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Kronus Heilgar
Heilgar Trading Corp.
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Posted - 2011.06.15 18:05:00 -
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Edited by: Kronus Heilgar on 15/06/2011 18:05:36 Bad call ump. In a single move of greed and desire for milking just a little more out of the game, you just obliterated the 3rd party community.
A couple points:
First rule of lawmaking: don't ever make a rule that you can't enforce. Quote: Will services for in-game currency require a commercial license? Yes, if you require any sort of payment for your services you will need a commercial license
So you're telling me that you're going to try and make sure that every single player in EVE who does any graphics development and might use an image from the Eve image server pays you your $99? lolfail Where do you draw the line? Nearly every well organized corp in the game has some sort of database that links with the API for member tracking, and usually used for determining mining/salvaging payouts. These corps take a cut of the money their members bring in through mining/salvaging/missioning so technically they're accepting ISK payment for their services (which use the API); are you going to make every corporation that builds a system like this buy a commercial licence?
Quote: CCP does not offer formal technical support to developers or warrant the API in any way. It's provided as is.
Ok yeah I see, so let's charge for a service but deny all liability that it actually has to WORK in the future. Well done. Let's talk about community projects. We have countless services that are open source projects that have an entire community contributing to them (e.g. EVEMon). Many of these accept RL money donations to help keep things running. Who should be responsible for paying for a license for these? Or should you try and get everyone who contributes to throw in $1?
I'd just like to take this moment to state in a very clear manner what it is you are doing here: You are charging people who work for free to make your game better you asshats
Now to be clear, I completely agree with this idea for services that charge RL money and are looking to make profit$$$. But for free applications that require donations to cover server costs and kids who want to flex their programming muscles to try and make an in-game buck without countless hours of mind-numbing missioning, this is a **** move. If you're dedicated to this ridiculous idea, why $99? Even Apple only charges $99 for its developer license, and let me tell you, you can make a hell of a lot more money through a good app on the iPhone/iPad App Store than you can through a good app in EVE.
I think the problem here is that what you don't realize is the people who can afford to go to the Fanfest round tables and discuss these things are the people who don't care about shelling out another $99/year for an internet spaceship game. Next time, try talking to the average people who actually build most of these things and get the opinion of the realistic clients.
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Kronus Heilgar
Heilgar Trading Corp.
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Posted - 2011.06.15 19:20:00 -
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Thank you everyone who has quoted my red rage text, You are charging people who work for free to make your game better, you asshats as I really think it's helped to drive the point home to CCP.
As a developer myself, I have been rather shocked and frustrated by this decision. I have taken it upon myself to organize a shut-down of 3rd party apps/services that are effected by this but who never intend to make a RL dime. For details and to proclaim your support, visit the main thread
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Kronus Heilgar
Heilgar Trading Corp.
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Posted - 2011.06.16 06:11:00 -
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Edited by: Kronus Heilgar on 16/06/2011 06:14:20
Originally by: NeuroSpike CCP's new motto, Were not happy tell your not happy.
My quote of the day.
Fight for the right to develop for free! Participate in the Don't want to be charged for developing 3rd party services that fill the gaping holes in CCP's game? Participate in the [h2]http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1528705&pa |
Kronus Heilgar
Heilgar Trading Corp.
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Posted - 2011.06.19 09:05:00 -
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Stop attributing that quote to "Zero Bit" you asshats, that was my line. HERE. See? That's MY intellectual property and according to CCP's rules, we gotta protect that $h!t! ------------
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