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use of ad.fly for addons
Cynical:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on January 09, 2014, 05:48:15 PM ---Blockland's deal with Steam is a mutually beneficial business arrangement, meaning both parties profit and that both parties agreed to set terms. That's entirely different to trying to turn a few quick cents by throwing advertising links up on someone else's forum without permission. You're just trying to monetize someone else's site traffic and it's not ethical.
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It's not leeching like you're making it out to be though, we're monetizing our work, not your site, that's what I'm trying to say.
I'm sorry to say it but I'm pretty sure it's a general consensus that Blockland wouldn't be the same game without a modding community, if no add-ons were created, I feel safe assuming there would be a much smaller active playerbase.
Is that mutually beneficial? Like you're making someone who put 2-3 hours into a mod, and asking someone to watch a 5-10 second advertisement so they can get some sort of physical gain from their work, out to be an unethical leecher.
Ravencroft7:
--- Quote from: hodot on January 07, 2014, 09:14:28 PM ---I'm talking about marble man and bushido and those others. There's no way I'M doing that lol.
People do it for minecraft mods like 90% of the time.
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I doubt they would even get 1000
Ephialtes:
--- Quote from: Cynical on January 09, 2014, 05:57:09 PM ---It's not leeching like you're making it out to be though, we're monetizing our work, not your site, that's what I'm trying to say.
I'm sorry to say it but I'm pretty sure it's a general consensus that Blockland wouldn't be the same game without a modding community, if no add-ons were created, I feel safe assuming there would be a much smaller active playerbase.
Is that mutually beneficial? Like you're making someone who put 2-3 hours into a mod, and asking someone to watch a 5-10 second advertisement so they can get some sort of physical gain from their work, out to be an unethical leecher.
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Your work only exists because of Blockland - the same can't be said in reverse. Sure the modding community is important but that's because it's members care about the game and the community and not the money they might make if they release something.
If you're looking to make money off what you do, go do it professionally or find a community that lets modders monetize their work. If you care about Blockland and want to make neat things for the community then stick around and do that - but don't expect or feel entitled to compensation for it.
Cynical:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on January 09, 2014, 06:02:35 PM ---Your work only exists because of Blockland - the same can't be said in reverse. Sure the modding community is important but that's because it's members care about the game and the community and not the money they might make if they release something.
If you're looking to make money off what you do, go do it professionally or find a community that lets modders monetize their work. If you care about Blockland and want to make neat things for the community then stick around and do that - but don't expect or feel entitled to compensation for it.
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Like I've said Ephi, I'm not saying I'm entitled to it by any means, I'm just saying that I'd prefer to be appreciated by the moderators for doing these tasks. Having my add-on failbinned because I attempted to use a secondary site to monetize my work, doesn't make sense to me.
Now, as a question to more understand your side, what if the add-on page had two downloads, one that was ad.fly and a mirror to something like mediafire
Having clear labels on which one was which, and hoping people are generous enough to watch that ad.
hodot:
Cynical's got a point, it's not unethical, you put your time and work into something for the community and 5 seconds isn't much at all to wait. At least let them put down a direct AND ad.fly link, and if there's only ad.fly you can remove it. It's not that complicated, and everybody wins. Like cyn said, we're monetizing our work, not your site.