Should be easy to re-license. No actors. No movie scenes (with actors?).
Frankly, I REALLY hope JJP didn't pay much for that license. The game would lose very little if a few things were changed and renamed Black Rose 2.

You're combining two unrelated comments/thoughts. My "go broke" comment had nothing to do with starting production again on POTC. It was in reference to the idea of a company trying to satisfy the needs of every customer by maintaining inventory of parts no longer needed for production. Making business decisions like that will incur extra/unnecessary costs and will hurt profitability & long-term survival.

As for the decision to make more of a product or not, a company can't just look at second hand prices and make the decision. They have to look at their opportunity cost to determine how much they'll earn on their total costs to produce it. Would that return be greater producing more POTC machines or would it be greater producing machines of a different title? Only JJP has the cost, market demand, and other data that is needed to make that decision. Anyone trying to say what JJP "should" do is purely guessing with very limited information.

I'm just a customer buying the machines, so the only thing I'm interested in is whether or not a company makes a game I like and whether or not the company has good quality, service, and support for that game. I trust that JJP and the other pinball companies know how to run their business and make the decisions that are in the best interests for their business. If they don't, then they go out of business. And, full disclosure, I've said before in the forums that I'm not happy with my experience with JJP support on POTC so I won't be buying another JJP machine. So even though I'm not a fan of JJP I still don't pretend to think that I know what games they should build or how they should run their business.

There seem to be many people on Pinside who think they know what machines all the companies should make and how they should make them. For me, I feel that trying to speculate on what any company should or shouldn't make is a waste of my energy because I don't have anywhere near the amount of information truly needed to make those decisions.

On POTC, JJP has stated that their factory is not set up for widebodies and that incurring the costs to change it to produce widebodies isn't in their plans. So there really isn't any speculation about that. It's information straight from JJP.

Every actor's face is all over the game, they just don't appear in the video clips. There was an interview with Jack where he mentioned that Chow Yun-Fat would not grant them his license, so his character was not included in the game. It sounds like there was at least some licensing involved with each individual actor.

The minimum would still be to have spare parts for a machine that is not even 4 years old. I do not see how this will put their society at risk. Having spare parts is for me the minimum of customer service. If you have a centerpiece that breaks what do you do? I hope that they will make sure to have a minimum of stock to ensure our peace of mind.

Gotcha. Well, I stand by my comment that the character pictures/names add little to the game and so I hope they didn't pay too much. The JJP guys did a great job with the onscreen visuals considering the limited assets.

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I'm a former owner of POTCLE who loved the game, but not a fan of the movie franchise. I would love to see JJP re-release as a non-licensed generic pirate theme (rebuilt on basically the same code with new assets/story), or retheme it to something else licensed or unlicensed. I always thought it was a super fun game - great shots and fun code. I really think JJP is done with POTC, but one can hope hehe.

the game kinda seems like this already to me. It's not like I think of the movies while playing it.

Exactly - change the mode and character names, assets, and you are there. I'm sure it would still be a lot of work.

Used games selling for twice or three times original cost?

Not easy to tell ofc but JJP could easily find out. Lets say a new version like the ruby red concept on woz.
People have to pre-order with cash deposit of 2k. Total price per unit 11k. If more then a thousand customers commit, game is beeing made.¨

Talk about the sure thing for JJP.

BTW all but speculators win. Hobbyists, pinball fans, thoose who want spare parts, everybody that want to be able to play one of the best games ever etc.

In today's climate, playfield issues aside, I think JJP could easily sell a couple hundred POTCs at like $15k. They could even cut some features like WOZ YBR and still sell them.

But I doubt it'll happen. They got so many designers champing at the bit to get their own game on the line. Even if Lawlor is leaving after his next game, Ritchie has a least one game in him, and then there's Eric and Mark.

Maybe if they could foresee a time where the production line will be slow, but I imagine it takes a year of build up to place all the parts orders and to be delivered.

Does POTC suffer from the same fate as GNR???

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No.

GNR apologists say we don’t understand the game of multiball after multiball programmed into GNR. The good thing about POTC is it has lots of interactive mechs, so there is more to program for, where GNR is almost mech free.

I don't know all the logistical issues with making the games again. We have a few of them on the route and people seem to like them a lot. From a perspective of an operator I hope they make them again because it will benefit the community. I'm sure if they can get 15k from the game NIB then they could find a way to do a short run. Fingers crossed.

Both are extremely beautiful and packed with makers imagination, creativity and effort.

They are truuly pieces of art.

You can have opinions on gameplay, style/art, theme choice and whatever, but you just have to acknowledge the spectacular effort that was put in.