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I just want everybody to appreciate how slanted this poll is.
"Do you enjoy having fun?"
OT: I'll join some other time since I actually do have a life now but in interested to see where this goes.
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Most skilled, professional developers who love making mods don't have all that much time to put into making mods. But if someone can charge a bit for making high quality mods he can put a lot more time and effort into doing so. This doesn't mean that he is just doing it for the money.
The game maker benefits also, because his game becomes more popular because of the high quality mods.
My thoughts:
- Introducing a mod market could theoretically improve quality (because of competition), but it could also create monopolies because some modders are more prominent than others.
- If the key system isn't effective, pirates could resell mods, thus allowing them to steal investments of time and willpower.
- If this was to be made, I think it should start off with a virtual currency to test the waters. Then if it does well, implement real cash-to-virtual cash micro-transactions.
Currently, modders make addons for the purpose of pleasing other modders and non-modders. Adding a mod market to the equation could drastically alter that relationship, for good or ill. Just food for thought.
No, it couldn't, since RTB is pretty much worthless without the network effect (something it would probably lose ASAP, especially in BL, if he started charging).
What is the mod manager if nobody uploads any add-ons?
What is the server preferences manager if no add-ons support it?
What is RTB Connect without users?
The main problem is this system wouldn't be sustainable in Blockland. It's inconvenient to most of the players and, if they could buy, the revenue wouldn't be enough to justify the work.
No one can or should help someone script an event that literally runs another game on a screen in-game.
No it doesn't.
I have that one in my signature.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=190789.0 <-- Dumbest thread ever made.
Stop fighting.
This is bullstuff, really.
You can never get this to work. We are a community of kids and teens and no one will pay for stuff, honestly, we already know that you want to make an economy of buying addons and p2p. It is stupid though. People make addons because they know some people with enjoy it. They don't do it for the money. Some server hosters today, want people to join their original servers. If they started forcing people to p2p, everyone has absolutely
no choice of a server they want, because a barrier creates a "you cannot play good server unless you pay, go ahead and play family rp."
Going onto the fact that people will scam. If you think that a server is good, you pay for it, and you get banned the next minute. If you think an addon is good, you pay for it, then you suddenly have a crappy mod that doesn't say what it really is.
Just wondering if anyone brought this up:
Does this idea not violate blockland's EULA?
IIRC, there's a part that's similar to: "Content created for this game can not be commercially distributed, on a pay-to-use system"
Any 'professional developer' playing Blockland that wants to make add-ons is already doing so.
You're not going to make a 'professional developer' that doesn't play blockland join, learn the language, and make add-ons for a few dollars when he could make better things with better languages that would reach a larger audience and sell them for more money.
what post? are you talking about YOUR post? are you trying to say you're an "experienced software developer and investor"?
or did you mean to link to something?
if it's the first one, that's a really funny joke and you should go troll somewhere else. but if it's the latter you might want to correct yourself.
