The web server remains up for now. Internet service providers don't leave web servers up without continuing income. On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 05:47:39PM -0500, John via groups.io wrote: > "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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