Quote from Maknyuzz: GoWhy would you get pissed? If you don't have money that's too bad. You don't have $100 you cant get collector's edition of SC2. Why should Blizzard be sorry about you and reduce the price? No such thing. I/mappers never force you to pay us $1 or $4.99. Never. Stop telling us what to do.
Funny you mention Karma. You don't have money. Heck yeah Karma's a bitch. Maybe your parents did something bad back then. There goes Karma, now u r homeless and poor, dont even have 99c to buy map...
I never said I was pissed.
The thing is, your replies is more childish than ever. While you don't have to listen to me, you obviously reacted in a emotional way, and seems to be the only person too.
I don't take this thing personally, I'm just telling you guys that things won't always work out the way you think it does, and I've seen a lot of games getting bad rep for attempting to profit before they even finish developing. Cortex Command really really enraged their playerbase. Why? Because the developer was intentionally delaying the updates and development TO MAKE customers buy the game, by misleading them to think that it will get more expensive once it's down... And they only updated twice... LAST YEAR!
I mean are you gotta sell the map and then provide updates for them? What if the updates for the map gets cut off at some point because you can't physically update or work on it for some reason?
When you put a game up for sale, you literally is selling out a bit of yourself to others as a service or merchandise and customers has the right to judge how you would look like too...
The main problem here is your attitude in the whole thing, you are talking like you've made indie games before.
Also, the problem isn't forcing players or customer to buy it, it's not even about the price line, it's YOUR credibility as a developer/mapper/modder on the line here, not the product.
And I know developers who has to make a living to live, the developers of Project Zomboid is one of them, but they at least have the incentive to be more professional about it than you.
EDIT: Angry Birds is a flash game made for the PC first, then incorporated into the Android Platform to sell along with the iPhone platforms and you get the picture. I'm talking about maps, or essentially 'games/mods' that you are creating within a already developed game.
You are recycling parts of SC2 into the game and selling it, that includes some of the vital RTS systems, even if you do use your own contents. In a sense, you are making 'expansion packs' for SC2 since it still requires SC2 to play it, meaning you gotta own SC2 first and then buy this mod or map for it.
Angry Birds is a whole indie game so comparing it is quite irrelevant.
thepumaman1 Authorit's just that a lot of people who play sc2 are kids, and online payments are "a bitch". that's the real problem.
1) don't be mean to poor people, as they deserve to live more than you.... since they have to scrape along just to live at all
2) it's cheap, and i honestly only read that last comment out of anything on the entire thread, but it's a bitch to have to run sc2 like itunes... itunes is the reason people pirate music
3) GO AHEAD, call me an idiot and then ragequit (or rather rage-log-off)
michael: we clear the area before we call for survivors....... mark: so we mop the floor before we spill blood everywhere? ......michael: that's an order