In a slow news season I am kind of surprised that no one is covering whats happening over at Farsight. You can follow what exactly happened here
https://www.facebook.com/pinballarcade
http://pinballarcadefans.com/showthread.php/194-Latest-NEWS-And-INFORMATION-From-FarSight-Studios-Concerning-The-Pinball-Arcade
I am not 100% on all my facts but this is generally how I remember it going down. Shortly after the games release 4/4/2012 DLC was scheduled to start rolling out. Unfortunately in their first submission to Microsoft there was a problem with the way the game adds updates and content, and to implement the update they must go through the re-certification process which requires a waiting period of 30 days I believe and a$30,000 fee. So ok, they do that and when they resubmit, Microsoft sends back the submission due to bugs, (something to do with an error if a flash memory stick is removed from the console) so they fix it after the waiting period etc.
Anyways this has been 3 months worth of fun waiting on the DLC, but the latest is that they resubmitted and we got a update through live on Tuesday that prepped the game for another update but no DLC yet. The really bad thing about this whole this is that while Farsight has a really great product, you can't help but feel they may have bitten off more than they can chew. They have a Facebook page where there are a lot of upset fans and all they want is to be updated on the situation and not a single representative of Farsight has posted directly or indirectly about the ongoing problems, the closest was a Moderator on their forum's he has all the latest info but swears he's not an employee.
This whole thing has been frustrating as all hell, but it has been interesting to see some of the clash's and problems between a developer and a distributor. Hope you find this interesting and hope you do a write up or something about it.
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