1 hour ago, Roland said:In my experience, TFP draws a distinction between you being able to watch someone else playing their game and you being able to play the game yourself when it comes to monetizing. They don’t care that someone puts a video of themselves playing behind a paywall because that’s just watching and available to anyone on the planet whether they’ve purchased the game or not. But playable content is supposed to be free for everyone who purchased the game. TFP has put out many updates at no extra charge and they expect mods to be at no extra charge as well. They do allow authors to ask for donations, however.
Oh man, we all get it. We do, It was the way it went about. The PR is horrible. You're gonna get people who fanboy the crap outta developers and you're gonna get the ones that think everything should be free and immediate.
what they did though, was full on corporate bully. Instead of releasing a mention publicly, they once again (RE: console), hid all of their business because there is zero transparency (once again, not arguing they can't do it, just mentioning the consequences of) and just went and took action on people THEN mentioned it.
They just confirmation biased a whole section of casual players of the game.
This type of behavior is very damaging to a business, and yes, they can do what they want.
I'd 100 percent like to call out your phrasing " TFP has put out many updates at no extra charge and they expect mods to be at no extra charge as well"
IF they charged for Alpha updates after people buy into a alpha that's lasted this long, they wouldn't exist as a company.
That phrase is 100 true when the game is considered complete, runs well and all the original kickstarter features are in.
No man's sky can say that, TFP can't. Alpha updates aren't free updates, they're part of why you bought into an alpha. The game's not even complete. you can't call finishing it free updates.
And no, Mods shouldn't charge for access, we've seen TFP work with Modders before on this issue. If the developer of MM will full ignored the warnings, that's on him.
Love ya. Missed ya. edited because i put everything into the quote.