Except that then people would demand to know what each company's working on.
But thou must!
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From: Dallas O'Brien
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:17 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Hardware keys was: Re: An Announcement Regarding
BSCGames
yeah. exactly. also, another thing to note. in the mainstream gaming
world, they don't usualy tell people something is coming out, till its
coming out. lol. or they advertise it, but only when its actually
complete, and ready for shipping, and they are just completing the
process of supplying the stock to all the shops, ready to start
selling on the day of the opening.
personally, this kind of thing is what devs in the audio games
community should do also. that way, it stops the problem of people
getting all wound up, then disappointed, when its not out when the dev
said it would be. also, that way, your more likely to sell larger
amounts apone sale, rather then people being a bit sdisappointed, and
the excitement has warn off. if a dev comes out and says, we have this
new game coming out today! buy it now for 20 dollars! people are far
more likely to jump and buy it. because if its what they want, as in,
if its the kind of thing they are looking for, they will likely spend
the money on a whim, at that moment. where as if they knew, 3 months
before, that its coming out, the excitement has had time to ware off,
and although they do still want it probably, they will question
spending that money, far more.
simple sales methods like that, is what makes the money, really.
regards:
Dallas
On 25/04/2013, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, regarding a payment plan most developers are not equipped to
take payments on a monthly basis whatever. Sure someone could send me
$5.00 per month via Paypal but then I have to keep accurate records of
how much each person paid and send out monthly statements which could
get to be a hassle. Especially, considering the fact that most games
are around %$25 and I figure most people can pay that off in one lump
some anyway.
As far as communication goes I think some people have a very
pessimistic view of game developers and their motives to begin with so
I'm not surprised if a developer goes silent for six months people
begin assuming they have gone out of business. We saw this with
Draconis when they took time to develop their new cross-platform
engine, and there were all kinds of speculation that Draconis was
going out of business, they have no new games coming, that the aren't
updating their games, whatever just because Josh isn't very vocal
about what he is doing from month to month. Then, when he did come
back with that dragon awakens message there were reactions like, "I'll
believe it when I see it." While I can understand their skepticism and
cynicism to a point that still doesn't give them the right to say so
and so is dead so I'll pirate it.
The thing that some of these people fail to miss is that some of us
have been very vocal on Audyssey, Audiogames.net, whatever and have to
put up with a lot of bologna from people too. If a game developer
announces he is working on super game x he will be bombarded by emails
with questions like, "when will the game be released," which are just
going to waste the developer's time answering questions like that. If
the developer speculates at a release date like it will be released on
April 25, 2013 then come hell or high water it better be released on
April 25, 2013 or there will be a hundred angry game developers
calling him names and flaming him to hell and back when there may be
perfectly good reasons why the release was delayed. We don't need that
kind of crap either, and that is why some developers choose to just
lie low.
Cheers!
On 4/24/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
well speaking from my experience as a former pirate and crack nut
there are a few simple things devs can do to minimise this.
Firstly no one will buy your software if the price is to high or if
it needs to be they are not getting what they would concider enough.
If people can't afford things and want them the only thing to do is
crack it and you get it.
unless you can pay in installments say for example the blindsoftware
package, maybe pay 10 bucks or 20 bucks a month, and you would
eventually pay it off vary few software titles for the blind actually do
this.
have promos and competitions to win free software but encourage the
gamers to participate and interact with things we have not to many of
these and these would improve things in the community.
Communication.
its a no brainer but even if you don't have anything even if you only
communicate twice a year or something at least people think you are
doing something rather than have you just go quiet.
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