Quoted from SLAMT1LT:How can a non licenced game be so expensive? I thought the attraction of doing an original theme was to save money.
No, costs were never? the problem, as most licenses for pinball can be had for 50k$ or something like that and if you sell 1000 machines or more, this is a no brainer.
The real problem with licenses are the restrictions that come with it. There is only so much you can do and sometimes it's not very much.