What really sucks is that Medieval Madness is fantastic and I’m guessing all the other Williams tables are as well. So, if you just want that one table, Zen’s giving you a giant middle finger.
To make matters even worse, it costs 250 Zen coins to purchase a table, but they’re only sold in denominations of 150, 350, 800, or more. Yes, there are three in-game currencies which is the gold standard of excellent video game design. I haven’t even mentioned tickets, which would be the third in-game currency next to parts and Zen coins. What’s the difference between promote and just outright buying? If I buy it, do I get everything? No, still have to buy “pro-physics” separately? I don’t know.Īll I do know is there are a lot of really good real-life tables hiding behind one of the most obnoxious in-app stores I’ve ever seen.
This means you can play it whenever you want in “arcade mode”, and each game will earn you a pittance in Zen coins. You only unlock the initial table you choose and, through the tutorial that can only be described as obtuse, somehow promote it to level 2. I don’t mind paying for tables–I expect it, in fact–but here you have to collect (or buy) Zen coins. What followed was a ridiculous mess of F2P nonsense that I still cannot wrap my head around.Įverything, and I mean everything, is behind the paywall.
Upon downloading the free app, I was inundated with options and picked the only table out of the initial Williams selection that I was interested in: Medieval Madness. Last week, Zen Studios released Williams Pinball for iOS and I don’t think it’s possible for them to have shit the bed any worse. What more could I want?Ī lot, apparently. Thus, I was super stoked when I heard that Zen has acquired the Williams license and would be bringing real-life tables into the Zen world. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to either re-purchase my ST:TNG table only to have it disappear the next time I open the app. The problem is that Pinball Arcade’s apps are hunks of garbage compared to the polished gems that Zen puts out. Give me Star Trek: TNG and a handful of quarters and I can die happy. I’m also one of the freaks that prefers the real tables of Pinball Arcade to the fanciful, and often physics-defying, tables of Zen Pinball. I love pinball, be it standing in an arcade or digitally on my iPad.
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