Saying 'no' with your wallet could most likely result in more SLE games on future titles. Why build hundreds of games if you can make more money with just dozens?
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Saying 'no' with your wallet could most likely result in more SLE games on future titles. Why build hundreds of games if you can make more money with just dozens?
Quoted from 27dnast:The implication is that masses of loyal Star Wars collectors will buy a Stern machine simply because it says Star Wars.
If there is one thing we can learn from previous licensed games it's that the fans of the licensed brand usually don't care about a pinball machine. Star Trek was considered such a hot property that fans would go crazy for, but most ST fans didn't buy the pinball game or even bother at all. The number of KISS sales to the KISS army is highly dissappointing. You'd expect Stern to be cranking out KISS games for years to meet the demand, but apparently the demand isn't there. So why would it be different for Star Wars?
Quoted from Zitt:This Fan bought an LE... and the LEs sold out before they officially announced.
You like pinball and Star Trek, so you bought a game. Good for you. LE's sold out because distributors bought them, not because Star Trek fans bought them. The point I tried to make is that a license may help to get fans of a theme to drop a quarter in a game on location, but I don't see that many fans of a theme, who aren't in the pinball hobby, buy the pinball machine because it is themed about a movie or b(r)and they like.
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