Hi Will, In answer to your first question most if not all mainstream companies give a specific release date when taking preorders. So when I or anyone else orders a product we know when the product will begin shipping, and of course they have the resources to get the product done on time. They have teams of programmers working on a single product, usually can add over time, etc in order to insure everything comes out on a specific release date. A private game developer such as myself can't necessarily do that because programming games isn't my 9 to 5 job, nor am I getting paid for overtime etc.
That said, its not unreasonable for a blind gamer to place a preorder and expect a release date of somekind. Its what most companies do, and its not very fair to the customer to place a preorder and not get any indication when they can expect a return for their payment. Even if the release date is six months or a year away they at least know what to expect before placing an order. HTH On 11/24/11, william lomas <will.d.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > as i said on the forum though at audio games.net > > while i appreciate the demo, remember the first reason you asked for > pre-orders. you needed to fund the game, and how can you be guaranteed a > funding source from donations? at least with pre-orders you were guaranteed > a certain amount. sighted people have to wait when they order a title, and > so should we why should we as blind gamers expect it out at 1 a.m. on the 10 > of october or something? i respect your decision but now if the project did > get shelved as no funding to continue it you had a guaranteed funding source > from the pre-orders with donations on top for good measure so you may have > as we say here in the UK to use a saying, shot yourself in the foot. NOt > annoyed delighted to have downloaded demo to try under fusion on the iMac > but just be careful as the whole point of this pre-order thing was to be > guaranteed at least say 40 USD from each person so ten of those 400 dollars > how do you know you'd even get that in donations? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
