by Wiro » Aug 26, 2001 @ 9:23am
Hi all, I'm "one of the other guys" doing the Argentum graphics together with John. I'm not part of the Pocket PC community (I don't even own one) so the whole attitude of mods and releases might be different to what I'm used to.<br><br>But I think it's funny how people seem to think a commercial mod should totally cut out Ionside from the deal. Yes, the mod idea might be fully unique but think about it: without Ag and it's engine you would have had to write an engine by yourself. The money and time saved in this is what you should pay a small fee to Ionside for. It's just the way it is, people do it for the Quake engines, the Halflife engine and the Unreal engine.<br><br>Even what someone mentioned here about them not having to pay Adobe for selling the graphics they make...you do! You pay a large ammount of money for the program because they know it's probably gonna be used commercially. You can pay 1/4 or less for a student copy of a 3D animation package like Maya or 3D Studio Max but you cannot make money off it. As soon as you do you pay the $16'000 they want for the full program. That's a hell of a lot more than you pay for Ag...<br><br>If a mod only offers new gameplay but not really new technology (like Counterstrike or Team Fortress) then they should probably be free (I did buy the commercial CS though).<br>If you are putting in new technology built upon an existing engine in order to sell as a new game then you owe the engine developers for having laid the base for you, even if the result has nothing to do with the original game. If you know it would have cost you more to develop the engine from scratch, then it's WORTH IT.<br><br>Okay, I'm looking at this from a PC market point of view so please bear with me.<br><br>By the way, I'm not speaking for Ionside here. In fact I don't even know them too well (I'm purely into this because John Lomax needed some help with the Ag graphics...I did most of the units).<br><br>Can someone help me off this soapbox?<br><br>Arild Wiro<br><br>www.secondreality.ch<br>www.warthog.co.uk