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[jrolson]

It's on Steam Greenlight... You have to vote to get it put on Steam... so go vote!

Many of you have been patiently (OK, not so patiently) awaiting the release of the PC version of the Pinball Arcade. We are excited to announce that it is finally ready! We would like to partner with the Steam online gaming platform to distribute the PC version, but we need your help. Steam uses a greenlight process to decide which games they distribute based on the number of votes a game receives. Please take a minute to cast a vote for the Pinball Arcade. As a small thank-you we've put together a new video that includes a glimpse of the upcoming Elvira and the Party Monsters table- check it out and cast a vote by following the link below!

http://steamcommunit...ls/?id=95907686

Edited by jrolson, 14 September 2012 - 06:04 AM.

[tttttwii]

Does anyone know if a cab version is finally availble?

[CuriousDan]

Wohooo! Voted.

[hmueck]

Voted. Currently at 0% of the neccessary votes. Pro Pinball is at 1%.

[jrolson]

It's going to take forever to get this voted through...

[JohnnyDoe]

+1
If you never purchased anything on steam before. You need to do that first.
I recommend SlamIt Pinball. Cost you 5 euros.

[TheMcD]

Great! At the rate it's going, we could expect it to be on Steam sometime in 2014/2015, if it even makes it!

Greenlight just doesn't work for niche titles - even if just about everybody interested in the game votes, we'd get about 30~40% at best and then it's just stuck in limbo.

[rosve]

I tried to vote for it but only steam members are allowed to vote.

[JohnnyDoe]

ROSVE: Like I wrote above, not only do you need to be a member, but you need to purchase a game first too.

[bha19]

I voted

[tamoore]

I would vote, but I'm not a member, and I already own slam it pinball... I'll have my brother and nephews vote,...

[bent98]

I voted on both my steam accounts

[Shooby Doo]

Why Steam? Why do I have to vote for it? Why can't I just download it from them directly? Or from Amazon? Why can't I go to a store and buy it in a box? I hate the direction gaming is going. Steam is like the mob and expects their cut I guess.

[The Trout]

Steam makes buying games and playing games significantly easier. It also makes it much, much easier to distribute patches and provide DLC.

[draftcard]

voted and sent to all my steam friends to vote

[epthegeek]

Does anyone know if a cab version is finally availble?

From a farsight employee over on pinballarcadefans:

"I don't think we'll have full cabinet support (multiple displays, etc) done by the time it launches. As for simple portrait view, it may be in by the time we release. Not sure how long it'll take for Steam to greenlight it."

That's a bit of a downer. But if it never gets enough votes for greenlight I guess it doesn't matter.

[mamemaster]

w/o cabinet support- I don't see the value to me. That's all I really want from this software. If this gets all caught up with "voting" and such nonsense it becomes dumb.

Remember the "old days" when a company just created a product and sold it? Now it's all kickstarter and more......

Edited by mamemaster, 14 September 2012 - 04:15 PM.

[s1500]

w/o cabinet support- I don't see the value to me. That's all I really want from this software. If this gets all caught up with "voting" and such nonsense it becomes dumb.

Remember the "old days" when a company just created a product and sold it? Now it's all kickstarter and more......

And for those casual players who don't have the money/time invested in a cabinet & just want to play pinball on their lunch break,it works. I'm guessing that the # of cabinet owners for virtual pins only makes a small percentage compared to desktop players.

[settingsons]

Bring back the good old days where you could go down to a shop and buy a game off the shelf. They seriously need to find an alternative to Steam - I certainly wouldn't install Steam on my cabinet, and I don't want to enable internet on it for sure as that means Steam running, a Firewall, Virus Protector, etc. and these will almost certainly screw up the performance of the VP tables which I certainly don't want to give up

[KloggMonkey]

Why Steam? Why do I have to vote for it? Why can't I just download it from them directly? Or from Amazon? Why can't I go to a store and buy it in a box? I hate the direction gaming is going. Steam is like the mob and expects their cut I guess.

I totally agree, however I don't have a time machine either. I hate the direction a lot of things are going including gaming, PC, console, or arcade. In fact someone please make me a time machine so I can live from 1979-1999 over and over.
The world is what it is, things must adapt or die. That is why pinball has fallen to where it is from the former glory days.

Buy it in a box is dead.
As to why Steam: it is the best way to sell and distribute a PC game, it creates its own marketing and even sales.. that is if you can get your game on it. If the masses want your game bad enough you don't need Steam, and they will find it on your site and even pay in a different currency to buy it, i.e Minecraft.

It would be my hunch that since Farsight has developed for the handhelds 1st-- the direction gaming is going-- they figure the only way to get enough PC sales to be worth their while is on Steam. The don't believe that if they distribute via their own website they will have anything close to the sales Steam brings, so they won't waste the development time.

Steam must feel the same way except worse... they don't think The Pinball Arcade will sell enough even on Steam to be worth their while so that's where Greenlight comes in as a second opinion to the whims of Valve. So vote it all you can and hopefully it will make it, if not I hope Farsight sees enough interest to self-online distribute.

As far as Steam being the mob, I'm sure the distribution costs are.... from largest to smallest: IRL in the box on a shelf, Amazon, Steam, Free* on their own site.

Bring back the good old days where you could go down to a shop and buy a game off the shelf. They seriously need to find an alternative to Steam - I certainly wouldn't install Steam on my cabinet, and I don't want to enable internet on it for sure as that means Steam running, a Firewall, Virus Protector, etc. and these will almost certainly screw up the performance of the VP tables which I certainly don't want to give up

Offline mode for Steam, if all you do on the net in that cab is Steam you don't have to firewall, or worry about viruses. Unplug when its not needed to update.