Re: Suggestions to Apple

[Travis Siegel]

While this really isn't the place for this discussion, I would like  
to point out that James *did* do things wrong.
He claimed a game was ready to be shipped.  Took people's money, then  
never shipped the game because it wasn't even close to being done.   
This is not a legitimate business, personal, or any other kind of  
practice except criminal.  Regardless of his problems, no matter what  
kind, this sort of behavior is not only unacceptable, but if it had  
been done by a commercial company producing games for the general  
populous, he would had a class action lawsuit slapped on him so fast  
he wouldn't have had the time to blink.  But, because it was a small  
community, nothing happened as a result.  So, if he obtained a bad  
reputation, and this is the worst that happened to him, then he got  
off way to easy in my opinion.
However, since I was not one of the ones who lost their money to this  
guy I really don't have a complaint with him, though if I had been  
one of them, you can be sure I would have spearheaded the class  
action suit to be sure.
This is just another reason why I will not return to the accessible  
games market.  I have several ideas, and code written that could be  
dropped into several projects I already have, and I could have half a  
dozen games in a few months (time permitting) but I will not lend my  
support to such an industry as allows thhings like this to go  
unremarked and unpunished.
The fact that nothing happened to this guy is just proof positive to  
me that the gaming community is so desperate for games that they'll  
be willing to put up with nearly anything to get them.  I refuse to  
to be associated with nonsense, so have withdrawn my support for such  
things.  I will *never* buy another accessible game, though I will  
continue to play the free ones from time to time when other matters  
actually allow such allowances.
I'm too busy to even sit down and play any of the games I already  
have, so for me it's not really a loss.  But besides, if I *really*  
want a game, I'll write it myself, then I'm not restricted to what  
others think I want.