Fair enough, I don’t recall the cost of it (if any) and that’s really the only area it might win out against the Hotel, outside of the connections subtype stuff which historically matters very little (though with all the pushes I hope it becomes meaningful at some point). I think there’s a niche for it to fill, potentially, but I keep forgetting about Earthrise being neutral and influenceless for some stupid reason.
FIS is almost certainly the better card, with more draw for free, so it’s pretty great for setting things up, especially in Criminal where the Corp might want to keep a big hand to protect against Legworks. I think other Criminals might want more, but might also get relatively happy – while they have few draw cards they do have significant filtering ability, which isn’t the same but is still very relevant/useful in its own right.
Two other spoilers, that I think have already been spoiled here, but just in case:
#97 Old Hollywood Grid
Upgrade Region
5 rez, 4 trash
Agendas accessed from this server cannot be stolen unless the Runner already has a copy of that agenda in his or her score area. This applies even during the run on which the Runner trashes OHG
Another thing that folds to Film Critic but otherwise seems pretty useful. The first NBN upgrade that’d be good for a scoring server OR a central server that I could see getting played… but the lowish trash cost/losing the vanilla test might just be too much to be worth it. If NBN Glacier is ever a thing (oh, how I pray) then I could see it coming out.
If Film Critic isn’t as much of a thing as I think, it might become decent, particularly in a NEARPAD-esque NEH build with Encryption Protocols and/or Hostile Infrastructures to make trashing it on R&D more of a pain. I think it might just be overkill in Haarpsichord, though I guess it’d give the Sensies all an extra trigger the turn they trash it, which could cover the costs of rezzing it nicely, in theory.
Shame Casting Call makes the install face-up (although I get that it’s necessary), as that way you could also make them take the tags twice over, which’d be no small amount of fun on top of Explode-a-Palooza or Award Bait double-firing (even if EAP’s first shot is just used in paying for the Grid).
It’s also a neat way to promote agenda diversity, since if you only have the one copy of something sitting on an OHG that they can’t easily trash, it cannot be stolen. New IG meta? 
#95 NBN asset
Cost 0, inf 3, trash 2
When your turn begins, you may pay 1c to place one advancement token on a card that can be advanced in a server
This seems more exciting. You need two of them for Beale to care overly, but in Butchershop especially I could see it eating up some wins, letting you NA Score a BN with more clicks to trash or scorch the enemy, or otherwise just saving you time. Not a huge speedbump to trash, but free to rez and too good to let sit.
The influence is reasonable, but sad. Weyland would probably enjoy getting to have two or three of these to make their big scores easier, but it’s just too much influence, I think. In particular horizontal might enjoy being able to bluff-score a 5/3, but that takes two of 'em, like Beale, to say nothing of the Mushin>Advance>Two of these and three advances next turn scores of Government Takeover, or the (slightly) less unreasonable hope of three of them allowing you to NA Score an Oz Project. Getting bonus Atlas counters’d be nice, too… but again, Weyland really needs their influence more often than not.
HB, though, might enjoy it, particularly if they decide to go more horizontal. Gives them extra clicks after scoring an ABT if they mandatory draw into a Jackson and want to gamble, and it lets them slip extra counters onto Vitruvius, too. They also have the most corp-side recursion, which means the low trash cost is less of a concern, and it’d allow them all the 5/3 scoring benefits, too. But even there, 6-9 influence is a looot, especially when you need 3 for Jacksons.
So I have big hopes, but am pretty braced for disappointment at the same time. Kinda applies to a bunch of the pack, I guess. I think there’s a lot of potential in a lot of it, but I think most of my reads really hinge on whether or not Film Critic is good, which is hard to evaluate at the moment because no amount of armchair theorizing will make up for the collective experience. I think it’ll be a thing, between the low influence cost and high utility, but will it be a solid choice against many Corps or just utterly ruinous for several archetpyes? Bleh.
