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01-22-2013 01:04 PM |
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Originally Posted by dizzynation
(Post 2398621)
No offense, but as a indie feature film producer this is what IMDB doesn't like this stuff now, people trying to profit off products. Like the way you give "Lite" version, and offer other versions for sale! Come on.
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Sitting with someone that works at IMDB and drinking beers.
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Let's keep in mind, that it's an oddity that people do this stuff for free as it is. This is time consuming stuff, even for things that seem relatively simple, and generally done in people's spare time with their existing resources. Doing Lite and Pro versions is one way developers mitigate all that time spent in front of the computer and not, say, spending time with their family. I made money for several years with one modification and it just barely got us groceries for some of the harder months in the mid 2000s. I'm not saying that's everyone's case, but take a group of devs like DBTech. They offer dozens of mods for free, and several more full featured versions at a cost. There's no way they could stay as consistent as they do with the quality and development of their products, and maintaining a group of devs to do that, if they didn't have some kind of business model to support it all. Even the simplest looking mod can take hours out of your day, and days out of your week. And most of us still have our full time jobs to consider when sequestering that time. It's not only fair to sell a full version of a product, it's often the only way a dev will have the resources to keep the free version going.
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