>>> If you distribute the game for free and put a reminder on the opening
>>>screen like "If you like this game, please, e-mail us at:
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>>>and say us, so we may continue developing"
>>I think that if you do this, you are quite close to the end of MSX (I
don't
>>want to hear it, Rieks). There still is some kind of 'symbolic' meaning of
>>asking money for your product, and I think it's a very important one. You
>>feel very satisfied if you release it on a fair and actually end up with
>>more money than you had when you left home.
>
> So, it's a money talk, and not about "users' response".
It's part of the "this was a real success" feeling, yes.
By the way, please do not pick out a single thing I said and use it as an
argument while 'forgetting' about all the other arguments.
> Ricardo' softwares are, sometimes, released in the fairs. Commonly he
>distribute something "beta" to some users (in the #MSXZone IRC Channel) and
>that's all. (-; The updates he doesn't wait to release, but the first
version
>sometimes he does.
Well that's Ricardo. But there is less 'pressure' to release it on fairs,
since when you ask money for it, fairs are pretty much the only way to get
it on the market. When you don't ask money for it, Internet is much easier,
and you will get a lot of response. On the Mailinglist though, not in real
life.
> I do not think it's wrong to sell it. I think it's wrong to sell it and
>expect the "open project" feedback.
I think if you sell it you also get lots of feedback. And when you show it
while it's under development (like Umax did with RoA), you get even more
feedback and when it's a good game (like RoA, again), then people are really
waiting for it to be finished.
> Well, I use emulator (for programming purposes, but I use it) and buy
>games. And two things that I hate on "sold" programs: Copy Protection
>(once I cannot copy the disk I will be in serious trouble if the disk
>become damaged) and almost no one works on emulators, due to these
>crappy copy protections.
Ofcourse there are exceptions, the 'real' MSX users who just don't have a
'real' MSX anymore. But those can buy it anyways.
And no, I will never make a copy-protection. Totally against. I think
nowadays I can trust the MSX-scene of not copying stuff.
> Note: I will continue buying programs, even with or without copy
>protection. You'll argue that people will copy and distribute the
>software if it's not copy protected. So I say: how bad education has
>this people!
I will not.
> Which really makes me sick is when I buy some disk without see what is
>inside (sometimes we have no other way) and see that the program is only
>a basic loader for some Screen12 images addapted from PC. And those disks
>are sold by the same price as a good game! Argh!
:) this reminds me of a game called "Guido's lost in Plantinus"...
The most terrible ugly-and-slow (and I really mean UGLY and really SLOW)
Basic game I ever saw. It was priced Dfl. 25,- at the beginning of the fair.
At the end, it was priced Dfl. 5,- (and I still doubt they sold copies,
although I really had to buy one because it's a collector's item to show to
my friends).
~Grauw
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