I fear Zen's losing some opportunity. They released two new Star Wars tables today (The Mandalorian and Classic Collectibles)... but exclusively in their brand spanking new Star Wars Pinball VR app on Steam, which basically means that those tables won't be available in FX3. I'm curious if they're going to be brought into Pinball FX later this year when that releases.
To a certain extent, while it's annoying that it turned out this "last pack" was actually not going to be offered to me anyway (since we have no VR hardware right now, we're NOT in the target market, and like a number of gaming purchases, we're not buying in without a bare minimum number of games we'll actually PLAY), it's not actually surprising to me given what else has been going on this year and knowing that Zen has corporate masters fairly recently. I do feel a little led on, even though the stuff with Magic Pixel shoved me off the fence into not buying anyway, because I thought that it was going to be the last pack for FX3 and that it would technically be available to me.
Zen is really going to have to offer something really special in Pinball FX for me to even look seriously at it, honestly, even with my new criteria for consideration of Commercial Pinball Simulators. Clearly the enthusiasts no longer have full control of the helm over there, and I can factor that in to my decisions going forward.
I may well be out of the Commercial Pinball Simulator market for good, and sticking with fan-built tables in Visual Pinball.
To a certain extent, while it's annoying that it turned out this "last pack" was actually not going to be offered to me anyway (since we have no VR hardware right now, we're NOT in the target market, and like a number of gaming purchases, we're not buying in without a bare minimum number of games we'll actually PLAY), it's not actually surprising to me given what else has been going on this year and knowing that Zen has corporate masters fairly recently. I do feel a little led on, even though the stuff with Magic Pixel shoved me off the fence into not buying anyway, because I thought that it was going to be the last pack for FX3 and that it would technically be available to me.
Zen is really going to have to offer something really special in Pinball FX for me to even look seriously at it, honestly, even with my new criteria for consideration of Commercial Pinball Simulators. Clearly the enthusiasts no longer have full control of the helm over there, and I can factor that in to my decisions going forward.
I may well be out of the Commercial Pinball Simulator market for good, and sticking with fan-built tables in Visual Pinball.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor