locutus442 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Quote Official Announcement. (WMS) Our longstanding licenses for the Williams and Bally pinball trademarks will finally come to an end on June 30th, 2018. Therefore, after this date tables from these manufacturers will no longer be offered for sale within the Pinball Arcade. However, customers who purchased any of these tables prior to the deadline will continue to own them and have access to them within the Pinball Arcade, and we will continue to support them as we do the other tables in our collection. This change will affect all of our devices and platforms. So if you’ve ever been interested in owning these great tables, please purchase them now, before they disappear! FarSight will continue to release new tables for the Pinball Arcade. We are excited to announce that Season 8 will launch later this summer and will feature all of the recent Stern tables in Stern Pinball Arcade along with several new tables. We’d like to sincerely thank all of our customers and fans over the past decade. Your amazing support of our game has helped build the Pinball Arcade into the greatest pinball simulation of all time. Pinball forever! Quote Everyone, Here's the list of what will no longer be available for purchase after June 30th, 2018. (In no particular order) 1Tales of the Arabian Nights 2Theatre of Magic3Medieval Madness 4The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot 5Cirqus Voltaire 6FunHouse 7Gorgar 8Monster Bash 9Black Knight 10Creature from the Black Lagoon 11Elvira and the Party Monsters 12No Good Gofers 13Taxi 14Scared Stiff 15Twilight Zone 16Star Trek: The Next Generation 17Attack from Mars 18Dr. Dude & HIs Excellent Ray 19Firepower 20Cactus Canyon 21Space Shuttle 22White Water 23Centaur 24PIN•BOT 25The Champion Pub 26Whirlwind 27Terminator 2: Judgment Day 28Fish Tales 29Black Rose 30Black Knight 2000 31WHO Dunnit 32High Speed 33Junk Yard 34Diner 35Bram Stoker's Dracula 36The Party Zone 37Earthshaker 38The Addams Family 39Cyclone 40Jack Bot 41Xenon 42Red and Ted's Road Show 43Safe Cracker 44The Getaway: High Speed 2 45F-14 Tomcat 46No Fear: Dangerous Sports 47Judge Dredd 48Fireball 49Hurricane 50Inianapolis 500 51Eight Ball Deluxe 52Doctor Who 53Swords Of Fury 54Paragon 55Firepower II 56World Champion Soccer 57Fathom 58Spanish Eyes 59Wild Card 60Banzai Run 61Sorcerer Quote WMS Licensing FAQ's 1. Why has the license not been renewed? Whose decision was it? The company that controls the WMS IP chose not to renew our agreement. 2. When will the Williams/Bally tables stop being sold? June 30th 3. Will there be discounts on the tables before the contract expires? If not, why? No, our agreement with WMS prohibits there being any sales on their tables before we have to take them off the market. 4. Will there be any updates/bug fixes for the tables before/after the contract expires? Yes, we will continue to support all of the tables in Pinball Arcade. 5. What will happen to the tables that are already owned (or unlocked, as with the Kickstarter rewards) once the contract expires? Everyone who owns a WMS table will still own it, and have full access to it. We will modify the game via updates before June 30th on each platform so that players can no longer buy WMS tables if they haven’t already. In most cases, if you don’t own a WMS you won’t be able to see that table in the game at all. 6. Would future hardware (iPhones/iPads, Android devices) be updated to allow the Williams/Bally tables to work correctly, or will there be a time when these are completely unplayable? We will continue to support all of the tables in Pinball Arcade for customers who bought them. This includes support for users who need to re-download tables they’ve already bought. 7. With the loss of the Williams/Bally tables, what's the future of the app? Will we see it continued with new non-Williams/Bally tables? Our “Season 8” release will include all of the Stern tables that we’ve done to date for SPA plus a couple more. We will continue to develop and release non-WMS tables. Once the WMS tables are removed from sale, the remaining tables for sale in the game (Stern, Gottlieb, and Alvin G) will be restructured into different packs based primarily on the table manufacture. 8. What's happening with the staff at FarSight? Will there be layoffs? There are no plans to lay off any FarSight staff. 9. Is FarSight working on other projects? Yes, in addition to developing many more digital versions of Stern tables, more Gottlieb tables, possibly more tables from other manufactures, and an awesome 2D pinball experience for mobile, we’re working on a couple new cross-platform games that are yet to be officially announced – primarily for console. 10This sucks, right? We are very disappointed by the WMS license holder’s decision – so it’s not great. But we’ll be working to enhance the players’ enjoyment of all of the tables in Pinball Arcade for years to come. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evertonian Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Would be nice if they dropped the price on all of these before the close date All of the Pinball titles are ratio killers with the constant stream of costly DLC and the rehash everytime a new console arrives Maybe they could do the decent thing and make all the old tables dirt cheap until the end of licence But they wont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeSleep Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Do I just need buy Season 1, Season 2 and base game to get all trophies in PS3/VITA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordzeze Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, JorgeSleep said: Do I just need buy Season 1, Season 2 and base game to get all trophies in PS3/VITA? Yes that is correct. Just be aware that not all tables from Season 2 have trophies (but it is cheaper to buy the season then the tables separately I believe). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kashu_ryo Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 what if i buy season 5, are they all include too? i mean season 5 for ps3 and season 5 for psvita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0t0bl1tz Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 They added new trophies for Seasons 2-6 on PS4 only this January. I don't think they'll ever update the PS3/Vita lists. That would be a pretty mean thing to do right now - forcing us to buy the remaining seasons with no discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0t0bl1tz Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 19 hours ago, kashu_ryo said: what if i buy season 5, are they all include too? i mean season 5 for ps3 and season 5 for psvita Purchases between PS3 and Vita are cross-buy. I bought seasons 1 & 2 on Vita, and they are available to download to my PS3. But you'll have to check each table individually as the game is a mess in terms of table import. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnhallowedBlood Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 (edited) Just checked the store. $30 just for one season bundle? I really hope they put these tables on sale before they delist them, cause there's no way I'm spending $60 for both of the table bundles. Edited May 29, 2018 by xXIrishPride42Xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshir Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 This hurt my wallet yesterday.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucksi666 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Did they stop adding trophies after table pack 15? Just wondering since season pass 2 says something about table pack 11 to 20 and there are no trophies after 15, yet there are so many many more table packs to buy over 20 The DLC is an absolute mess in the store. No definite descriptions, there are two season passes for the same system (and yes, same season), one for 30 Euro, the other for 40 Euro and they both have the very same description Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cris3f Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 0:50 PM, locutus442 said: 3. Will there be discounts on the tables before the contract expires? If not, why? No, our agreement with WMS prohibits there being any sales on their tables before we have to take them off the market. No because we can milk the cow and think we can make a few bucks on a product that was niche and almost dead... Farsight always treated badly european customers. No sales or offers, and several were available for US customers. It must be said that Zen Studios follows the same rules, but it's a lot worse since it's a European publisher. Well they surely won't see a dime from me. An I'm a pinball games fan. 47 minutes ago, Lucksi666 said: The DLC is an absolute mess in the store. No definite descriptions, there are two season passes for the same system (and yes, same season), one for 30 Euro, the other for 40 Euro and they both have the very same description DLC for all pinball titles on PSN europe was always a mess. Guess they sell in such a volume that they don't even care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locutus442 Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Lucksi666 said: The DLC is an absolute mess in the store. No definite descriptions, there are two season passes for the same system (and yes, same season), one for 30 Euro, the other for 40 Euro and they both have the very same description It might be that the one for 30 Euro is the regular table pack and the one for 40 Euro is the table pack with the pro upgrade for each of the tables in the pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhil1234 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Dlc delisted? I had no idea about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumboWario Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Looks like the Season 1 and 2 tables are still up for purchase on the Honk Kong PSN store. Cross Buy PS3/VITA. I did not own any of the tables before hand, only the base game. I now own all DLC with trophies. $233 HKD for each complete season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ockerjj Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 On 5/2/2021 at 10:23 PM, JumboWario said: Looks like the Season 1 and 2 tables are still up for purchase on the Honk Kong PSN store. Cross Buy PS3/VITA. I did not own any of the tables before hand, only the base game. I now own all DLC with trophies. $233 HKD for each complete season. Interesting. Would you elaborate on how you did that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnichoj Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 56 minutes ago, Ockerjj said: Interesting. Would you elaborate on how you did that? 1. Make HK account. 2. Buy a card from a website like Play-Asia. 3. Use the card to buy tables. 4. ??? 5. Trophy unlocked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristSupremacy Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 On 03/05/2021 at 2:23 AM, JumboWario said: Looks like the Season 1 and 2 tables are still up for purchase on the Honk Kong PSN store. Cross Buy PS3/VITA. I did not own any of the tables before hand, only the base game. I now own all DLC with trophies. $233 HKD for each complete season. Very cool. Did you get the main game in HK as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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