Hi Michael, You have a good point, but the problem with your logic is that you are over estimating how much money can be made off of audio games. Paid updates or not there isn't a lot of money to be made off of selling audio games.
The first problem is financial. The majority of blind customers all over the world are unemployed and are living of government benefits. Here in the USA, for example, the unemployment rate among the blind is roughly 82% and most of those are living off of SSI and SSDI. The average blind citizen in the USA makes $721 USD per month in SSI benefits. After you take out the cost of rent, food, bus/taxi fair, electricity, etc there is precious little left to spend on games. Without a lot of money to spend on games it is unlikely that a lot of blind gamers will buy the game a developer is selling even if they want it. The second big issue is a very small minority within a small minority. I have done some research and at any given time there only seems to be about 2,000 blind computer users downloading and playing audio games. That estimation may be conservative, but assuming each and every one of them paid for the game it still wouldn't be enough for a audio game developer to live off of. There aren't enough paying customers to make developing a game like you suggest worthwhile financially. Cheers! On 12/16/14, Michael Gauler <michael.gau...@gmx.de> wrote: > That might be true. > But it looks like you might be forgetting something here at least in > theory. > You probably know that Sryth was developed over ten years as well as World > of Warcraft. > However do you know that the original World of Warcraft was smaller at its > initial release? > I also think that many features and content for Sryth was added over the > years. > But in the case of either browser games or mainstream games, content can be > > released after the initial release. > In the days of Microsofts older operating systems we had such releases known > > as service packs which some times brought more than bug fixes and security > updates. > World of Warcraft, while still being an MMORPG had six releases and there > will probably be more. > The first release was the initial release plus five (paid!) expansion packs > > which were released over several years and some expansions took more than > one year to develop. > > If we were to make Sryth into an audio game it would take a huge amound of > time because the original development of that game took years. > But if it were to be made into an audio game just an example, the content > could be split between releases and if we were talking paid content, you > could get some money per released package. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
