Hi Dark: Yes, I know. I merely wanted to point out that there are all kinds of reasons some of them in the mainstream market as well as the audio games market where the price for a product suddenly changes and someone who paid for a product can find it a lot cheaper later on. That is something that just happens and there is no reason in the world to get angry or upset about it.
However, I agree with you whole heartedly that releasing a game as freeware will make it available to everyone in the future which trumps any other concern. Since we have very few audio games compared to mainstream gamers it is a crying shame when a developer takes a game off the market and decides not to release it as freeware which basically makes one less game available for blind gamers. For us it is a bit of a big deal as there aren't exactly a hundred other options to choose from. In a case like X-Wheel it really is one of two games of its kind. Freedom Wheel of Fortune is free, but it is also buggy and a piece of junk. X-Wheel was a far better product, but is no longer available. So if we want a decent Wheel of Fortune game I guess someone else will have to reinvent the wheel and write a new game just to replace the one Damien took off the market. So not releasing a game as freeware has a pretty big impact on a blind gamers options which I think should be taken into consideration when and where possible. Cheers! On 2/12/14, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Well tome that happens with audio games too. > > I bought king of dragon pass for 10 usd, however it's frequently knocked > down in price, indeed A dark room that I bought for the Iphone before > christmas is now on a %50 sale, and an online game like Core exiles has > regular item sales each month where various things are money off. > > I agree that developers using abandon ware is similar from the perspective > of someone who has bought the game, but it also serves another purpose, > since it makes the game available to people in the future where as otherwise > > it would not be which for me trumps most any other concern. > > I can think of a good few cases, Eamon, supaplex, the Turrican games on the > > amiga, legend of the green dragon etc where it is the fact that games are > freely available that has let them carry on, be ported to other systems and > > even in some cases still be developed sometimes decades after their initial > > release. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
