Actually, the number of available games has nothing whatsoever to do with
whether a game or a number of games made by a developer should become free
for all to play.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update
includingquestionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day
Hi Dennis.
You are certainly correct that Liam has ownership of the programs being
their creator, however equally given the lack of size of the audio games
community and the lack of games available, there is rather more impetus
riding on each game than in a usual development setting.
There are less than 10 available audio 2D side scrolling games, therefore
the loss of one, especially one with the quality of sound design of
superliam is quite a major blow to over all availability. This is why in
the past developers when no longer able to maintain support or sale for
their games made them abandonware and distributed a keygen program, and
let someone else host the finished product. justin Dobemire last year
abandoned his games and sold a key generator, however now that those are
no longer available nobody who has not previously bought the games or the
keygen will ever legally be able to play them.
In many ways, it is almost more of a slap in the face to the community to
say "well nobody is ever playing these games again"
I agree that the authority rests with Liam, however given that he is
playing with proportionaly such a large share of the available titles for
access I do think he has some degree of responsability, or at least a duty
of considderation to his customers, and indeed to future players of the
game, if not on a legal, at least on an ethical level.
justin dobemire followed a similar deicsion last year. he sold a keygen
for his games, then closed his doors forever. This means other than the
people who bought that keygen, nobody can ever legally play his games
again or install them on another machine. This has understandably annoyed
lots of people, and I don't want to see Liam making the same error.
All the best,
Dark.
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