Hi Milo.
I’m afraid I must disagree completely. Lots of people (including me),
bought lots of games back in the day that are now free, superliam, judgement
day,Bsc titles etc. However if the status had remained paid nobody would’ve
been able to get hold of them when they were no longer on sale.
The fact is software updates, requirements change and developers cannot
always keep their games uptodate with the latest operating system changes.
Of course, there are plenty of compatibility fixes and the like that mean
people can still play them, (indeed this is one of Jim Kitchin’s greatest
contributions to this community, since without him getting a lot of older
titles including his to run on windows 7-10, would be far more difficult),
it gets harder and harder for developers to keep them up to date.
This is why Q9 ended up being sold off to an unscrupulous hack , and why
games like the original Klango pirate memnory game are not available
anymore.
Contrast the situation on’ windows and Ios.
Judgement day celibrated it’s tenth anniversary the other day, and there are
people who are new to this community who downloaded and played it this year.
On the other hand, games like the pappasangre 1 and 2, Solara and soul
trapper which are barely 7 years old are now utterly inaccessible thanks to
Apple’s closed development system , people’s inability to maintain the games
when their life circumstances change, and the fact that the games can no
longer be bought.
And of course, don’t forget that just because one game from a developer is
free, it doesn’t mean that developer drops off the Map. Ian is still
producing games now which I will certainly support, and Jason Alan of
Entombed is going on to work on a sequel which will likely be bigger,
badder, better and also a paid game.
As someone who was around with Entombed’s development from the very
beginning, was a private alpha tester, contributed ideas and moderated the
entombed mailing list, I’m really happy people will be able to go on
enjoying the game for years to come.
All the best,
Dark.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Milos Przic
Sent: 27 December 2017 19:40
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all.
Hi all, sincerely I would not like this, and I will explain why, risking
being linched by the community.
I baught 3d vilocity and it went free after some time. I baught Entombed and
it is also apparently free. I also baught Misissipi and I think anyone can
play it legaly. Some time ago, people baught Tarzan Junior, for, Inspector
Cyndi series, and some other games. Now is it fair that someone pays and
someone else has it for free after some time? For example, I was excited
yesterday when I found out that the Inspector Cyndi series was free. But on
the other hand, I know that somebody else paid for it and has the same as I
do have now. Does the money lose its value just because the time passes? Not
sure. Or is it worth waiting because, sooner or later, everything will go
free? Since Tom and Jim are no more, the Windows audiogame community is
slowly but surely getting Balcanized, as Barack Obama put it today in an
interview. Speaking of which, I must remember a time when Charles was saying
that I was promoting piracy on the Audissey list. I didn't do that, but the
developers themselves do just that by being unfair to those who paid.
Best,
Miloš
----- Original Message -----
From: Keao Wright
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 02:12 PM
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all.
So does this mean I get to create an account now to go in to the shops?
From: Paul Lemm
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 12:05 AM
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all.
Hi,,
Just received the below email from the entombed mailing list from Jason alan
who made entombed, I still think this is a great audio game and thought I’d
share the email/news from Jason with everyone:
Hi everyone!
Sorry for being absent for so long. I'm essentially a slave to my job, hah.
I've had a lot of success over the past few years making casual games for
mobile players (unfortunately, these haven't been accessible) but I haven't
had a break out hit where I could dedicate some time for other games. I'm
currently in the United States away from my development environment in
Australia so it's possible I messed this up, but you should be able to log
in to your account and have full access if you didn't have it before. If you
create a new account, that should be automatically upgraded. I also reset
all the scores, so hopefully that is working again too.
The server I've been running this on is extremely expensive compared to the
ones I use today for my games so I'll eventually migrate it over. Maybe with
a new release if I can manage it.
Every time I get some spare holiday time, I try to dedicate some time to
accessible game development and I have made some cool stuff - sadly, none of
it release-worthy yet.
For anyone who has had issues purchasing or delay in communication, I
apologize. Due to the legacy nature of the game, I try to queue up a lot of
fixes at the same time.
Cheers!
Jason
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