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i think he just means they can only legally go commercial if they don't contain rips, it's kind of...necessary.

author=Max McGee
All of the years I've spent improving my skills as a developer would probably have been better invested, in a financial sense, improving my skills as a promoter.

of course in a financial sense it would have been better invested in promotion but do you want to be another aveyond or laxius power? lol no. better that you honed your abilities or whatever.

really it depends why you're making RM games. i think the majority are doing it as a hobby for fun, so the pressure that we should be selling games or considered a joke is a bit..:/
good luck to you though if you want to make it big, max! and i mean that sincerely.

@DemonofElru
RMN doesn't even host commercial games, what makes you think this should be a place for money-making? if people wanted to sell their games this is obviously not the place to do it. i mean what the hell...just because certain people make money off their game doesn't mean we should be laughed at because we don't. as if people call RMN a joke just because it's a hobby to the majority of us. commercial shite is what that is.

i don't have a problem with RMN games going commercial despite it probably looking like i do haha, this just clearly isn't the place for it (right now at least).

but yeah i guess good advice for people who want to break into the industry via RM.
i think you were mislead by the title of this topic though haha.

that last part of the video is hilarious. really good job though! :D

author=S. F. LaValle
This may sound misleading, but we do have a role that's different than, say, IGN or Joystiq. While they are providing objective (lol) coverage and reviews for commercial games they have no stake in (lol again), we are actually supposed to be helping indie game makers peddle their games to the people. When you think about that, it actually sounds quite silly that we would host reviews talking down the very games we're offering to the public. Meaning, while being a tad more deceptive as you say by not discussing that middle ground of mediocrity, we are compelling more people to download games they might not if it had a 2.5 instead of 5 up/5 down (or, like you say, they may just read full reviews to investigate further).

this is very true actually, i hadn't really thought of it that way.