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Quoted from BrianMadden:

So let them price war and let us win.

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Quoted from BrianMadden:

I'd just like to provide an update on MPF since it's been a year since we've posted here. We've been busily working on MPF with about 2500 man hours on it in the past 12 months. We're now on version 0.20 (versus 0.9 at Expo 2014).
We're making good progress towards the original goal of creating a pinball framework that's both easy to use for non-programmers as well as easy to extend for people who want to write "real" code. Most people so far use the config files to get about 90% of the way there and then they finish it up with 10% "glue" written in Python to do the custom stuff for their machine. (Though that's still not strictly necessary. The guys who created the Pitchfork Music Festival machine haven't written a single line of Python. Really it's just a personal preference of the people creating the machine.)
Listing out all the features would take up too much space here. But at this point, MPF has modes, shots, scoring, game logic, lots of different device support, FAST and P-ROC support, many sample modes & devices (ball save, tilt, high score, multiball, bonus, credits & coin support) which are all highly extendable and customizable. We support LCD, color DMD, and physical DMDs. We support games with multiple playfields (even head-to-head). We have separated the pinball controller and the "backbox controller" (display, audio, etc.) into two processes (which is great for small, multi-core systems), and we've developed a communications protocol that lets you replace the built-in backbox controller with whatever you want. (One group has already created a Unity3D-based option.)
Here's the full list of what's been added in the past year: https://missionpinball.com/docs/version-history/
Anyway, I just wanted to give a quick update. I'll post here each time we do a new release (every 6-8 weeks). In the meantime, we have hundreds of pages of documentation, and, most importantly a step-by-step tutorial for getting started (even if you don't have real pinball hardware yet). https://missionpinball.com/docs/tutorial/
We will be at Expo next weekend along with I think 4 or 5 games in progress using MPF. You can also follow the progress via the many other awesome projects on Pinside using MPF: (The Pitchfork Music Festival Machine, Nightmare Before Christmas, Minions...)