Ace! Fire!'s price!is! totally! Totally ridiculous! Why! on! Earth!~ do! We! Have! To! Pay! For! A! little! Game! Only ! consisting!of ! randomizing! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damien Sadler Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:27 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Acefire price
OK. Let's get one thing straight here. Forget about the prices for a sec, forget even Acefire. Let's talk X-Sight in general. Right. What about Acefire preorders? Everybody messes up! I was being bombarded with comments, advice and suggestions. Confusions is one of the worst things to have to deal with as a beginner developer. As for LightTech's free games, that's their decision to make it free, just like it's my decision to charge for Acefire. If you saw just how much testing this thing has been through, how much money I've spent on it, how stressed out I got, not only from this but from all other activity in my life, people nagging and pressurising me not just for new features, this and that, but for personal issues as well, if I wasn't on such a limited budget, if this didn't have to come out of my own money, for your information, I could be thrown out of college because of my outside activities. Not that it probably matters to you all who buy and play or use, but to a developer, it's a lot of hard work. That code is 667kb in size, 21512 lines, and in my honest opinion I feel that your message was rather rude on the subject of mistakes, messups and high prices. I'm sorry Cory, but I think you need to sit down and try and develop a game or piece of software and tell me then what it feels like as a first-timer. All I can say is, for what Acefire is right now, and for what Dectalk Scripter and Talking Timepiece will be in the future, I've bent over backwards to add features that people are constantly requesting, and I said that there's more to come in 2.0. I've got about forty different projects I'm attempting to work on at once. When I'm working on Acefire, I've got somebody contacting me about Danger City. When I work on Chopper Challenge, I get someone contact me about Acefire. When I finally get to work on Danger City, someone else will come along and ask about Dectalk Scripter. No program is ever fully completed as we all know. Programs and games are constantly getting updated, and I've developed for free for so long now, buying custom made libraries, off-the-shelf libraries, sounds, music, and am sick of getting nothing back for it. That's how devs get broke. I can't even live, because I'm constantly working for X-Sight. I'm constantly roaming the country staying at friend's house and eating their food. I won't mention any names, but there's three people in particular who encouraged me to sell this game, one of them himself being a developer. Now I get a price/game release rebellion. I was told and advised to knock the price down. I knocked the price down, making the pay very low for me. If you'd rather I finished it there, developed for myself instead, I could easily flush the whole lot down the toilet, take down the whole site, and easily spend as much money as I've spent on X-Sight over the past two years on a decent Yamaha Tyros II keyboard while still being able to buy my own food and arrange to move over to the states to live and spend time with my girlfriend. I'm sorry if this message appears harsh, but I feel you ought to know the long and short of it. Thanks. Regards, Damien --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
