Why not free, with royalties on games?

[alessio72]

I always wanted to try RPG maker, but always scared to not be able to create nothing good.
For this reason I'm not going to spend money "just for try".
What if we could use the SDK for free (like UE4), many more users would try to use it, and if someone will create a successful game, with royaltyes RPGM developers could gain much more money.
They may also sell extra tilesets, characters, etc. to have an immediate income.

What do you think about that?

Forgive my bad english. ;)

[judeduval]

They may do what they did with vx ace. Make a lite(free) version which is free but limited.

[Avarion]

that is a different form of a business model, and there are a lot of developers who wouldn't like that - because due to the differences, those royalties would add to be a lot more payment for successfull developers.

Because that is the other side - if the program itself needs to be supported by only the successfull developers, and the company has to wait until they get something finished, the interests and costs add up much farther.

However, for trying you can easily use Ace lite as that is unlimited in time, only limited in the amount of events per map etc, but there have been successfull (short) games completed in Lite.

Or you could wait until it is on sale - especially the sales with the IGMC on Humble Bundle were extremely cheap last and this year. MV isn't available on sales yet of course (and probably won't be for some time)

[Volgurn]

every one have bill to pay, they work hard on this software also UE4 have a lots more user

has i know and i can do mistake but all user with free SDK of UE4 if they want to sell game they need to buy a full licence or if a dev want to sell there game without full licence the only right they have is share for free and open-source it

Originally posted by Avarion:

Or you could wait until it is on sale - especially the sales with the IGMC on Humble Bundle were extremely cheap last and this year. MV isn't available on sales yet of course (and probably won't be for some time)

yeah i remember that i have got RM VX ACE Deluxe for 12$ for my friend with this

[piecewise66]

Because that doesn't pay the bills?

I mean, think about it: How many people who buy this actually ever make anything with it? 90% probably come in with giant ambitions, create some stuff and then never finish. No money there.

And what about people who create a game then give it away for free? What then?

[wizaerd]

It's $80... Not like it's all that much... I spend more than this in a week on coffee & weed... $80 is nothing.

[GaryCXJk]

Originally posted by piecewise66:

90% probably come in with giant ambitions, create some stuff and then never finish.

I just got it to make free scripts and because it's RPG Maker.

[judeduval]

Originally posted by piecewise66:

Because that doesn't pay the bills?

I mean, think about it: How many people who buy this actually ever make anything with it? 90% probably come in with giant ambitions, create some stuff and then never finish. No money there.

And what about people who create a game then give it away for free? What then?

There one thing you forget. Experince is what your really paying for. That fact people make a game and release for free. Can make them look good when they put this in a resume. An if the game was good,it makes them look better. As for those who brought use it for a bit then they just got their feet wet. It still worth if they had friends or family who share steam account.

[wizaerd]

If I ever put this on my resume, I'd be laughed right out the door. I have a very long and excellent job list as a professional developer, but tacking on RPG Maker developer wouldn't help me secure a position.

[Saboera]

That would be terrible... One of the best advantages of RPG maker is that it's royalty free and has a low price for its functionality.

[judeduval]

Originally posted by wizaerd:

If I ever put this on my resume, I'd be laughed right out the door. I have a very long and excellent job list as a professional developer, but tacking on RPG Maker developer wouldn't help me secure a position.

You never know. Ask yourself this who would you take more serious,Somebody who made a game using rpgmaker,or somebody who never made a game.

[wizaerd]

Making a game has little to no place in a business oriented development shop. Especially making a game with this, where most of the work is already done. No what gets you a job in the real world, (i.e. not game development) is building databases and working with SQL and LINQ, building APIs, either RESTful or WCF. Memory mapping, network mapping, etc... Game development is purely a hobby, and as such has no place on a professional resume for an industry that has nothing to do with gaming.

[judeduval]

Originally posted by wizaerd:

Making a game has little to no place in a business oriented development shop. Especially making a game with this, where most of the work is already done. No what gets you a job in the real world, (i.e. not game development) is building databases and working with SQL and LINQ, building APIs, either RESTful or WCF. Memory mapping, network mapping, etc... Game development is purely a hobby, and as such has no place on a professional resume for an industry that has nothing to do with gaming.

It doesn't have to be job related. I'm talking about in general. The resume might be farfetch,but the experince is true. An that what matters.