I completely miss the point of the message. It's not a matter of people
wanting it for free, it's the problem of the games not being available,
at all, after may. That ,and if people already bought the games already,
then how would you explain why paying $75, for all of his software,
probably 90% of which people don't want, and paying for the games they
already bought again is OK?
Also his message did clearly state that Blind software is closing for
ever. I'd say it's really unlikely he'll be returning to them - not if
he's just planning to kill the website and pretty much everything else.
As far as piracy goes, donno if you can call distributing software which
is for all intents and purposes unavailable through legal ways piracy.
On 2013-04-18 21:10, Draconis wrote:
Hi all,
BSC was a pioneer in the early days of accessible audio games for modern
platforms. There are a handful of companies and developers without whom the
industry would not exist as it does today, and Justin is one of those.
I'm disappointed, but not really surprised, to see some of the sentiments being
batted around on list. Essentially, like always, everyone wants something for
nothing, and never mind the time, effort or trouble that Justin put into the
games over the past dozen years, whether or not he has released anything new
recently. The shortsightedness of the community is to its detriment.
Kids won't be kids forever. Perhaps Justin is reserving the right to return to
creating and/or updating these games eventually, when his kids are grown.
Perhaps he just wants to be fairly compensated for the hours he spent
developing them in the first place. Whatever his reasons or movations, I have
no doubt that some of you will pirate the heck out of these games without a
thought to their creator.
Should Activision give away the Infocom collection for free? Should Nintendo
allow anyone to make clones of NES or SNES cartridges of the old Super Mario
Brothers Games? Maybe Paramount should give up the rights to Star Trek the Next
Generation, after all, they aren't making that series anymore.
Rather than calling justin greedy for giving folks the chance to do the right,
legal, and ethical thing and purchase games they may want before their gone for
a ridiculously reduced price, you should all be thanking him for the hours of
entertainment and enjoyment he brought to you over the years.
Personally, I'd like to thank Justin for paving the way for developers like me
to do what we love. I don't think it is him who is being greedy.
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