Expansion from Desatersoft

[Havoc04]

Originally Posted by robtek

Ahh, the trolls have arrived.

Time for reasoning is over, time to leave then.

Yep you are quite right about that.. There are a few about

Regards

[Doc_uk]

Originally Posted by Havoc04

I keep getting the sneaky impression that there are either people that work at that company or friends there off, trying to peddle, talk it up, justify the costing. Anyways i'll say no more on this topic..

Regards

That says it in one
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[Seeker]

Sad that people are so shy of being fooled twice.

I've had no dealings with this company, but in the past I've bought almost every expansion pack there was for the IL-2 series, and I always thought I got much more than my monies worth.

Think it through: It probably takes me four to eight hours in the FMB to come up with an interesting 45 minute mission, and that's with out skinning, historical research if applicable and simply having a fun idea.

Anything "non standard" such as some of the crazy racing maps would take me much, much longer, if I could do it at all.

What are you prepared to work for per hour?

And don't claim "but I give it all way for free", there was such a stink about mission makers being "ripped off" by people searching their own cache files for MP missions that 1C encrypted the cache!


Don't misunderstand me: I won't buy it, but that's because I won't spend a red cent on this POS until it's received some care and attention from some one who knows what they're doing, which by now almost certainly means mods, if Steam ever allows it.

But it's simply not fair to paint every small developer with the same brush. Some of them are very good and try very hard.

[adonys]

You guys are stubborn, and just go on and on..

Yes, I'm sure they are working very hard. I would also work very hard to make.. dunno.. a rocket.. but that wouldn't mean anyone would pay me trillions of euros for it.

And don't even dare to open the discussion about what hard work on how much money.. here in eastern Europe we're paid way less than you guys in the West, and most of the time for even a harder and longer work.

But that's not the point.

The point is, certain things values a certain amounts of money. And when someone asks way moore, without offering anything special, no one is willing to pay it, even if it is not about large sums of money. They will only pay for what they perceive as a right bargain.

The point is they will find 2-300, maybe 500, people to pay 30 euros for it, but there will be 2-3 maybe 5000 people not willing to pay 30 euros for it, but would pay like 10 euros. Now, do some math, and tell me in which case they would gain the most return money? 500x30 or 5000x10?

Is simple, and if they don't get it, then they really deserve the foreseeable outcome of this..

I've got a bunch of missions made up. Can I sell this for $30 too?

[robtek]

You can try, as everybody else

[JG52Uther]

On a side note, how does this work with 1C, as these people will be making money from CoD, which I assume is protected. Do they have to pay a royalty to 1C?

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

Do they have to pay a royalty to 1C?

I doubt it, they are just adding missions to the game and (probably) not licensing anything from MG.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by von Pilsner

I doubt it, they are just adding missions to the game and (probably) not licensing anything from MG.

I don't know whether they pay royalties or not, but some kind of business agreement concerning copyright and related rights must have been made, otherwise this Thread would have been locked very fast.

[ParaB]

Originally Posted by machoo

I've got a bunch of missions made up. Can I sell this for $30 too?

If there's as many missions as in the Desastersoft addon and comes with skins and printed goodies, I'd be happy to buy them