From your original post, Zappydearest:
as a ballpark, if 100 people would contribute 500$ each (50.000 $ total), thats a decent chunk of money that might fund 2 programmers for a year or so (em based on russian salaries being much lower then in the west). or it could fund 4 programers for 6 months
Please tell me where this doesn't mention hiring programmers, also known as devs (short for developers).
What have I done to try to reduce a disastrous outcome? Nothing. It's not up to me what 1C does with a product they have developed and put on the market. I have accepted the EULA that the product was sold with, and I accepted the conditions and terms of the purchase when I hit the buy-button in Steam. I accepted that the product was sold as-is, that 1C could do whatever they wanted with it whenever they wanted to without telling/asking me about it. Which, incidentally is the EXACT same thing that all of those who bought it did.
My deep and profound thoughts on how to improve the situation is to quit expecting 1C to giving out the sourcecode, and quit thinking that the community can fix it without unrestricted access to the sourcecode.
And again, why in heavens name should 1C provide a small office and computers plus access to any tools and/or SDK's that might or might not exist, especially now that they're in partnership with 777 to create BoS? Without being privy to the contract between the two companies, I'm fairly sure that 1C isn't really interested in releasing a competing product, or helping what would be a competing product undercut profits. Just in case you've missed the point, 1C is a business-company first and foremost, and in such things there's one golden rule: Money talks, bullshit walks. You, my friend, are out walking.
So no, I will not say thanks and leave. But please continue to try to make me.
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