Subj : Re: where did it all go? To : alt.bbs.allsysop From : "Bubblewrap" Date : Sun Jul 06 2003 01:12 am "Time Warrior" wrote in message news:MSGID_782=3a130=2f100_2EE59B6A@Xpresit... >Yeah, but alot of the IGM's, if not all, are still 16 bit and would not work >under the Win32 spectrum. Alot of some really good IGM's will more than >likely never get converted, unless someone cares to put the time and effort >into making a clone of them. >I can understand why people use cracks for software, especially doors. $15 >for a door, only to have to pay AGAIN for the next version is insane for >something like a doorgame. I understand that the authors put alot of time >into it, but if the prices were lowered, more people would buy. How about >some other packages too? For example: >$5 for the door and $3 for every aditional upgrade >*or* >$30 for the door and unlimited upgrades [snip] I agree that the end-user to sysop to software development relationship and dynamic need to be seriously reconsidered, especially since not doing so the first time around was partially responsible for the latest decline. Right now, it's pretty much "We make the software, so you play this game our way" - but this is not conventional software we are talking about. It's not software that leaves the store with one end-user, in fact, it's not software that leaves a store, and in the end, the intent is to somehow add to and encourage the growth of a community. No one person in that community should be expected to carry the bulk of the effort and/or monetary needs of that community. Since a community, with all the multiple facets that implies, should cooperatively support themselves, via effort, or money, or whatever else is necessary, they should be offered multiple methods to achieve this. If you don't take the community that will fill your pockets into account when you consider your registration/crippling design, then you are not a door game developer, and you most certainly ARE an opportunist, every bit as much as Bill Gates when he repeatly ignores the real and valid needs of his actual end-users of their software. .