Lynn's Rec Room Projects

[LynnInDenver]

Well, good. No one needs any added stress after the last year, so if their handling of things is going to turn your hobby into another aggravation, good riddance.

Yeah, that's pretty much the thing; if the gray market stuff like Visual Pinball is now presenting a fraction of the friction, then that's where I'm going to be. As my friend Myk has put it... this is how we encourage piracy. I really wanted to have the machine be as legitimate as possible; that's incredibly difficult when it's being made clear by at least one publisher that what I have set up is NOT in their intended market.

I've pretty much decided to not buy the last DLC pack for Pinball FX3, which was going to be a package of Star Wars tables. I was on the fence; they're changing to Unreal Engine this year, making a new version for that just called Pinball FX, it's going to be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for a year, and on top of it I'd have to rebuy all the DLC to get it with their new physics. The Zaccaria thing put me over the edge, even with being a completely separate publisher; yes, they probably have literally cost someone else a customer in the long term, as well as themselves.

I also went into Steam, into each store page for the other pinball simulations, and told Steam to Ignore so that they're not being considered for recommendations based on my play patterns.

I'll still be following the Visual Pinball side of things.