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Quoted from snyper2099:The primary reason for this is that Arcades are MUCH cheaper to keep running long term, than pins. Barcades tend to have all ARCADE games on Free Play. Most "barcade" business models I see have 0.50 cent pay to play pins (if they have any!), which makes sense to me.
I understand the reasoning. I just wish it weren't true.
Until pinball machines become more reliable ( 
), arcade chains will not carry pinball.
The maintenance cuts too much into the bottom line.
The smaller independent arcades, barcades, regular bars, pizza joints, comic book shops and so forth our are only hope.
Quoted from AJB4:Well if that's what you want to do then you need to make pinball interactive with a social component.
Networking capability would work for both D&B and home users.
Even something simple to start. Like automatic high score posting to a website, Facebook page, Twitter feed, ect..
Also in 2015, why aren't new machines able to go online for automatic code updates? 
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