Confused with mod makers?

[merk_aus]

First of all I would like to thank you for reading my post, please note that I am not trying to start an arguement, am not taking a swipe at coders or programers I am just asking a question.

I spend alot of time at this website, reading through almost all messages, seeing everyones posts and comments, and problems and all that type of thing.

I have one major question however - in both the Custom Work Paid and Unpaid areas you see there are a number of threads inwhich have a large number of posts (when you could reply to threads before it was all changed around) requesting a hack and then having many people agree that the mod was exactly what they wanted etc.

I am just wondering why we have here like 15 different types of rating thread modifications released for 3.7.x, however many members are calling for and willing to pay for a brand new vbookie mod to be made.

Now I know the original creator of vbookie is no longer around, and the person who took it over made a change or two and then no longer supports it and refuses to give people to take it over and morph it into something great.

There are many members who would love to have a new one created same functions just updated a bit, many are offering to pay etc.

And not just the vbookie mod - there are plenty out there - so my question is why do coders/programers continue to make mods that have like 15 different versions of it however do not make mods that are different or actually wanted -

I just want to understand like I said I am not having a go at anyone etc, is it the time involved in creating something that would be highly popular, or whether it is just lack of knowledge (I dont mean coding knowledge i mean knowledge into the mods people want).

I do apologize I just thought if there were 500 people who wanted a certain mod and all are willing to pay is it not worth spending a week or a couple of weeks on coding it and releasing it as even a premium mod for $20 or something like that? wouldn't that make $10000 for a couple weeks work?

Sorry i really am just trying to understand why so many mods that are more or less the same continue to be released when ones wanted arent done?

Thank you all for your time.