Re: Poll for upcoming robot battles game: Text to speech or voice files?
@Oriol, saying "well people will crack it anyway" is not a reason not to make a commercial game if that is what you need for development, after all you do deserve paying for your time and trouble and while of course donations are great if your not getting enough cash donating from this community a commercial price might be a good idea, and look at what commercial games haveaccomplished in terms of higher quality sounds and music and other resources, not to mention extra time rom the developer.
As regards making the game donation based for those who can't afford it that is a legitimate concern, however as I said I'm not sure about whether donations will cover everything.
So, how about trying a different method?
Instead of making the game just an all or nothing buy or not buy affair, (with or without a limited demo version), why not take a leaf from games like Alteraeon and have some sort of in game extras available for purchice, things which didn't actually add extra content in terms of story or quests or the like, but were fun little addongs people might want to have. For example, if this is a battle game with different characters, have a donation option to get some extra characters to play as, although a person who didn't donate could still play the hole game with the default characters.
Perhaps have some purchiceable a minigames or an in game convenience factor such as a system to make a repetitive action less repetitive or expand inventory size or the like. Possibly have an extra side quest or something of the kind available, although not anything that would detract from the free game.
I'm sure you get the idea. I'm not speaking of a pay to get massive stat boosts that make the game easy, just some extras you could donate for. That way there is something to actually buy for people who pay other than just the warm glow of satisfaction, but people who can't affo
rd the game will not be too badly missed out.
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