Williams™ Pinball 17+

Good tables, takes some work

I like that there are no ads essentially, but if you watch ads you can earn bonuses. You start out with permission for only one table and I am happy with Medieval Madness. You earn experience points as you play that move you up levels. After a week I am on Level 17. It gets harder to advance levels as you work your way up. When you advance a level you get bonuses that can slowly authorize other tables. Doing daily challenges also earns bonuses. After getting enough bonus table parts and tickets you can start doing 5-minute challenges on other tables. So I have gotten to play most of the tables, which are mostly good with unlimited lives. Looking forward to having enough table parts to play on some of the tables for real, but having enough tickets to authorize those will be a problem. Do lots of challenges since extra challenges only cost 20-30 tickets and usually earn 100 or more, plus parts. Getting zen coins is much harder without paying real money. The network often fails to connect and there aren’t a lot of instructions, so I am only giving 4 stars. But the tables are 5 stars without the baggage.

Wth is going on with this app?!?!?!!!???

It’s by far my favorite pinball app. I haven’t been playing it for very long. However, I’ve played it long enough to have earned a Ed decent amount of parts, tickets & such. Today I opened it up to play and it’s been completely wiped. All my data, my 1 table, my credits, my tickets, all of it is gone. Every time I open the app I have to choose my first table, as if I’ve never played the game. Once I play the 1 game it says it can’t connect to the server & to try again later. Since all my crap was wiped, I even deleted it & downloaded it again. When I close the app out completely or delete it & then reopen it, I have to start all over again and I get the same message.
Err rrIt’s also a bit confusing as to what you need to obtain to completely unlock an additional table, it’s as clear as mud. I thought I had unlocked a 2nd table at a given but nope it wants more stuff b4 I can play it. It would be great if you could make playable tables more obvious & what all needs to be done to make a table eligible for free play would be very nice.
Oh, and I agree with one of the previous reviewers, BRING BACK TALES OF ARABIAN!! Or something like that, lol. I just remember enjoying that table for a long time. I was actually looking for it when I came across this app.

Developer Response ,

Hello there! Sorry for coming back this late, we slid over your review.
We're sad to hear you lost your data. If you try the restore purchases option while being logged into the same AppleID, that can solve your problem.
Also, we're happy to let you know that since this review, we added the Tales of the Arabian Nights to our collection, so you might be interested in that! :)

Great game ruined by IAP grind

Should have just paid the $30 from the start, to unlock all the tables. Unfortunately, this is a one-time offer, and the game tracks you by your Apple account, so deleting the app doesn’t work to reset this. Without this one-time purchase, you are trapped in an endless IAP grind. You only get to play timed challenges on one table, that quickly gets very boring. It would take weeks of grinding this, and/or spending way, way more than $30 to get less than what I would have gotten if I had just taken that one-time offer up front. A scam, and a really unethical way of running things. I hate micro transactions and IAP and mandatory commercials and in-app “coins” that you have to pay real money for. Zen should be ashamed. Zen Pinball is a great app, you pay once per table and then have the table forever. Williams Pinball should have also been the same way, but they squandered that chance. The final straw is the one-time $30 offer, locked to your Apple account so it’s absolutely final, and if you wait too long it’s forever gone, and you have no choice but to tackle the endless IAP grind. No thanks.