Just received the below from Farsight. I want to be wrong, but doesn't this suggest virtual pinball is headed towards limited free play and unlimited play through purchasing virtual tokens?

Ghost Busters Pinball

Farsight is very excited to soon be releasing its first stand-alone pinball table app, Ghostbusters™ Pinball! We started building the table with the basic layout of the appropriately themed Haunted House™. As we continued development, and since this is our first table released that isn't a simulation of a real world classic, we feel like it deserves even more than being featured in the Pinball Arcade collection.

Our Ghostbusters themed table will be free to download and free to play. Tokens are needed for each game, but you get 10 to start with and you earn at least one token each day. People with the Pinball Arcade installed earn two tokens per day!

The table is based on the hit movie released in 1984 and its sequel. This game puts you in control of the Ghostbusters crew, featuring Egon, Peter, Ray and Winston, as they battle paranormal foes in New York City. The Playfield is divided into three levels representing iconic settings from the movies: the city, rooftop and subway. Use eight flippers to move the ball through the three levels by shooting up and down ramps, tubes and a manhole as you build up a huge Ghost Bonus. Raise the Slimer Pop Bumper to reveal a ball lock for Multi-Ball and then cross the streams on the roof to destroy the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!

We're proud of how it turned out. Our hope is that people enjoy it and that this type of stand-alone app will introduce fans of Ghostbusters to pinball and to the Pinball Arcade.

The Ghostbuster app should be available before the end of October.

We hope you like it!

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I hope so too, but I'm worried because this "free token based on time" system is a common model for "freemium" games on iOS and Android: Get you hooked on the gameplay and sell tokens in bulk if you're not patient enough to wait for more free tokens. I've seen coin-pusher games that work exactly this way and look similar to the Ghostbusters screenshot.

I'm with you though: Excited to check it out. I even owned a 1966 ambulance in college I called "Ecto 2".