Ditto! Well done for making this software abandonware! I'm sure I will
have plenty of hours of fun playing this game which personally brings
back memories of my childhood watching Wheel of Fortune.
Regards Chris
On 23/02/2014 06:37, dark wrote:
That's great damien.
While I confess I didn't buy the game, I did admire how it was put
together and it would be a shame if it disappeared completely.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Damien C. S. Pendleton"
<dam...@dcpendleton.co.uk>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:58 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Reviving the Wheel
Hi guys,
After serious consideration given the immense popularity of the game
and based on the advice given by Thomas and a few of my former
customers, I have rereleased X-Wheel as abandonware. Like the other
abandonware titles, I have put it up on my games page at
www.dcpendleton.co.uk/games.
Again, I want to thank all of you for your continued support during
this hard and rather sad transition.
Cheers.
Damien.
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:12 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] X-Sight interactive gone?
Hi Damien,
While I do understand your concern I feel the best option is to make
the game freeware. Yes, a few customers may feel slightly cheated in
the end making it freeware works in their favor as well.
For instance, assume one of your former customers has a hard drive
failure, looses the setup or product keys, for one of your products.
Since you are no longer selling the game or offering it for download
they have to try and contact you in the hopes of replacing what they
paid for. If it were made freeware all they would have to do is go
ahead and redownload it, and since the freeware game is free its not
like they have to resort to a crack to get back what they paid for.
Besides that a number of commercial developers have gone out of
business and gave away their commercial products as freeware without
any backlash from the community. Philip Bennefall, author of the BGT
Toolkit, use to run a game company called PB Games. He sold a few
commercial games such as Tarzan Junior, and as far as I know none of
the people who purchased Tarzan Junior have complained about Philip
making it freeware. GMA Games, one of the pillars of our community,
once sold a game called Trek 2000. Now days it is freeware too. Again
I have heard no complaints from customers about David Greenwood making
it freeware. Daniel Zingaro wrote a few commercial games such as Super
Deekout, and no one has voiced a complaint about him making it
freeware either.
My point being I realize your concerns, but I think they are not
justified. Many people have done what you are doing, and no one is
complaining about them taking money for a few years and then just
releasing all the games as freeware. You aren't ripping anyone off or
cheating them, because times and circumstances change. You deserve to
be compensated for your time and work on the games, but if you can no
longer continue in that capacity then there is nothing wrong with
giving away the product for free in my opinion.
Cheers!
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