Quoted from ahdelarge:Thanks, Debbie Downer!
Turn off the wifi if you don't want the connected experience. It will be something that you have to setup in the menu system, not something that will be forced upon you.
Playing online against strangers and playing socially in an environment is still playing against someone. I don't have people over at my house to play pinball every night, so pinball is generally a single player experience for me.
I welcome all these changes. This is what pinball needs to happen to move it foward. I don't want to be updating games by running from my computer with a thumb drive and then discovering that the pinball doesn't like the drive. Or heaven forbid I have to send a board away to get the latest code put on it....and bring on online pinball gaming. It would be nice to play against an online leaderboard. The only negative I see with this is someone taking the glass off and generating a high score by cheating.
Well of course the leaderboard will be full of cheating, that’s why it’s pointless. Most seem to agree Stern does not have the technical ability to create and support a secure connected system, so best to not do it.