Quoted from SNES:

I need to see about playing one of these machines. This is a fantastic theme for me but I’m a little worried about how it will feel compared to normal pinball machine. The game looks amazing though!

Quoted from Shaker:

This pre-order process is stressing me out!
I saw that the time on my phone was 3 minutes off of the time on a buddy's phone.
Will Multimorphic have a grace period, in case my e-mail server is a little fast? (I send it thinking in 9AM CST, but they think they got it at 8:59AM.)
If they do have a grace period, should I deliberately send my order early?
Should I send an order a little early, a second right on time, and a third a little late?
Should I learn how to use the dark web, and hire a bot-net to send a 1000 orders a second from 8:50 CST to 9:10 CST?
- Mark

Quoted from Shaker:

Nitpicking...
"We will reply to all sales requests in the order received with an invoice for a $2000 deposit. No other payment will be due until your order enters production."
I do think it's messed up that you have to put $2000 down regardless if you are buying the full P3 + WAM + Limited Edition Package for $13,100 or (like me) just the WAM Module for $3000.
"Noncancelled orders are then only refundable if we miss your estimated ship date by 6 months, ...
Order transfer requests are subject to a $100 transfer fee, payable by the original purchaser."
Not sure what to think about these rules. Anyone who has a family emergency, and needed their cash back will have to sell their place line, and give $100 to Multimorphic. Not the thing I would want to deal with in the middle of a Family Emergency.
- Mark

Quoted from MaxIsDead:

Any guesses on how quickly the LE’s will sell out? I’m in for a standard but curious how hot the LE’s will be. I am guessing 6hrs, 3pm central all LE’s are sold. That will be huge for Multimorphic!

Quoted from TechnicalSteam:

Sheesh!!!! You snooze and loose in Pinball -

Quoted from EchoVictor:

^ Good question.
I for one think there totally needs to be a "Weird Al Polka Party!" second software set for the module.
Licensing/permissions might be a snag though....
Later,
EV

Quoted from playtwowin:

I for one would not feel uncomfortable having these songs in the game. I would absolutely love for them to be there. When I think of Wierd Al I can't help but think of these songs. They were such a huge part of his success. It's a shame that Wierd Al feels that it would cause some sort of controversy. He should be profiting on these songs because they were and still are brilliant masterpieces.

Quoted from Rdoyle1978:

Ok this has been driving me crazy. I have to deal with this stuff quite a lot. There are 3 types of copyright/royalties in music: Mechanical, Publishing (Lyrics), and Publishing (Melody). Note it is not "Publishing (Music)" because that is more subjective.
In Al's case, he is essentially recording covers of the parody songs. He is -not- using the original recordings at all. The original recordings are covered under what are called "Mechanical Royalties". "Mechanical" because it's a thing due to player pianos [potentially] putting musicians out of work. Those recordings need to be licensed, and anybody who played music on them would be owed royalties. Those royalties can be sold to a company, so even that isn't cut and dry.
An artist can't stop Al from recording his 'covers' (and few would), just like I can record a cover of "When I Was Your Age" and Al couldn't stop me from doing so. If I decide to SELL (or YouTube) my cover, then I start to owe him a bit of money for PUBLISHING, because I am using stuff that he wrote and owns. The amount is per unit, per medium (i.e. CD sold, per stream, etc). When I submit my original songs to the USPTO for copyright control, I submit lyrics and the main melody of the song. That's it, and that's what is covered by the copyright. The original recordings by the original artist are also copyrighted when released.
When Al does parodies, he puts entirely new lyrics to the music. He then becomes part author of his version of the song due to lyrics. He still uses the original melody of the songs. He doesn't own that, but he still makes royalty dollars because he's rewriting the lyrics. The other writers on the song are still due royalties due to their Publishing claim. Al and his band re-record all the music, so he/they own the Mechanical royalties.
Ok, so you're both right. Kind of.
Now, this has nothing to do with LICENSING, which is totally dependant on the internal corporate structure of the entity you're licensing. Al owns *part* of the cover songs (to make the math easy, let's say he owns 2/3 of HIS recordings). He still owes the original authors of the song a portion of their fee to license it for his recording, then a pinball manufacturer would have to pay Al some amount that from a financial perspective would need to cover his 2/3 ownership plus whatever he owes the original song authors (minus his additional ownership % due to the new lyrics). And Al's company is such a behemoth he may have some leverage in creating a deal for fixed royalties for the publishing. Conceiveably (I have no idea if this makes sense from a business perspective), he could make a deal for ALL publishing royalties for a particular song for a specified period of years, and just pay 1 flat fee. In that sense, for a certain period of time, he would not owe any further royalties for the use of the song. No way to know, and Jay Levey isn't going to tell anybody those details. Also, this is why lawyers.

Quoted from Rdoyle1978:

Doesn't that only apply if you buy EVERYTHING? Not sure MM has put together a deal like that. )Not really expecting they will either, given the deluge of orders)

Quoted from punkin:

Talk to Gerry, he's pretty accommodating, if you don't get if you don't ask.

Quoted from arcyallen:

For everyone that put down deposits, I'm curious: are they transferrable/sellable? I've seen plenty of Halloween and Ultraman deposits for sale, but not one Weird Al. I figured either you can't transfer it (ouch) or everyone is so dedicated they'll ride out the wait. Anyone willing to put down a deposit and wait a year for a pin they hadn't played is pretty friggin' dedicated!

Quoted from splitcms:

I just got a p3 machine and Weird Al. I never played one before and don’t know much about it. How do you change the settings so the flippers are controlled by 1 button on each side instead of 2? Also, how do you adjust the flippers strength? Thank you