finally

Gandalf Parker · #1 August 25th, 2005, 11:14 AM

Part of the automatic downside for a "shelfware and advertising" publisher over an "online and publicity" publisher, is the payments. There is much more money put out by the publisher for doing shelfware and advertising stuff which has to be paid back before and profits are seen. And the number of sold units is hard for an author to find out. So there always seems to be a problem with what appears to be a popular selling game not producing any checks to the creater 1, 2, even 3 years and then it only trickles in.

Malfador might gain new recognition from all this. I wont knock his decision, and I wish him well. But I do think he might consider cashing in on the new player base while shifting back to the more comfortable payback system by doing SEVI at Shrapnel.

Gandalf Parker · #2 August 25th, 2005, 11:17 AM

Im not sure if the forums are timing as much as they are shamed into it. Was I the only one that pestered them over and over till they put some forums in?

Of course they might also have been waiting for Aarons answer on whether or not he was going to do his own or declare a fan site as the official forums. Strat1st seems to prefer it that way.

Gandalf Parker

Captain Kwok · #3 August 25th, 2005, 04:33 PM

One thing I've noticed is that I've seen more of us over at the Strategy First forum then over here today - or at least by comparing # of posts.

On a good note, it's already starting to attract some new players to the game which is good news. I've also seen a small spike in visitors to my websites as well as SE.net!