"As much money as possible"? Estates? For an audiogame?
For those unfamiliar with the economics, a hundred years of audiogame
sales wouldn't make enough money to represent the standard wage of a
developer working in the industry for the time it takes to write even a
decent title. GMA probably isn't even making enough in new sales to
cover the costs of running their web server. The idea of maintaining
support for even revolutionary games like those, solely for the purposes
of income, is outright laughable.
GMA still supports their titles. You can still purchase them, and you
can still get replacement keys for them.
Just because no new releases are forthcoming does not mean the games are
unsupported or abandoned.
The games were written in vb6, not BGT. BGT came out a decade after most
of GMA's games.
Finally, just to be excessively clear about this, aging does not mean
abandoned or unsupported. Aging means aging, nothing more or less. GMA's
games are aging, and buyers should be aware of that, but if the demos
run then so will the full versions, and the existence of the demos gives
new users all the testbed they need to determine if they want to spend
their money on aging titles.
On 1/25/2025 12:33, Jude DaShiell via groups.io wrote:
In order to make as much money as possible. These things have a copyright
lifespan if memory serves of 75 years. The estates of everyone originally in
the company can collect money from sales of those games.
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 08:36:03AM -0800, Sky Mundell via groups.io wrote:
Hello. Then I am confused. If they are not supporting the games anymore, why
is the website still online? Why hasn't there been any official statement
from GMA games? And if they were going to do away with the website and not
updating the games, why not put the games into the abandonware category? Why
not even release the older Shades of Doom 1.0 and 1.2 games as abandonware
so people who want to remember the older versions play them? Thanks, Sky.
-----Original Message-----
From:blind-gamers@groups.io <blind-gamers@groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene
Warner via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2025 6:40 AM
To:blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] time of conflict
I wouldn't recommend buying anything from GMA Games. The reason? There is
essentially no support and their games aren't being actively maintained,
just look at how many years it's been since the last time they were updated.
Some, if not all, of their games have at least one major bug that is not
getting any attention.
Proceed at your own risk!
Gene...
If it lets you, I'd just play the free version if one is available. At least
you are paying what their games are worth, nothing!
Gene...
----- Original Message -----
From: "mattias via groups.io"<mjonsson1986=gmail....@groups.io>
To:blind-gamers@groups.io
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:26:20 +0100
Subject: [blind-gamers] time of conflict
i maybe plan to buy this game but i'm not sure
the game looks like to complicated
sorry my english
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