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Reply #16 Posted on: July 25, 2009, 02:56:36 pm |
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Also, it was originally going to be that everyone would have to pay to upgrade to GM8 unless they bought GM7 in June. The 2009 thing was an extension. Either way, it's extremely nice that they're letting anyone upgrade for free, because many many GM users haven't paid anything since GM6 or even GM5, and YoYo is an actual company, not a hobby project.
Game Maker should be free anyway; they should make money from advertising embedded in the game player plugin on their website, agreements to sell your game for a royalty, and providing support contracts or additional resources for educational deployments. Paying £15 once every few years wouldn't contribute a lot if they got those things right, meanwhile people could be turned off at having a crippled product. Yoyo have had one and a half years of control, during which time they have produced a single minor update and a Mac port (and released nothing yet). Given how fast Josh has rewritten a lot of it from scratch in his spare time, a team of programmers employed solely to do it with access to the original codebase could easily have completed a similar rewrite that brings performance gains and simple portability to all platforms. The website is a good idea but they've been slow to turn it into a revenue source.
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Reply #19 Posted on: July 26, 2009, 10:43:33 pm |
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Results from incompetence. Maybe they're expanding things as much as I am, and GM9 will support C++ too. ...GAHAHAHAHA
score_under-- We of the ENIGMA team do not support such piracy, yadda yadda, etc, etc. The ENIGMA team, in fact, discourages piracy, and posting pirated software here is prohibited... I'm having a hard time sounding all official on that due to the fact that I honestly don't care. But yknow, don't do that here.
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Reply #21 Posted on: August 07, 2009, 10:28:57 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
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There's like 9001 reasons to ban you for that post, but I'ma just sit and laugh instead, while a2h does a little <_< thing.
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"That is the single most cryptic piece of code I have ever seen." -Master PobbleWobble "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Friends of Voltaire
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