Zen Studios explains table censorship in Pinball FX3, considering mature-themed version that would see the currently-missing content return

Some Pinball FX3 fans have noticed that recent tables from the Williams collection have seen their artwork and content censored from the original version. For example, above you can see the original artwork for Medieval Madness. In the Pinball FX3 version, blood has been removed from the swords, cigars have been taken out of the goblin's mouth, and women are wearing more clothing. Zen Studios VP of Publishing Mel Kirk provided a statement to ArsTechnica to explain the situation.

"We pride ourselves on Pinball FX being a very family-friendly game. People expect a specific type of game associated with certain types of content. I'm not going to jeopardize all those relationships, all that history, all those families that play the game for some bits of artwork."

Players have noticed the changes, are some aren't happy at all. Kirk knows that sentiment is out there, which is leading to Zen Studios considering a solution.

"In extreme cases like this, something Zen has considered for a while is, is there another iteration of Pinball FX that can exist It's a completely different game experience, it has more mature content, it can have blood and guts, there can be more mature themes, simulated gambling. That is something we're actively talking about internally right now... It's really just a matter of how much we want to focus on this. Does it bother us enough that people are mad at us?... It's a vocal minority, but nonetheless they're very important and we want to make them happy too.

For all the hardcore players that don't like what we've done, we have just as many people saying thank you for doing this, because now my kids can play too, and they now know these games. If the artwork and some of the things that are more mature are super important to people, we'll hear them and we'll try to make those available, maybe under a different label or a different game. But FX3 is a family-friendly game."