I suppose this is good for those who disliked a particular table in a bundle, but perhaps they could offer a discount for those who do want all tables within a certain genre pack. There are no more bundles, so every table needs to be bought separately. If you want to pick and choose when assembling your new library of old tables you can expect to spend anywhere from 40 to 60 tickets on average for a single table. So if they can do it for Indy why can’t they do it for the rest? Indiana Jones Pinball Adventure cannot be bought with tickets only real money…$15 of real money. There are currently 38 tables available at Early Access launch and there is currently a 33% OFF sale going on, which lets you snatch up 37 of those tables for $120 (220+1200 ticket packs). A few fan favorites like The Walking Dead and Portal aren’t even coming. So what about all those tables you’ve been acquiring for the past decade or more? Prepare to buy them all over again at least the ones that are available. Anyone remember the dark ages of gaming on the Xbox 360 where you had to buy Microsoft Points? Same deal here. The bundles and the prices of the items are designed so you either never have enough tickets or you have tickets left over that you either need to add to or waste. This whole system is a big gimmick to lock you into an in-game currency that takes away your purchasing power to buy specific items for specific prices. The obvious incentive is that the more you spend the more you save with the small bundle equating to $.10 a ticket and the largest bundle coming in at $.08 a ticket. Unlike the previous game where you simply paid cash for tables, you must now buy Tickets in one of four bundles: 100, 220, 575, and 1200 starting at $10 and going up to $100. You have a few options on how to approach this new economy. The game is now a “service” a shell basically, designed to drain your wallet as fast as you can click on those in-app purchases. The core Pinball FX game is free, so anyone can check it out to some degree, but the entire pinball landscape has been drastically altered. Then, out of the blue here comes the announcement that an all new next-gen Pinball FX was up on the Epic Game Store and ready to go with 38 tables updated for 4K, raytracing, and updated physics. I was content, playing my VR versions of the game, but was happy to check out the new Indiana Jones table that released a few weeks ago on PS4/PS5. When the new Pinball FX was announced back in January of 2021 I was beyond excited, then after more than a year of waiting I honestly forgot all about it. So when I start talking about financial stuff in a minute I might not seem as financially invested as some other gamers out there, but I am very much emotionally invested in this franchise. Thankfully, Zen Studios provided me with codes for most of these, and I’ve only had to pay for nine tables out of pocket back during the migration from FX2 to FX3 on the PlayStation. I have 30 DLC tables on Steam for the PC version of FX3 along with all the tables for the Oculus VR version. I have all 100 tables for the PS4 including the recently released Indiana Jones. So why am I telling you all this? So you know how much I love these games. Since January, 2016 I have posted over 100 reviews and news articles for the various games and table releases from Zen Studios and posted over a dozen gameplay videos. Marvel Pinball on PS3 and Marvel Pinball 3D on NDS.Planet Minigolf with and without the Move on PS3.Jump ahead two decades and I was falling in love with pinball all over again with the original Pinball FX on Xbox Live Arcade – anyone remember that service? Since then I have reviewed every pinball game Zen Studios has released including: When I got my first Atari 800 I spent countless days and nights creating my own pinball tables in EA’s Pinball Construction Set. I’ve been a big fan of pinball since the early 80’s and my days spent donating quarters to the various arcades around town. This is an Early Access Review and as such opinions are based solely on the state of the game at the time of review and subject to change as development progresses leading up to final release.
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