[POLL] WOULD YOU SELL YOUR GAME ON RMN?

I'm not sure how I feel about commercial games on RMN. On the one hand I don't mind, on the other I fear there is going to be a horde of really bad RTP games that people make in one evening and then just try to milk on easy cash. Would commercial games be subject to some kind of quality control (preferably harsher than free ones)?
Either way, I won't be making commercial games anytime soon so my answer would be option 4.

I guess I can remove my tinfoil hat then. Must have missed when that happened. Carry on, then.

If I could, I would.

I have a few games made that I would sell so ya, always good to be thinking of new ideas for the site to really make it stand out.

donation stuff is pretty heavily reliant on that game being an immense cult hit

like, dwarf fortress has a huge and super weird fanbase and that's the only reason it works for it

a donation option is something I'd been planning for my first couple of games just because I don't want to charge for them but I'd like to see where people price my work all the same, but

that's more out of curiosity than anything else. I'm not under the impression that it'll mean huge profits, and I wouldn't be looking to it as a serious funding method if for instance I had sunk any more money into this or didn't already have a job

This might be relevant to people considering donations! This was World of Goo's result when they hosted their first Pay-What-You-Want sale:

http://2dboy.com/2009/10/19/birthday-sale-results/

well i never said, someone can live with donation, with his first game. living purely on donation need a lot of time and luck. its an exponential process, its won't be linear.
dwarf fortress, was a side project for someone, he work on dwarf fortress as a side project. it was a hobby for him. eventually it become so popular that donation was enough for him, so he quite his job and he now can work only on dwarf fortress.
donation would never work for a real company that should meet his clients expectation, because its too risky.

a commercial game need a lot of work, and its aim is to satisfy majority of people. people here create games mostly because they want to show their feeling, their talents.

if a developer think about how much he will sell, he don't think about his own feeling, he want to create something that is good for majority, he won't risk, he will repeat what was successful, i think its opposite of what RMN is.

what i am saying is not set in stone, not every developer think like that but a lot of them will do, its how economic work.

now what price you want to give to your game anyway? when there is so many powerful company, with prices as low as $5, do you want to buy a old successful game from GOG or do you want to buy a rpg maker game? consider that only two games reached 20k download, when its completely free. if dwarf fortress set a price right from the beginning how many would buy it? I believe it would never had such a success, and it would never had such a high profile.

I personally don't think I could ever make something of high enough quality to sell, and it sounds kinda like a huge legal mess, unless you made everything from scratch.

I make games for the love of gaming. I treat it like cos-play. I would never out right buy a costume of a character I loved, cause I didn't put any effort into it. If I ever did make an awesome costume, I wouldn't want to sell it out to anyone; because I'd be ecstatic they loved the same person as I do. I'd let them borrow it if it fit.

Same here with RPGs, I play other people's games because they put effort into it, because they love it and I want to support that. I think throwing money into the mix kinda squishes the love for the under dog.

Also I'm with everyone else - the quality thing scares me. I've played games that asked me for money and I'm sitting here thinking "OMGOSH!, you actually think you DESERVE MONEY for this pile of BS?!" You'd need to have some sort of quality control, or sampling system. When I walk into a video game store, and want to buy something, You better believe I am going to check it out on the interwebs, or in a magazine first. Some stores even let me play it before I buy =D



P.S. Totally want to go play Dwarf Fortress now.
My eyes can't... handle... the tiny... window... guuhhh

its all about perspective.
of course my discussion can go both ways, i mean, what reason i give, can be used to argue myself, i just wrote my observations.
yes there are a lot of clone in rpg maker, but not all of them, there are exceptions, and exceptions rule our world. you can be one of the millions or one out of millions. I chose the second, also the first option is safer.

also remember, any opportunist try to look for exceptions.anything that we learned was because we were looking for exceptions, exceptions means we are wrong, we must change, we must develop. following the tradition can work, its safe, but we won't improve anything.
at least this is what i think :P

Okay, I'm going to turn my capital letters on for now because I have a serious question for everyone who's been talking about how this needs some quality control in place. Well, two questions, really:

First, why is it necessary? All the reasoning I've heard so far has been something along the lines of "it would upset me" or "some things don't deserve money" and, while I'm sure both of these are true in certain circumstances, they're not valid reasoning for this sort of thing. So why is it important that bad games don't get sold here, really? Bad games get hosted here all the time. If they're as bad as you say, then let people know with reviews and stuff like that and people will keep wisely away.

Second, and this one is important, how are you going to enforce it, and on what standards? You're all fine waving your hands and going "oh those bad games" right now when you don't have to name names, but can you put that to actual use if you need to? Can you know a bad game when you see it, and describe why in a way that can be applied in most situations in a nearly objective sense? What are your criteria? This isn't critique, where you can tailor things to what's in front of you -- this is an approval process, so you need to be specific and all-encompassing at the same time. Are any of you prepared to do that? Because, frankly, I don't think most of you can tell a bad game it's bad unless it's such an obvious joke that it's got bells on.

(Keep in mind that we already have slight quality control measures in place for submitted game pages, for the sake of making sure the page is fairly clear and gives a good amount of information. I believe that this is currently all that's necessary -- anything beyond that is so subjective and vague as to be practically unenforceable on a large scale.)

Thanks for your time.