switch with the Bally/Williams tables already taken out. e: Or for all I know they may have pulled it specifically because the rights holders refused to license the tables for a new version. That might've been how they found out about the Bally/Williams rights holders not wanting to go forward with loaning their tables out for TPA.
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King Vidiot posted:The game app was on the Switch before the rights holders refused to allow a renewal. It just so happened that their Switch port also really sucked and was broken, so when they pulled it to fix it the rights issue came up so they just released the game back on the Switch with the Bally/Williams tables already taken out. I listened to the Blahcade podcast interview with Bobby King of Farsight today, he said they knew the license was running out but fully believed they had the right to include the Williams tables in it as long as it was still before the deadline. They put the game up and got nasty calls from Williams' owner's lawyers, and took it down rather than deal with lawsuits and possibly having Pinball Arcade locked out on every platform. It sounded like they've known since January, but that's me reading between the lines.
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elf help book posted:I listened to the Blahcade podcast interview with Bobby King of Farsight today, he said they knew the license was running out but fully believed they had the right to include the Williams tables in it as long as it was still before the deadline. They put the game up and got nasty calls from Williams' owner's lawyers, and took it down rather than deal with lawsuits and possibly having Pinball Arcade locked out on every platform. Bobby also said he expects some sort of announcement from WMS in the beginning of July, after the FarSight contract expires. Maybe a new developer, maybe something else entirely. My gut feeling is they just don't make enough money from it to be worth the hassle of negotiating it every few years, and they'll just let the IP rot.
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I mean if they can get the liscences there are a bunch of really great Sterns they can add. Alas most of them have gently caress off crazy expensive IPs attached to them though.
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Supposedly the IPs that Stern licenses for its new tables include the rights to recreate them virtually as well. This was the whole point behind Farsight creating Stern Pinball Arcade, but considering that seems to be abandoned... 
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May 22, 2018 04:17
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They've said the next season is bringing Stern into the mothership fold.
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Well, they'll have to; PA won't survive on Gottliebs and the few DE/Sega tables they can wrangle the licenses for.
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i would love for them to do wizard of oz
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Awesome! posted:i would love for them to do wizard of oz Hell yeah for sure.
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Awesome! posted:i would love for them to do wizard of oz that table is crazy
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Awesome! posted:i would love for them to do wizard of oz
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Awesome! posted:i would love for them to do wizard of oz
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Does anyone in the thread act as a pinball operator? I'm curious about how it goes as my area is largely barren of machines aside from a few barcades. I know I'm not going to retire from the income, but it wouldn't be nice to have some bonus money coming in if I get a good deal/location.
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Star Trek getting a Vault Edition rerelease from Stern! https://www.facebook.com/sternpinball/posts/10156524711514244
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DeNofa posted:Does anyone in the thread act as a pinball operator? I'm curious about how it goes as my area is largely barren of machines aside from a few barcades. I know I'm not going to retire from the income, but it wouldn't be nice to have some bonus money coming in if I get a good deal/location. I do with a buddy of mine. I know most of the brewers in town so as they’ve all decided to open breweries we’ve slowly started adding games. It seems to be a good fit and there are 3 more opening this summer that want games. It’s fun if you are good at working on them but is a lot of work. Basically it just pays for the hobby and gives you a place to publicly play and host leagues and tournaments. Don’t expect much in earnings for the first year or two if there isn’t much of a scene in town. We were the only decent machines in the whole city when we started like 4 years ago and it’s just taken off in the last year. Now there are multiple barcades and the largest pinball only arcade in the entire Great Lakes region in our city. I can answer any questions, but here are a few things I’ve learned: - Place at locations where you know the owners, or at least the management, on a somewhat personal level. Otherwise it can be hard to get in to service during off hours, get updates on service issues and games can go missing way too easily otherwise. - Don’t share your keys with anyone, even if they are your friends. It’s a cash business and the credits are all you have. Giving those out will seem harmless to them but is a huge loss to you. I’ve had to take keys away from a long time friend and it sucked bad. - Do not go above a 75/25 split. Machines are more expensive than they’ve ever been and driving around to service them is a huge expense. If the location lets you swing it do no split. Their perk is it gives people something to do and keeps them there drinking beer for longer. Look for locations that value that, if they have other sorts of games and frequently run activities they will probably be a good fit. - Partner up with someone if you can. Things will go down at horrible times and it’s good to have two people sharing the service. It also helps spread out costs and it’s nice to have someone to bounce ideas off and vent frustrations to. There is absolutely no way I would do this alone. - Insist on having a webcam on the games when you are negotiating a new location. People will frequently not report problems and will just shut a game off and it could be off for days without your knowledge. It’s also helpful to have them all on smart switches so you can power cycle them and set the timers so you don’t have to count on the staff to turn them on and off. - Put bill validators in the games. Change machines run out of quarters and are a pain to refill. It’s also a hell of a lot easier and lighter to deal with bills when you cash out the machines. They don’t jam like coin mechs either, just make sure that on games priced less than a dollar you put a price break at an even number of dollars. On my 75¢ games I do 3 games for $2 so people aren’t left with partial credits. - Keep your games clean and operating 100%. It’s good to have a spare game too so if something goes down for a while you can swap it out. Locations do not like having dark machines taking up space in their business, and players lose faith in you if it happens too frequently for too long. - Put security bars on. We have proprietary keys for our doors and still run security bars to keep the pry bars out and protect the coin doors from kicks and knees from aggressive players. - Run tournaments and leagues as frequently as you can. This is a shitload of work, so outsource it to a local player who’s into that kind of nerdy stuff if you can. - Always buy more than one of replacement parts. Shipping and waiting for parts is an absolute killer. - Don’t get personally attached to games. If it ain’t earning, move it to another location. We try to keep games at a location no less than 6 months but no more than 2 years. If it doesn’t earn at any location sell it and get something fresh. - Play test them thoroughly, location play will put a spotlight on any potential problem area. You won’t believe some of the poo poo you see happen in the wild. - LEDs are mandatory, even in the backbox. If a display goes out, put in a low voltage LED one. The heat and draw of incans is huge and makes everything crispy. You can run a lot more games on the same circuit this way. - Try to keep active on social media. Make a page and post about anything and everything Pinball related in the area. I need to be way better about this but I at least try to let people know when service issues are resolved, new games arrive, code updates and give big shout outs to all out tournament winners. I also have a simple website for people without social media to access FWPinball.com - Most importantly, stay friendly with your players and the staff at locations. Tip well and share credits when you are there. They will bring their friends in to play and if/when something goes wrong they will let you know right away. If they really like you they may even clean the glass for you from time to time. tonedef131 fucked around with this message at 23:02 on May 24, 2018 |
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I've never heard of this company but it's already sold out. Stern is making them. http://www.supremenewyork.com/shop/accessories/hohen3zr2
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Niwrad posted:I've never heard of this company but it's already sold out. Stern is making them. This looks suspiciously like Terminator 2.
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Deviant posted:This looks suspiciously like Terminator 2. It’s the same layout as the Spider-Man home version.
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May 25, 2018 04:11
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They made 200 and sold out in seconds. That's some brand loyalty I guess. They were also selling that thing for over $9000. It kind of looks cool but it looks like a stripped down pro. Can't cost much to make.
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Niwrad posted:I've never heard of this company but it's already sold out. Stern is making them. looks like a pinball machine for people who dont really play pinball.
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I hate people that buy SUPREME. I’ve never met anyone that has, but if I did I’d imagine I’d hate them.
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tonedef131 posted:I do with a buddy of mine. I know most of the brewers in town so as they’ve all decided to open breweries we’ve slowly started adding games. It seems to be a good fit and there are 3 more opening this summer that want games. It’s fun if you are good at working on them but is a lot of work. Basically it just pays for the hobby and gives you a place to publicly play and host leagues and tournaments. Don’t expect much in earnings for the first year or two if there isn’t much of a scene in town. We were the only decent machines in the whole city when we started like 4 years ago and it’s just taken off in the last year. Now there are multiple barcades and the largest pinball only arcade in the entire Great Lakes region in our city. This is a good post. I've saved it in the event I ever start collecting arcade games or pinballs and I get an urge to monetize them in the far future.
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Can someone explain what exactly that is to someone who has no idea what that is
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bewbies posted:Can someone explain what exactly that is to someone who has no idea what that is The Supreme table? Stern took this:  And made this:  Years later they added this:  To get this:  At the same time, they stripped that down and also made this:  They've now subtracted out the theme and artwork, jacked the price to a comical level and you're left with Supreme pinball. Basically Stern has pulled a pinball version of a fool and their money getting parted.
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bewbies posted:Can someone explain what exactly that is to someone who has no idea what that is Supreme is some sort of street wear brand that can literally put their name on anything and sell it. They sold red construction bricks with their name on it and sold out.
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