At 05:56 AM 11/18/98 +0000, you wrote:
>The main argument against it was this: if you sold it to a number of
>people for xx bucks, how are they gonna feel if you put it on a
>website to get for free, some time after.
>How would people feel who once bought Konami's Salamander for say, 50
>bucks, and Konami would put it on their website a year later?
We published Solid Snake English on the web only days after the release
(Tilburg '97). I didn't get any angry reactions to that. I think the
reasons are:
- on the fair, it was sold at a low price (10 guilders)
- the version that was sold included 2 disks with color labels and a small
manual, so the web download doesn't offer the same
To return to your example, Salamander is not just the ROM contents, it's a
box, a manual, a cartridge with a cool label and an SCC chip. As long as a
bought version has extra value, people who bought it will probably don't
mind about a download version. Just look at SD Snatcher, still sold for a
lot of money although a cracked version is available that runs on every
128K MSX2.
Bye,
Maarten
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