Can you take another shot at making a good argument here about what WE want? I'm not saying making good arguments is easy, but I know you can do better...

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I too love unlicensed themes, and I've NEVER heard anyone make a good argument for why I ACTUALLY do prefer licensed themes, when...

I don't...

I own 19 unlicensed themes, and I'm looking forward to JJP #3.

I could write for pages about why I prefer unlicensed themes, but I'll have to save it for another day. I certainly won't be writing about why you or others do or do not.

-mof

#37 8 years ago

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mof

Mof Pinball

San Francisco, CA

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What was the first licensed theme?
-mof

#43 8 years ago

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mof

Mof Pinball

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,298 25 94

If the first licensed theme is Wizard in 1975, how did pinball flourish all those years until then without licensed themes?
The horror...
-mof

#83 8 years ago

MOF

mof

Mof Pinball

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,298 25 94

Quoted from mfresh:
For anyone who's interested, I did a fairly loose analysis of whether licensed titles did better than unlicensed ones in the 1990s here:
http://pavlovpinball.com/does-pinball-licencing-work/
If you take out the Addams Family, which is a bit of an outlier in terms of the number of units made, the results are quite surprising. (Things have obviously changed since the 1990s, but it's still interesting though I say so myself...

Nice work ...I especially appreciate how you were able to write an article, and raise a few points without telling us what WE want. Remarkable.

-mof

#86 8 years ago

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mof

Mof Pinball

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,298 25 94

Quoted from Taxman:
Sorry, but MMr is a licensed theme. MM was an unlicensed theme from Williams, PPS had to get the license from Williams to make MMr.

LOL, sure -- but for the sake of this discussion it is NOT a licensed theme. It was not an idea/brand licensed from a (Movie, Band, or TV show.)
-mof

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